Bentley and Rolo were returned. The Staffordshire Bull Terrier maiming machine, from next door, was evicted and the coast was clear. With empty crate and hall syndrome, it was inevitable that we would try the puppy experiment for a second time.
Enzo and Bracken are two Jack Russell/ West Highland Terriers. We met their parents – a white and tan Jack Russell mother and a Westie father. Curiously, the pups are brindle! We suspect that their father was nearly a Westie, rather than really a Westie, as he had sired previous pups which had also been brindle.
There is so little and yet so much to say about the whole experience. This is definitely the “once-in-my-lifetime” dog owning episode. Still, I am peculiarly taken with the whole affair. House training has not been the dreadful excerpt I had previously imagined; strangers now have so much to share; and the combination of sweet faces, no back chat and no demands for money, guarantees canine popularity above teenagers – any day!
It does help that we have plenty of room – both inside and out – a crate, a puppy pen and seemingly endless coastline along which to walk. It has only been a week (and things can always change), but I would recommend this experience to anyone.
