Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 25 February 2012

issue 25 February 2012

We few, we happy few. South London-based working cocker spaniel owners, I mean.

We meet up on Tooting Common most days to exchange tips for cocker crisis management. The dogs play together as we have our group therapy sessions. Cydney’s best friends are Betsy and Mable, both black with white bibs like her, and then there’s Rusty the roan, who is the veteran of the bunch.

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