During the first leg of our trip from Caversham to Oxford, we twice spotted our three-legged friend Rosie, once outside Abingdon and another time at Sandford lock. Rosie was a three year old Yorkie who was deficient in the leg department by a factor of one.
Her owner Pikey Pete told us “She was a rescue dog who was born with a wasted muscle in the hind quarters but this doesn’t stop her from running around but this is often in circles.” In conversation with another couple of river gypsies from up North, the male of this parasitic species told us about a friend of his who had a two legged dog who used to walk upright on its two remaining hind legs...and then he woke up.
It is sometimes said that owners look like their dogs example includes Sir Winston Churchill who had a bulldog; Norman Tebbit a.k.a. the Chingford Skinhead owned a Rottweiler and Peter Mandleson who has had several French poodles as well as owning a Shiatsu.
Some people can take this too far, for there was a once a one legged woman who was often seen in the High Street , Marlborough walking a three legged dog, but a bit of self- amputation just to look like your favourite pet seems to take it a bit far.
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