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It Ain’t Just a River “We got Lucy, a female yellow Lab, at 8 weeks old. The vet told us then that she was aggressive and we would need to have her trained. We could not believe it. We tried basic puppy training, but did not want her to be so disciplined that she would cower or be afraid of us. Basically, we did not listen -- she seemed so sweet. “Now, she growls all the time. We used to laugh at it and think she was just grumpy, but it has gotten to the point that she curls her lips at my two cats and growls at us if we ask her to get off the bed or accidentally bump her from under the covers. “She raises her lips to the grandkids from time to time and has snapped at my granddaughter. She has bitten another dog, and two days ago she bit my cat. I always cross the street when walking her if another dog is coming our way -- she can be aggressive with them -- and I never let people pet her when we are out and about. “I have been reading about aggressive dogs on your website. I tried the “tests,” and she failed. She does not have any physical problems. She has been “grumpy” since we’ve owned her. She is mostly my husband’s dog, and she loves him. He is in total denial that we have a problem -- he thinks she is only reacting to protect herself. “I am now very concerned. Can we do anything to change this behavior aside from keeping her muzzled all the time, which I do not really want to do and my husband will not even consider? He loves this dog, does not make her respect boundaries and has no interest in training her. She has the run of our house and seems to be getting more aggressive as she gets older. I am now trying to keep the two cats and the dog separated, but my husband thinks I am overreacting. “I am writing for two reasons: I want to get Lucy the training she needs so that she does not hurt anyone or anything, and I need to get my husband to see that we have a problem.” Wrong order. First she has to get her husband to acknowledge that they have a problem. Only then can training be effective. When I called to tell her that, the first thing she said was, “I know it looks bad, but it’s not.” What could be worse? Canine serial killer? She wanted my help, but this woman has Casey's Corner: Turn to page 10

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a marital problem, not a dog problem. She has a husband who doesn’t respect her legitimate fears and favors the dog’s well-being over that of his wife and grandchildren. At this point, she needs Dr. Phil, not Uncle Matty. Most people who have aggressive dogs don’t want to admit it because they 1) think it makes them a failure and 2) think it means a death sentence for the dog. Neither is true. You aren’t a failure for having an aggressive dog. You’re a If you haven’t taken a scam class at the failure if you do nothing about it. And euthanasia senior center, do so. Or if none is offered, ask is rarely necessary. for one to be created. Out of about 20 people If wife and hubby were to come together, in a class, at least one has already been victimtheir household could most likely be salvaged. ized this way. Stay alert! Don't allow yourself to Lucy would be banished from their bed and signed MON.,Boundaries FEB. 11 would become a victim! up for professional training. be setDouble and enforced. semblance of peace would  P Please review carefully. check: APhone Number(s)  Spelling (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc. descend upon them -- and their cats. Barring Contact your that, Tidbits representative immediately Lucy absolutely must be keptwith awaychanges from allor cor * * * children, animals anyone who isn’t this man Office: 760-320-0997 email:and valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760 Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her and his wife. column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@ Denial, it’s at least as dangerous as that gmail.com. river in Egypt. (c) 2019 King Features Synd., Inc. Woof!

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From a Social Security perspective, your best bet would be to file for your own retirement benefits immediately. And that’s because it sounds like in another year or two, you will be getting widow’s benefits that will be significantly higher than anything you might be due on your own record. And the fact that you take reduced benefits on your own record has no affect on your potential widow’s benefits. So why wait to file? I can explain further with examples. In both examples, I will use a best-case scenario for your husband and assume he lives another two years. First, let’s say you take benefits now. You’d get $927. When your husband dies, you would keep getting that $927, and you would start getting $1,461 in widow’s benefits to take your total benefits up to his $2,388 level. Alternatively, let’s say you wait until you are 66 to file for benefits. You would get $1,066. And then let’s say your husband dies a couple months later. When that happens, you would keep getting your own $1,066, and you would get an extra $1,322 in widow’s benefits to again take you up to his $2,388 level. In other words, either way you end up with $2,388 in widow’s benefits. But in the second scenario, you would have thrown away $22,248 in retirement benefits. ($927 per month for 24 months.) So again, I say, why wait? File for your benefits now.

There is a nice older couple living next door to me. I will call them Bill and Sue (not their real names). They are both about 60. We have been neighbors for years. So imagine my shock when I learned recently that they aren’t married! They have been living together for almost 30 years. What two consenting adults do together is, of course, no concern of mine. But I am worried that Sue will not be eligible for any of Bill’s Social Security when they retire or after he dies. Should I tell Sue that she should make it legal and get married to Bill -- if only for Social Security?

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Don’t worry. The so-called “family maximum” does not apply to husbands and wives. As a general rule, it only applies to Social Security accounts where children are involved. This will be explained in more detail in the answer to the next question. But you and your husband have nothing to worry about. You each will get your own full Social Security benefits.

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Security account. Those rules are very convoluted. (For those of you who love this messy math stuff, go to www.socialsecurity.gov and type “family maximum” into the Search box -- and, well, good luck trying to understand it!) For this column, I will keep it simple and tell you that the maximum rate is generally between 150 percent and 180 percent of the main wage earner’s basic Social Security benefit rate. Let’s just say that in your husband’s case, the maximum payout rate is 180 percent. Because he took benefits at age 66, he, himself, is getting 100 percent. And the amount payable to a disabled child is set at 50 percent. So your husband and daughter together are already getting 150 percent of that 180 percent maximum. That leaves 30 percent that could be paid to you as a spouse (as opposed to the 50 percent rate a 66-year-old spouse normally gets). So you could do the “file and restrict thing,” as you called it. But instead of 50 percent, you would only get 30 percent of your husband’s benefit amount until age 70, when you could switch to 132 percent of your own. Your other option would be to simply file for 100 percent of your own benefit at age 66. You need to run the numbers and figure out if it is worth living on that 30 percent spousal benefit for the next four years in order to get the 32 percent bonus added to your own rate at age 70. * * * If you have a Social Security question, Tom

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