Jeanne Miller didn’t want to say goodbye to Franklin, the four-year-old Great Pyrenees she adopted a few days earlier from a San Diego County-run animal shelter.
Franklin did exactly what Great Pyrenees are bred to do. The large, fluffy dog patrolled the fenceline at Miller’s Carlsbad home and kept predators from the family’s chicken coop.
“You could tell he had a good disposition,” Miller said last month, sitting on her back patio at sunset.
But Miller’s Great Dane, Buttercup, wasn’t so keen on Franklin. She growled and barked at the new dog. Miller sensed an untenable situation. Franklin had to go back to the shelter…