Then again Easter Monday 9th April 10am/4pm we hope SOS Dog Rescue will be joining us, this will be our biggest day of the charity drive and we hope to see lots of you there and have a real carnival atmosphere.
We will also do Friday 13th April and Sunday 15th April
I have sent off my ideas for the Dogs Today magazine article on re-branding Staffies, I have to admit I struggle with this and also I don't think you could better Battersea's idea.
My son recently gave me a copy of 'The Incredible Journey' by Sheila Burnford. The story of a Labrador, Siamese cat and old Bull Terrier who travel home across the Canadian Wilderness.
The descriptions of all the animals are wonderful and especially that of the Bull Terrier. I know it is a Bull Terrier not a Stafford but the similarities are strong.
Listen to this :-" Anyone unaccustomed to the rather peculiar points of bull terrier beauty would have thought him a strange if not downright ugly dog, with the naked, down-faced arc of his profile, his deep-chested, stocky body and whip-tapered tail. But the true lover of an ancient and honorable breed would have recognized the blood and bone of this elderly and rather battered body; would have known that in his prime this had been a magnificent specimen of compact sinew and muscle, bred to fight and endure; and would have loved him for his curious mixture of wicked, unyielding fighter yet devoted and docile family pet, and above all for the irrepressible air of sly merriment which gleamed in his little slant eyes."
This sits uncomfortably in our modern PC world but maybe it is the world that has changed, not the dog.
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