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Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2009-05-17 05:24 pm

Heyer question

I'm rereading The Reluctant Widow and am wondering: does anyone have a good photo-reference for Bouncer? I know roughly what a Mastiff looks like, and by lurcher, I imagine Heyer most probably means a Greyhound-Collie cross, but I'm having a rather difficult time imagining how the three would go together. Aside from the part where Bouncer is clearly a Very Large Dog.

Since it seems unlikely that anyone out there actually has a Greyhound/Collie/Mastiff cross and has put pictures of same on the internet (although this is the internet and one never knows), speculation is also welcome!

[identity profile] coffeeem.livejournal.com 2009-05-17 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Still no registry of them outside of Baluchistan, as I understand it. So few have been smuggled out of the country, even by unconventional, care-for-nobody, attractive English noblemen.