My dog had suddenly developed a bad habit of loud barking about 4 o'clock in the morning. He was disturbing the entire neighborhood, and several people had complained.
One morning he started howling, and when I looked out the window – I saw that someone was throwing something at him.
I quietly went out the back door and snuck around to the front to catch the culprit. To my surprise, I found my next-door neighbor throwing rocks into my yard, and just missing the dog.
Of course, I demanded an explanation.
"I'm not trying to hit your dog," he explained. "My mother-in-law has been visiting us for the last two weeks and she says if she loses one more night of her beauty sleep – she'll leave!"
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
~Dave Barry
Elephants are covered with hair. Although it is not apparent from a distance, at close range, one can discern a thin coat of light hairs covering practically every part of an elephant's body.