Once upon a time, a long time ago, Katie Whippet was a young puppy like me (although, she would never admit to it, and says she was born the size she is now.)
She was very naughty - and used to run off and not come back. Mummy says, she spent hours looking for Katie Whippet. Katie used to get caught in bushes, cut by barbed wire, fall in streams, and have to be rescued by Mummy.
But, Mummy says there was one incident which stopped Katie running off again......
THE ELECTRIC FENCE
Mummy used to walk Katie down by the river near to our house. Katie had found a hole in a hedge, which lead into a field - she used to nip through this hole, to have a run in the field. Mummy says, Katie had done this a couple of time, but because Mummy was getting wise to her antics, Mummy was getting hold of Katie before she got to the hedge. This made Katie more determined to get to the hole in the hedge before Mummy had a chance to get hold of her.
Because of this, Katie usually disappeared through the hole quite fast......
But one day, there was something on the other side of the hole.....
Katie ran through the hole in the hedge, and Mummy said all she heard was 'YELLLLLLLLP' and she turned to see, though the hedge, Katie Whippet about six foot in the air........
Mummy ran to the hole in the hedge to find a slightly bemused whippet standing on the opposite side of an electric fence. Mummy said, there was nothing she could do to get Katie back - so she started to walk away - and Katie jumped over the fence and came back through the hole in the hedge.
Mummy said that Katie Whippet had a burn mark across her chest - she was not sure if this was due to the power in the fence, or that fact that she hit it with some force and it had just marked her. But, because Katie has not got much fur, it looked worse than it probably was.
Mummy says, since then, the number of times that Katie has run off has been minimal.
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Katie Whippet in 2005
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