Leti Baar and her dog Benjamin often walk near the beach at Lincoln Park. Benjamin is a Great Pyrenees and he's a pure bred. These dogs were originally bred to guard flocks on steep mountain slopes. "He's a wonderful people dog, said Leti," but he doesn't have a lot of interest in what you might have in mind for him to do. He'll fetch a stick maybe once or twice, but then he looks at you as if to say, 'What are you thinking?'." Benjamin is 12 years old and sizes up both people and other dogs pretty quickly. For more on this breed check the AKC page www.akc.org/breeds/great_pyrenees/index.cfm