(This letter is part three of a three part editorial.)

"I started questioning my own sanity. Am I blowing this thing up? Is it really happening? The police weren't terribly supportive. A female sergeant told me I needed a reality check."

It's one thing for Ottawa to announce tougher anti-stalking legislation. It's something else entirely, the women say, to get the law applied.
"Another policewoman said she didn't know anything about the stalking law, even that it existed, and would have to look it up some time," Elizabeth says.
She and Rebecca got their German shepherds from Mike on the same day, April 30, last year.
"He was 6 weeks old," Elizabeth says. "We started training at 7 weeks. When he was just that big, he couldn't do a whole lot. But I'd been totally alone and now I wasn't. I'd found these people, too, who knew what I was going through. I wasn't insane any more."
There are regular training sessions at Mike's place, which has a large obstacle course: jumps, mazes, doors, windows, things to climb. It's changed frequently, Mike says, so the dog can't memorize it.
"The dog has to think," he says. "They're taught to work through all conditions. Weather, smoke, fire, crowds, loud noises."
The day is unseasonably mild. And muddy. Diane's face is speckled with dirt as she finishes a workout with her dog Dexter.
"I'm a little embarrassed for you to see me like this," she says. "But we work regardless of whether it's minus-40 or plus-40. If this dog has to save my life, he can't say, 'Well, hey, mom, it's raining.' "
Mike and the owners call them working service dogs and regard them as similar to a guide dog. One goal is to have legislation passed giving them the same access to public places.
"A properly trained working service dog is the most stable dog there is," Mike says.
"They're not guard dogs," Diane emphasizes. "A guard dog works off hate. They hate everyone but their handler.
"Dexter works off love. He loves me and his only purpose in life is to keep me safe. But he doesn't hate people. He's fine with anyone who isn't being threatening toward me.
"You just came up and shook my hand, right? Dexter didn't budge. He knew you weren't out to hurt me. "I was in a mall and a security guard tapped me on the shoulder. I almost went through the ceiling. But Dexter didn't react. He knew the guy wasn't threatening me. Dogs can sense when someone means you harm. Dexter is not motivated by my fear. "But if we're somewhere and his hackles rise or he does a low growl, I'm outta there. I trust him. "The real purpose is to never use the dog in a confrontational situation. It's like having a black belt in karate. You don't need to prove anything. I'd rather walk away than fight."
Diane's stalker, someone she had been to school with from kindergarten, sent her dead roses on her 16th birthday. Over the years, he bombarded her with rambling letters and poems, often threatening, always weird.
"Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise to someone like me," he wrote once. "Black celebration, black celebration TONITE."
Another letter said simply: "Diane, I love you very much, more than anyone else can, and I'll prove it very soon."
And there were countless phone calls, including calls to her friends' houses when she was visiting.
"There was a notebook found, detailing my movements," she says.
The man went to jail at one point and even phoned her from there. "I was told that nothing could be done to stop him."
Though her stalker has died, the fear remains. Which is why Dexter - Diane has had him for two years - is very much a part of her family.
"My son is 6 now and he's afraid of his own shadow because he had to live with this, too," she says. "He was aware that something was going on.
"We were home not long ago and there was a loud bang upstairs. Dexter didn't react. But my son was really upset and crying and saying, 'Someone is breaking in.'
"So I sent Dexter upstairs and he went through the place, checking in the closets and under the beds. He even looks out of the windows. He came back and I swear he was smiling.
"So we went upstairs then and something had fallen off a shelf in the bathroom."
Mike says there are only eight dogs "on the street" right now, trained to protect stalking victims. But there are other working service dogs that can handle the task in a pinch.
Puppies can cost between $500 and $1,000, he says, and training can add several thousand dollars more.
But Diane raises money for training, donations come in and "I make allowances and concessions," Mike says. "A stalking victim may not be able to function in the working world and may lose her job.
"So it's an honor system. When they get back on their feet, they can pay me. The bottom line is we would never turn anyone away."
Diane warns that not all German shepherds and Malinois can handle the work. "A woman shouldn't just go out and buy a shepherd and assume it'll be okay."
She demonstrates what Dexter can do. Other dog owners act as a crowd, milling around, with one man wearing a padded sleeve. Diane moves through the throng. Dexter is relaxed, ignoring the bustle.
But when the "bad guy" lunges at her, the dog acts instantaneously, seizing him by the arm.
Stalking, says Diane, "is comparable to rape, even though the woman isn't touched. Victims of stalking feel all the same things as a rape victim. But people can't see why they'd feel those things.
"I believe that at least 90 per cent of the women who are murdered by someone they knew, even remotely, were probably stalked. If we were only able to prove this, would people take us more seriously?"

As you can see this is very different from what the liar Jerry would lead everyone to believe. Jerry then mentions the Ontario SPCA. I contacted them also here is his statement and their letter to me.
Jerry also states….
Another reference source. The Ontario Humain Society. There is a file.(end of Jerry's sentence.)
From this sentence Jerry would mislead the reader to think I am or have been charged with an offense. Here is the reply from the OSPCA.

Mike, thanks for copying the letter. I have no idea where he gets the information from. Have you tried contacting the Niagara Humane Society, maybe they will know. The number is 905-356-4404.
Wendy Sunega
Ontario SPCA
Investigations Co-ordinator
905-898-7122 x314
1-888-668-7722 x314
905-898-2167 (Fax)

You see once again Jerry you are caught in a malicious, slanderous lie. As I stated I am waiting for replies regarding the rest of Jerry 's slander. I have also asked the Attorney Generals Office to look into this matter as Jerry states that he is "Connected" to Law Enforcement Agencies. Let this be known to those like Jerry and Sid and Brigita, I will not stand for you making such statements and will seek to stop you once and for all. The only true criminal here Jerry , is you and your only true connection is to scum like yourself. My site is viewed on a global basis in all countries and by the boys overseas. To you boys in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Sudan…..GIDDY UP. Now I am going to scrape this shit off my shoes and go train.

©Mike McConnery-Baden K-9, 02/15/2006