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Rustling up support

ON A RECENT DOG walk, I came across a smart and feisty terrier. I don’t encounter many terriers, so I stopped to chat to the dog’s owner, who told me that her dog wasn’t, as I had surmised, a Jack Russell terrier, but a Parson Russell terrier. If you thought the two were one and the same, you’d be wrong.

The Jack Russell evaded Kennel Club registration until 1990, when the KC brought it under its wing as the

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