BRACKEN, did you live in the community of ST. Anthony or just in the general vicinity and McMusic thanks for the recognition as a person being a Newfoundlander and not a Newfie. I don't know so much about using it on the dog but that could be easily tolerated becuase how could you ever put down such a great animal. So any names could not be considered derogatory. I know none of this probably makes sense to anybody but myself so take it with a grain of salt.