Yes, isn't it?
So some of our two Border Terriers Scrubbs & Herbie (think herbaceous...b...not our naming!) in their newly handmade ropey leads.
Both are so different from each other that we are still staggered sometimes, even after 12-14 odd years!
Herbie = hyperactive crumb-hooverer, ball fetishist (easily gets gullible visitor-suckers to throw them all day for him to chase non-stop over & over & over again), skinny & little, on the anxious side, always awake, elderly, getting quite deaf.
Scrubby = big but not fat, fur so intensely dense that it's really difficult to find his skin, weighs a full kilo more that Herbie, always asleep (narcoleptic?), no interest in balls but loves playing dog-in-the-manger, guarding them from Herbie...which drives him to cruel distraction...
.... main hobby eating, closely followed by sleeping, but he is a surprisingly good "carriage" dog...ie, keeps a travelling group together by very effectively herding from the rear. Doesn't like the group to separate because that makes his job of guarding much more difficult...
....guarding from what, one asks, here bordering the peaceful Thames Valley, southern UK??? Stray wolverines or grizzlies perhaps? Rutting deer or bison? Certainly from Red Kites, now plentiful here after re-introduction, and certainly any odd mad hares.
Our thinking was along much less creative lines.
