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halsall,
We looked after a dog from Engineers St. A brown cross- staffie called Kim (Halsall).

Me dad was chopping firewood at the back of our house one day and the dog just came up , said hello. Me dad let him in, and fed him some liver with ginger nuts as a sweet. The dog must've liked it: he came back every day for about eight years till he he passed on.

Kim Halsall was never really our dog, but he felt like it. I've still got a few treasured pictures of him.
His arch enemy was an alsation also called Kim( Hoctor) who lived two doors down . In the early days Kim Hoctor would hide craftily behind a back yard wall for Kim Halsall to arrive every morning . then pounce on him.
Not wishing to get ambushed this way every day, Kim Halsall worked out which was our front door in BGL and barked at it every morning about eight o'clock.

I think me dad liked Kim more than he did the rest of the family. On his frequent trips to the Miners' Home in Blackpool ( he was very fond of convalescing, even when he hadn't been ill) he used to send post cards, not to us , but the dog.

Did anyone else do dog sharing in Ince?

PS
Other dogs around at the time were called Seargent Isherwood, Rex Whittle, Toby McDermott, one from down Ince green lane, I recall- Rebel Taylor, a really hard dog him with stump tail. A cat called Sandy Farnworth and rabbit called Socratese Unsworth.... and a jackdaw with a gammy wing that my mate Ste Whittle brought back in shoe box from a scool trip to Hayling Island called Jack.