Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Give a working cocker a few months off and it turns into one half of Thelma and Louise

Cydney, Twiggy, and chaos

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issue 19 April 2014

‘Can I go and play with Twiggy?’ If dogs could talk, this is what my spaniel Cydney would be saying to me every five minutes. She has made friends with the spaniel in the house up the track and the pair are beginning to show signs of folie à deux.

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