…about this business of me being only half a Vizsla, and the other half a Lurcher—because Lurchers were originally dogs bred by gypsies as poachers, thieves! But the other day, when I raised this thorny subject with Laura, my Barbados mum, she reminded me that things are not always what they seem. This is what she wrote:
“Darling Josie Bell: We discussed this, didn't we? I know that 'Vizsla' was written on your papers, but that was because the vet here in Barbados said we needed to be precise about what breed you actually are—which did pose a wee bit of a problem, didn’t it? I could hardly say “Mother AND Father unknown”; we didn't want the whole world to know, did we? So we maintained the self-evident truth: that your Father was of Hungarian aristocratic descent, while your mother was a wild, beautiful, raven-haired gypsy dog with whom he fell passionately in love. You were the result of that ecstatic union. What do you reckon?”
Sounds pretty good to me.
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