A dog with a lot of savvy.

[Joe Chi Minh]

A brilliant item published in yesterday's Daily Mirror, with a photo, captioned "The dog who's not for turning". For some mysterious reason, it was not published in the Mail...!

The article begins:

"For Sandy, the Shetland sheepdog, left is always right, and right is always wrong.

The three-year old pet will turn in only one direction when owners Danny and Barbara Willcock take her out for a stroll.

Each time they attempt to go right, she either lies down and refuses to budge or runs in the opposite direction.

It means that instead of popping out for a ten-minute walk to the park with their beloved Sheltie, the couple from Crumpsall, Manchester, are forced to complete a circular three-mile trek"

(snip)

They think it's probably the result of some trauma she suffered before they got her from an animal-rescue shelter two years ago.

But it all reminds me of an item in the Mirror, many years ago now, about a dog who couldn't bear to see any representation of Thatcher. And it had a photo of him barking fiecely at a poster with her photo of her on it, stuck on a tree.

[nashville_brook]

1. ah HA ha ha! God Shave the Queen.

:) that got me in an absurd mood.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. It does make you kind of high-spirited when you read stuff

like that, doesn't it!

[nashville_brook]

3. the Sheltie does it for me too -- it's a frisky story.

:)

[TomInTib]

4. Brings to mind J Edgar Hoover who wouldn't let his...

chauffeur make left turns.

[PennyK]

5. Well, MY Sheltie...

...runs in circles when he's excited (herding behavior) and always in the same direction.

[NV Whino]

6. Reminds me of a horse a friend of mine bought

He was a former "pony horse"--one used to lead the thoroughbreds to the gate and then turn back to await the next start.

He turned left reeeally well, but not so well when asked to go right.

[Skittles]

7. that dog has her reasons

yes INDEED