Lipwigzers

A type of guard dog bred in Lipwig. Highly prized as guard dogs, they are trained to obey words of command. A lucrative export for Lipwig, only males are exported and breeding females must remain in the country.

As Moist von Lipwig discovered, they look a lot like the Rottweiler/Doberman/Lipwigzer/alligator cross-breed dogs that Harry King uses to guard his property. They are not the same however, a crucial difference if you have just got down among them confident that these savage city dogs will also know and respond to the command words of the Lipwigzers.

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If, as some have suggested, that Lip-wig implies a moustache, then a particular type of moustache - the walrus moustache as sported by eg T. Roosevelt - translates into German as Schnauzer, which is a breed of round world dog.

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