Gentle Beagle, or Junk Yard dog??

Okay, so it depends on who you ask for the answer to that question. Jack really is a great dog , and we love him, and he loves everyone.......everyone except our gardener Jose'. For some reason he can not seem to get along with him, one day I looked outside because Jack had barked and I've never heard him bark like that, well he had Jose' up on the table scared for his life, it was really quite funny, but not for Jose'. We told him it was because Jack doesn't speak Portuguese HA HA so we have given Jose' a few American sayings like, "Jack that is enough", and "be quite Jack!", and "I have a cookie for you Jack." So far it really hasn't worked, so now I really have to get a bag of dog treats so that Jose' can give him one when he comes in the yard. We will see how that goes. Jack loves our maid, Kellie, I think that it is because she gives him scraps while she is cooking, so I think the treat thing will work. We think that Jack likes it here in Brazil, he is always chasing the local possum that gets in our yard, one day he had it, thank goodness he let it go, but when we got him to come in the house, he smelled just horrible!! The birds that use our pool for a bath only have managed to make him fall in once, we think he has learned his lesson. Finally, the other night he went after a bat, a huge bat that could have carried him away, I am sure of it!! So the local wildlife have been a new and exciting thing for him, we are glad he has these things to keep him busy, since we left his other dog friends in California, Jen I think he really misses walking with Rudy!!