Best dog stories ...
"I was walking my old dog Blue back from the shops," writes a reader. "He'd had a lifetime of road smarts, enough so he didn't need a lead. He dutifully trotted alongside me, stopping if I stopped and keeping pace ... when all of a sudden he darted into a hedgerow. His front half was fossicking madly in the hedge for about 10 seconds, me wondering what on earth was he doing. Then to my utter astonishment he appeared with a freshly roasted leg of lamb in his gob - the roast was still warm from the oven. The only thing I can think, given the leg of lamb was retrieved from within the hedge, was that dinner had become a missile in a domestic disagreement. Off he trotted home with the best dinner of his life."