The lil bugger.
We got her from the dogs home. We should have realized when a tenner, as a donation was tendered, the guy gave me a fiver back. Even he referred to her as "the li'l black bugger", she was a wire haired terrier of indeterminate type. Trying to think of a more noble name, we thought to long and she ended up as just plain "dog". Sometimes on the lead she would stop and stand rigid refusing to go further, sometimes we dragged her and she got over it, sometimes she just snapped out of it an carried on. Off the lead she would be the devils own job to get back. But always came home, once even swimming the river to get home. One day she stopped and wouldn't budge and being in a hurry we left her on the path. Returning in a few moments she was gone....she was seen out on the mud flats, by a friend chasing sea gulls, each group of gulls ever further out. I think she just got stuck and the tide took her.
(Rrose Slavy, Sat 2 Feb 2013, 19:16, 5 replies)

Why was your friend chasing seagulls?
Very odd if y'ask me.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Sat 2 Feb 2013, 22:01, closed)

This is horrible. Poor dog.

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Sat 2 Feb 2013, 22:29, closed)

It had a evil streak a mile wide. Once it caught a blackbird, i chased after it for ages, it would pick it up and run away, until it got cornered. When it fixed me with its best evil stare and casually bit the poor, still alive birds head right off and chewed it like a penny chew...all the time looking straight at me.
(Rrose Slavy, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 8:12, closed)

Well yes. It's a dog.
Presumably with some strong feral instincts, but still. I think perhaps I'm finding this worse as I live near Morecambe and the idea of being stuck on the flats is horrifyingly common.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 13:11, closed)

I've been stuck in the stinky mud myself and i find it terrifying too. I went out looking for days and never found any evidence or witnesses so maybe she just left home.
(Rrose Slavy, Sun 3 Feb 2013, 17:10, closed)