Well dear readers. We have a Liger
called Larry with four left feet! I refer to the opening of the The
Dangerous Day!
I had a racehorse who had lots of
stamina but four left feet! His coordination was all over the place! He would
win a Novice Hurdle by a remarkably long margin (called a Distance in horsey
talk) but he would belt the tops of the hurdles and when it came to fences -
well he was never going to win the Grand National - he could not jump for toffee
cakes.
Aunt Judith now has six dogs. You
remember Aunt Judith from the Anastasia adventures. Judith has always had dogs
but usually one at a time although we bred two litters of Jack Russell pups
about 25 years ago. We had a large Golden Labrador over forty years ago. We then
had Jack Russells and a crossbred Rotweiller and Doberman who turned out to be
the best dog we ever had.
More recently Aunt Judith has
acquired six large dogs which are three Rotweillers and three Dobermans. All six
are boys!
The three Dobermans are littermates
but ... they are not like other Dobermans as they are Chocolate in
colour! Yes Chocolate not Black and Tan.
No I am not having you on and you
will ask yourselves what all this has to do with Larry the Liger?
I will tell you. When all six dogs
were young pups I would look at their extremely big feet and I knew we were
going to have big dogs!
When I am off to the horse sales with
Aunt Judith in Fairyhouse, Newmarket, France or Doncaster shopping for young
horses I look at the size of their feet! If they are too big they will never
make a racehorse but will grow into a very large Hunter or Eventer. Perhaps a
show jumper.
Our Zookeeper should have looked at
the size of the Liger Cub's feet! He would have had some idea of how big Larry
was going to grow!
Liger Cubs grow into very large
animals. That is larger than a Lion and larger than a Tiger!
They are real big boys!
Fergus
Larry the Liger - the Dangerous Day now available to download from Amazon www.viewbook.at/B00DF8XZ0Q
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