It just continued to lunge at my husband and bite him from every angle.

If anything ever happened to any of the children or little animals on this street, we couldn't live with ourselves if we didn't do everything in our power to put that dog down.

I was screaming and praying out loud.

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Relax Mara,” he said softly, his eyes going super warm. “I don’t bite.”

I wished he did. I really, really did.