Growing up, we had a couple labs and an Irish setter. Unfortunately, they were all hit by cars at one point in their life, which caused us brothers a lot of grief.
Now, we've got a shih-tsu and a schnauzer-mix. The mix is rabunctious and loves playing fetch. The little one barks at him and tries to hang from his ear as he carries the ball back to us. She also likes to bark at any resemblance of an animal on television (cartoon or real) and sits on her hind legs like a prairie dog while watching tv. The mix used to never watch tv, but sit and watch us as we watched tv; now, he's started to barking irregularly at the animals on tv when the little shih-tsu pipes up.
It's funny that the shih-tsu loves adults of all kinds and is constantly trying to lick their chin or nose, but is deathly afraid of kids (and we've had her since she was a wee-one). Once, she jumped off our ottoman onto our schnauzer's back (I think she meant to do this, she definitely saw him standing there), but became enraged that he let her do that to him apparently. He always takes her wrestling around good-naturedly, though. He's also exceptionally protective of the little one while out on walks.