With Lolling Tongue and Flapping Ears Theres Nothing in the World She Fears Adventure Fills Her Heart with Zest and Never Lets Her be at Rest

The title is taken from a three-verse poem written by my Mum about another dog of mine called “Chloe”. Chloe (pictured below) was a big part of my life during the 1980s and 1990s and was very much an outdoors-type “adventure” dog. She died of a tumour in 1994.Tess is so like Chloe in her ways that I find it slightly unsettling at times.