DOG DAYS

February’s Pets column really struck a chord with reader Maurice Rooney of Victoria. “I can’t begin to tell you how much I enjoyed Here’s Jack,” he says. “At 95, with failing eyesight, I have many hours to thinkw of the happy times when we lived in Africa and our family always had a feisty, lovable Jack Russell. Enclosed is a picture of our last dog [right], Daniel Pumpkin. It’s true what they say: you don’t own a Jack Russell, they own you.”