Charley's Ninth Birthday

We celebrated Charley's birthday on Thursday.  The venue was the popular Angel Hotel in Beverley. We were grateful to the popular Paul Smith from www.hu17.net for attending with his camera, the results of which can be viewed via the below link.  The biggest dog there was an Irish Wolfhound x Deerhound and Charley gave him a special welcome!

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Now that we are retired and without a car to take us anywhere our best canine friend is Charley.  Some people with expensive pedigree dogs regard him as a mongrel.  We tell them he is the eleventh generation of our Jack Russells.  They were all mentally and physically sound and none of them cost a shilling.  We got the first in 1951 from a farmer in Smeeton Westerby.  He called me to see a horse one day when he was threshing corn.  As the stack got lower rats began emerging in haste.   His pregnant terrier weighing only ten pounds displayed such skill at rodent control that I ordered a puppy -- if there should be one for sale.  Two months later the farmer Mr Halden kindly arrived with a wee brown dog we called Pickles and a bitch which we gave to our local Doctor O'Reilly for his family.

This is Charley the most intelligent of all our dogs.