Okay, I admit, I screamed. At the other end of her lead Tatty was finishing off the biggest, fattest rat since the Black Death.
Owning a dog turns out to be quite eventful. That was her third rat to be notched up alongside the multitudinous other vermin and game she has despatched in her short life. I had pictured myself strolling through the countryside with faithful hound padding alongside. It hasn’t been like that at all. It’s more like being with an endlessly curious, easily distracted,
