Spot on Tim as a child I must have tasted nice as I got bit by every dog in the area and the owners did sweet nothing . I would go in crying to Dad . One day he said " I will put a stop to that", purchased the old paper Exchange and Mart and sent a cheque down South . He had purchased a Staffie , "once the smell of that gets on you other dogs will keep away" . He was 100% correct . But this puppy arrived at the railway station in a tiny cardboard box . Try doing that today Hell would break out and rightly so . Very soon it grew took over the area he was in charge and had his chums . The funny bits . We had a Dewhurst butchers 1/4 mile away he would gather his pals head to it hang about outside . When he spotted the time he shot in did a huge jump up higher than the counter . As above it was a row of rods hanging from the ceiling with all the sausages on . He grabbed a full link full and off out the shop and away. Bet his pals loved him . The chap in charge was a 1/2 cousin and he would come and knock on our door . Mum would tell him , "Put your sausages higher lad its your fault and no I am not paying for them " everytime.
The one thing that will stick in my mind was one night he wanted to get out the rear door into the garden and dad and I went out onto the rear lawn . He stood motionless for a good while, then a dog in the far distance barked in a certain way for a while it stopped and another took over then another till it was Champs turn . After he had his turn another dog took over till it was to far away . Dad and I agreed we had seen and heard something that may only happen very rarely and for a reason only known to dogs . Dad and I had seen it on the Walt Disney film Lady and the Tramp but thought it was fiction .
