Flair

Alex and Flair

We were so pleased with Asa, and we had met many Irish Setters - who are all crazy and brainless - that we chose Flair who was an English Setter. Little did we know that English Setters are brainless too. But she was beautiful. She came into our lives in the mid 80's and was a young dog when we "emigrated". She was wild and disobedient at the start of the trans-Canada trip and mature 19 days later when we arrived. When we arrived in BC we did not have jobs so we had to think of ways to make a living. One idea was to put an ad in the Globe and Mail asking "Do you have a wild and untrainable dog? Send $250 and we will send you a solution."

The solution was to buy a small car, fill it with personal luggage so that the dog could not stand up, and drive from St. John's, Newfoundland to Nanaimo, British Columbia with the dog in the car. If the dog was not a changed and improved character at the end of the trip, we would have offered a money back guarantee. We never did this.

A lap full of Flair