The film also features a fleshy oblong Martian guard dog, Woola, who has become a Vulture favourite.

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From this terrace one could look down to an area where a guard dog was once tied and there was a coop for chickens.

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The little robot serves as a combined assistant and guard dog.

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The Guard Dog also speeds things up by letting you crank drives through a mechanism that'll wipe them as they pass through, even if they're enclosed in metal cases.

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Like most drive wiping devices, the Guard Dog employs massively powerful magnets that not only render hard drives useless, but VHS tapes, DAT tapes, ZIP drives, and any other magnetic media to boot.

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The idea of doing a dirty Lassie movie is wittier than its execution in this go-for-the-gonads sci-fi flick about a huge guard dog named Max who becomes ultra-possessive of a feckless TV reporter (Ally Sheedy) after she springs him from an animal-experimentation lab.

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Maybe he should buy a loyal, sharp-toothed guard-dog first.

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Mr Berezhkov would tell a Stalin story, of how he had ordered a guard to shoot a dog whose barking had kept him awake.

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