Ours was a friendship cut short by a mystery. Decades later, I still miss that border collie
, and there was little for Glenn to do except guard Peter’s chickens. He didn’t have much of a work ethic, latching on to passing ramblers and following them for as long as they would let him, or until he scented something more interesting. He once trailed a family of strangers all the way to their holiday home, two or three hours away, at which point the grumbling father loaded him into his car to drive him back. It was the only way to get rid of him.
Glenn would usually come when I called, and when he wasn’t scouting for deer or boars, I would throw a stick for him – so many times that my arms tired long before his legs did. I would cover 20-25km on a good day, and he must have done twice that. When he wasn’t running, he was barking. Often it was at water: he adored smashing his front paws up and down in streams and puddles, woofing his empty head off.
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