The thanks I get

[Newton Hunt]

"seem to need that gentle rap on the snout with the tuning hammer to
quiet them down."

There are some nasty dogs out there, but a rap on the snout with
anything is dangerous because a dogs snout is fragile and easily
broken.  DOn't even joke about it.  The structure is a honey comb of
channels and  caverns.  How do you think they can small a million times
better than we, and our noses are fragile enough.

                        Newton