As a sideline my old boss used to deliver firewood. One regular's dog always bit his heels as he carried the heavy sacks down the path. Complaints to the owner fell on deaf ears so one day he ''accidentally'' dropped a sack on it.
After that it dived under the sofa every time there was a delivery and the customer never worked out what happened.
I like to write down these memories partly to show how attitudes have changed over the generations. I was quite shocked when he told me, he could have killed it! But I had a chuckle too.