Julian waved him away as though he were a stray dog.

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It was still the kind of place where a stray dog might deposit a human hand under the breakfast table, where an ox could burst into the dining room.

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"It may have been a stray dog, " he said.

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The calls to the 999 emergency number included a man reporting that "someone robbed my marmalade", a woman saying her sister had brought a stray dog into her house and a man stating that he had seen "a chicken walking down the road".

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The researchers said that rabies was more likely after the bite of a stray or rabid dog.

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There was another middle-aged boxer, and then he had a young shepherd mix stray dog that he had just taken on, and he was refusing to leave.

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Michael Morgan, who runs a car wash close to the scene, said he went to investigate on Wednesday after spotting a dog "too good to be a stray" by itself.

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