MY WORDS my viewpoint

You will have to go a long way to find a better trail dog than my Sasha. We got her as a rescue from the Pietermaritzburg rescue organisation, PARR, when she was about eight months old. She had been found starving and roaming the streets.

I have run with dogs for more than 30 years, and so I soon set off on a trot with Sasha and our other dog, a Boerboel-cross. As always, once we hit open veld, I let the dogs off the lead. Bad mistake – Sasha had obviously become so used to fending for herself, that she didn’t