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Meet Leo... my soppy, dopey, affectionate, deadly predator

No sandwich, leg of ham, Flake 99, loaf of bread or tub of butter is safe from his marauding instincts

21 May 2016

9:00 AM

21 May 2016

9:00 AM

Leo, the Hungarian Vizsla my wife brought home unexpectedly last year, is approaching his first birthday and not getting any easier to manage. Caroline decided to buy him on the spur of the moment because she ‘liked the way he looked’, by which she means he looks like her. Not the face, obviously, but his figure — thin, athletic, muscular, big ears, big feet.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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