Suki serves as a guard dog!

Suki showed her worth as a guard dog in the middle of the night. I awoke in the middle of the night - everything was very quiet, except for some persistant rustling of the plastic bags we had left on the picnic table. I could tell there was a big raccoon, or pehaps two, looking through our bags for a bun we had left out. I got up and yelled at them, but they wouldn't move away. I was a little scared to approach them more closely, because so many raccoons are rabid. Finally I went to the car and coaxed Suki outside and when she lumbered out of the car, she immediately sensed the presence of the raccoons. The raccoons fled into the dark woods when they realized she was there, and Suki accompanied me back and forth from the table to the trunk putting all the bags securely away. She seemed quite interested in the raccoons, and almost forgot that she was so scared of the strange campsite and the firecrackers. Even a cream puff like Suki has some ability to protect the family in times of crisis!