A dog with a lot of savvy. [View All]

[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.