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Thank you dogarty, that is Mr. Ross VII which is a little contrary as she is a bitch and now 16 weeks old. When the photo was taken she was nine weeks old. She is a Jack Russell of course and is already paying her keep as she has cleared all the rabbits and squirrels from my very large garden although she has made friends with "carrots" who is one of the cats who visits from the farm further down the lane.
Mr. Ross I (the first) was a dog we had when I was a baby who grew up with me and all our dogs have been called the same. When my Father was asked why he always called his dogs Mr. Ross he explained that the first one was a bit of a wanderer and used to disappear for up to half a day at a time. Although the locals all knew the dog and where he lived and the roads in the 1940's were not so busy as now and he was always brought home by someone even when he occasionally used to hop on the bus on his own and visit the local town of Clitheroe my Father thought it prudent to have a collar with an address tag attached. When we replaced her with another dog he explained he wasn't going to go to the expense of having to buy a new tag so all our dogs were called Mr.Ross. It was all a joke of course but the tradition has stuck and hence we now have Mr. Ross VII and I'm now a pensioner but I remember all the others as they were all different and had their foibles and personalities.