Louis: Maybe you have heard or read about Jock of the Bushveld - a book by Sir James Percy FitzPatrick on his early experiences in South Africa. This is the type of dog, he had for a companion.
Our weekend is yet a mystery. Currently it is -14 and the island is closed with a severe storm underway. It raged and shook the house all night. Sunday the temperature will be +12. So Saturday will be spent shoveling out all the snow from today's storm and then perhaps flooding on Sunday.
Louis: Good grief, varying 26 degrees in three days! What an experience! That could indeed be a closed book, for now, indeed.
Not a favoured breed in the UK any longer - too many of them bred and used for fighting, which is, of course, illegal.
Louis: Here, they are seen as good house or farm dogs. Good for hunting and for watching the property, but also good friends to their owners and a stable character. I know that once they land in a fight, they don't give up - probably why they ended up in the fighting fraternity - which we don't have.