I’ve always been sensitive to the breeds of dogs people acquire, wondering often if the paw fits the shoe. Just last week this subject was awoken when the guy next door, someone who I’ve recently become friends with, yelled out over our back fence. ‘Hey man! Come check out my new dog!’ I stuck my head over; to be faced with the closest thing to a werewolf I’d seen this side of a Michael Jackson film clip. ‘We’ve named her Moon!’ he said. The dog was a fully-grown German Sheph