Belgian Tervuren

After the move they got a Belgian Tervuren called Toska, who is three, to help with security.

As a 37-year fancier and responsible breeder of Belgian Tervuren shepherds, I was very upset by the letter from a reader in St. Louis that appeared in your column recently.

I take great pride in the fact that I have produced many fine Belgian Tervuren shepherds, many of which are champions with lots of performance titles, and also those that are cherished family pets.

It’s where you might see one Belgian Tervuren flirt with another fruitlessly, the male in a Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” bib and the female off to Ohio soon to breed with a hot guy named Tripp, on whom she has had a crush since forever.

Or at least one dog was: Philip, a Belgian Tervuren working with Jozsef Topal, a behavioral ethologist at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.