Apologizing would have been the last thing I'd have done. I would have calmly and politely told him that I appreciated his candor. Then, I think I would have let him know the value of the dogs and then explained that if my dogs went missing from around this property I'd know where to come to recoup my loss. And that one way or another I would recoup that loss...then I'd have been on my way.
Scott, that was a good answer. What goes around comes around and sometimes it is double.
