The Dog With Two Lives

By Hilary Walker

Scamp is a Jack Russell of dubious breeding and an unacceptable color scheme. But he is determined to leave his hectic home behind to come live with my husband and me, and his persistence pays off.

He quickly burrows into our hearts and proceeds to embark on a series of hair-raising adventures, including a near death experience, a brush with alligators in Florida, testing the strength of lanai mesh, being a stowaway, rounding up my horse, and luring our Great Dane into a neighboring pool.

The rough-coated little dog is a smooth operator when it comes to charming everyone he meets with his friendliness and trusting ways, yet he always lives up to his name!

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Oct 10, 2010
• ISBN: 9781611529524

Hilary Walker

British born bestselling author Hilary Walker writes uplifting Christian fiction that transports readers into the healing world of horses. She lives on Hilton Head Island with two British bulldogs and her husband, who hopes she'll get interested in golf.  No luck so far. Instead she rides competitive dressage on her homebred Welsh cross gelding, and enjoys taking him on the trails.

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Chapter 1: Jumping Jack Russells!

He was the only puppy in the litter to walk straight up to us.

Could you please get me out of here?

It was easy to understand why he wanted to leave.

A few feet away in an outside pen, his long-legged dad was leaping up and down, barking frantically. His short-legged mum was racing around the perimeter of her enclosure like a rabid squirrel. And loud traffic was providing the not-so-background noise for his seven canine siblings, as they ran amok on the lawn like directionally-challenged mice.

The weanlings were excited, and a little scared, to be out of the shed where they’d been living since their birth eight weeks ago.

But this pup had a handle on things. He knew we intended to take a dog home with us and was Determined It Be Him.

However, his coat was—to put it politely—unconventional for a Jack. This was in the days before the breed name was changed to ‘Parson Russell.’

American Kennel Club standards require predominantly white coloring. They don’t accept a mostly black back, or a black face, brown eyebrows, and splashes of brown and white on the snout. The pup’s throat, chest, and legs were the only acceptably white parts.

But we didn’t care. My husband and I had come to find a pet, not a show