MAX FINDLAY isn’t famous, but 25 million people remember Fenton, his labrador, who decided to chase the red deer in Richmond Park. The moment was captured on video and went viral, as poor Mr Findlay pursued the errant hound, repeatedly bellowing ‘Fenton!’.
It was a reminder that dogs’ names can be very public, especially when carried by miscreants. On our little rough shoot, for example, no one recalls easily the host of well-behaved spaniels that have worked the coverts, but we all remember Piper, an ‘enthusiastic’ labrador owned by a major figure in the Arts world. His ‘Piper, come HERE, you blankety blank!’, delivered
