29 October 2004

Leave the Dog, Take the Brandy
The St. Bernards of St. Bernard looking for a new home. The monastery has a Golden Retriever now to do the work of sniffing through avalanches, and the search-and-rescue services use German Shepherds and Labs, because they’re easier to fit into the helicopter. The monks, meanwhile, don’t appear terribly fond of having the big slobs around, presumably more because of how much a St. Bernard eats and how much other care is required than because they don’t like dogs per se. No mention of the brandy kegs, but I seem to recall that was apocryphal anyway.

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