Years ago, when William the Welsh Springer I spoke of elsewhere was a pup, he used to go mental over his squeaky toy. On one delightful occasion he was having a rare old time rolling about the floor with it and squeaking like mad. Eventually he got tired and walked off for a rest. Whereupon his elder, Ben (a labrador cross), who had been lying there observing all this time, simply stood up, walked over to the toy, trod on it once to squeak it, then walked back to lie down again. Instantly William was set off again for another hour...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
