Rolo

Rolo.

How can I possibly have failed to devote a post to our hound?

"my left profile dearie"

"and my right"

"clooose uuuup!"

What can I say? He is a chocolate and tan cocker spaniel of the flopsy, slightly camp 'show' variety rather than the hard working 'field' kind. His demeanour vaguely reminds me of Graeme Norton.

We got him as a puppy three years ago. The eyebrows were the clincher.  (His eyelashes are pretty impressive too!)

This is him on his bed in the kitchen, looking improbably shy.

but this is where he likes to be - on the sofa in our sitting room, here wrapped up in faux fur by our concerned youngest when the heating broke!

He loves long walks, parmesan cheese, roast chicken and us, quite possibly in that order. His favourite pastime is rabbit hunting in the Norfolk sand dunes, but he would run howling if he ever came face to face with the burrow owner!

 




He is easy going and madly affectionate. His flappy ears rotate when he runs and swing rakishly when he looks suddenly to the left or right. He tries to smile and his lip gets kind of hooked up on his tooth on one side and he can't understand why we are crying with laughter. He often looks suprised and often entirely ridiculous. Always the slightly sad, spaniel eyes that melt your heart. He is always up for a cuddle. We simply cannot imagine life without him.