The dog: Man's best friend, arbiter of true value

Dog destroys Elvis' teddy bear at museum - Boston.com: I sympathize and side with the dog. I feel this way a lot of the time, too, but moreso around "Sweet Nothings" and other schmaltzy ceramic lines. Go Barney. Yay. This story featuring "the dog as arbiter of true value" helps put things in perspective.

"LONDON --A guard dog has ripped apart a collection of rare teddy bears, including one once owned by Elvis Presley, during a rampage at a children's museum.
'He just went berserk,' said Daniel Medley, general manager of the Wookey Hole Caves near Wells, England, where hundreds of bears were chewed up Tuesday night by the 6-year-old Doberman pinscher named Barney.

Barney ripped the head off a brown stuffed bear once owned by the young Presley during the attack, leaving fluffy stuffing and bits of bears' limbs and heads on the museum floor. The bear, named Mabel, was made in 1909 by the German manufacturer Steiff."