Beginnings

Winnie has opened whole new vista's for me. Because of Winnie I had to escape proof my house. Because of Winnie I have learnt how to fit stair-gates to  a listed house's doorways, each of which is very individual and not normally suited to a metric sized standard stair-gate. Because of Winnie I discovered in the first fortnight of ownership that it is possible for a Jack Russell to eat a sofa - even a very tiny Jack Russell. The list is endless....

Because of Winnie I am learning how to blog. I have been writing of Winnie's many exploits on Facebook for a while now. As a result my friends have 'persuaded' me to write a blog about the pleasures and pitfalls of sharing your house with a terrier and not just any terrier, but a small terrier.

No one every explained to me that small terrier's are TARDIS dogs - much bigger on the inside than the outside. In a small terrier everything is distilled and concentrated - they can be very sweet, cute, whatever you like to call it. They can also be very, very wicked. Most are endowed with a brain much larger than their size would suggest. Their ingenuity and general ability to think 'outside the box' (figuratively and literally!) will often catch you unawares. Terrier owning is not for the faint hearted and small terrier owning is probably best left to the fool hardy....and certainly to those who are prepared to both make a fool of themselves and to be made a fool of.

So I hope you'll enjoy this blog and perhaps recognise some of your own dogs exploits in those that Winnie gets up to. For those thinking about owning a terrier, perhaps this blog might help you prepare for the inevitable mayhem that will follow....