DOG FOOD

I named our dog ‘Rover’ which might seem to be a common name for a dog, but how many dogs have you heard of being called Rover?

Mum used to feed Rover, he had a can of dog food every day and he also ate everything that we left.

Rover became a very large and rather well fed dog.

Mum had a tendency to feed dogs up, all our dogs have been ‘well fed’ ever since.

Before we had Rover one of the neighbours had a little dog, he was called Prince and he used to come to our back door for scraps, I remember that he was particularly fond of sausages, mum used to save a few for him. I bet dad would have gone crackers if he had known that mum was feeding the neighbour’s dog.

Mum did have a history of deeding up other people’s dogs. Even before I was born mum used to feed a dog that came to her back door.

She was actually buying a tin of meat for it every day because she felt so sorry for the poor thing, it was so thin that all it’s ribs were showing and you could see it’s spine poking through, it was all skin and bone.

So mum started to feed it up.

When the owner found out he came round and gave mum a piece of his mind.

He was not a happy man.

Mum had been feeding his prize Greyhound and it had been loosing races, so he had been loosing money.