I love Squish very dearly, but it drives me nuts. I doubt very much I'll ever have another dog that isn't a Border Collie again. Spike can be a difficult bastard but whatever he's doing, he always has at least one eye on me and I don't think I could lose him if I tried.

Example: Spike can jump the back fence at Grimmauld Place effortlessly, and in the two years we lived there he only ever did it once: that was the time Mum and I left the house without shutting the back door and he escaped to come looking for us. We came back and found him waiting outside the front door. If that had been Squish he'd have been two counties away before he even noticed I wasn't in sight.