Great stories!

I hadn't heard of the Patterdale terrier. I looked it up.

We rescued a German shorthaired pointer when I was in high school who lived with mom long after all of us had gone off to college. The thinking was the dog been dumped because she was sick--distemper, bronchits, pneumonia, before she got over all of it. But she pulled through and was a great dog. We also had cats, and they all got along well. People used to slow down when they drove past the house if the dog and the main cat (a white angora from a friend's litter) were playing. They would dart around the shrubbery, clearly enjoying themselves.

When the cat died (both were quite elderly) Mom buried her in the garden outside the kitchen window and put an azelea at that spot. After that on sunny days she'd look out and see the dog sleeping on that spot.

SRS