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  • The Field

    Louise Harvey-Miller

    Mar 11, 2021 3 minutes

    N 1 May 2015, I was at my desk in London watching my phone ping with updates of the whelping taking place at home in Scotland. Two of my husband’s pack of cockers were having babies – why both girls were producing at the same time is another story. Flick was having trouble, and two of the 12 were stillborn. For the family to survive, nature would have jettisoned the runt but Nick wasn’t going to lose another, so,

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