From: "Phil Payne" 

Our bitch - Tessa - used to realise she was going to the vet before we even
caught her.

If the kids were arguing, she'd push between them.  If anyone was ill, she
wouldn't leave the bedside except to go outside - then straight back
upstairs without eating.

And. like another dog I heard of, she persistently licked one of my
ex-wife's moles - on her forearm.

She went to the doctor and he didn't even bother with a biopsy - straight
out, so we never found out if it was malignant.

I can't stand cats, or rather the practice of keeping them.  I regard them
as subsidised song-bird slaughterers - fully fed when they go out and
killing for fun.  I'd rather hear the dawn chorus.  There are around eight
cats in the surrounding houses, and we have almost silent dawns.

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