I don't like dogs, since I was a boy I have only ever had cats. You know where you are with cats; feed them, open the backdoor when their bladder can hold it no longer and tickle them under their chins. Nothing else is required. However with dogs everything is different; they can bite and you have to pick up their doings in a small plastic bag. I never did want a dog for those two very good and rational reasons. However, for all of our married life Alison has wanted a dog. I agreed (against my better judgement) that when the kids were older we could think about getting a dog.
Our youngest son is now twenty and Alison finally convinced me that we should get a dog. A few weeks ago we drove to Birmingham and met Dexter the greyhound for the first time. He is now settling into life at the camp and has been appointed as head of rabbit population contol. (trainee) He is already mixing well with our visitors and many of the children have enjoyed getting to know him.I still don't like dogs, but as for Dexter, that is a different matter!
