Thanks again for so many helpful and kind replies.
I don't think that there is any vice in the little dog. She is brilliant with children [as encountered on Tuesday evening's walk round the Bromyard playing fields and children's playground], is perfect with other dogs, and properly polite with adults. I suspect that the lady who is letting me have the dog has been given the job of rehoming her for the lazy owner. And I rather suspect that my friend has had quite a bit to do with the very good socialisation.
I have a feeling that given proper exercise and a bit of positivity from me training her to pee outside is not going to be particularly difficult. My carpets are not posh!
She is not nervous, and typical for a happy terrier she certainly is sprightly and trots like a real swank! Like a horse doing a high trot, which can be almost as fast as a canter. Really extending her front legs forward. Tail straight up. Happy as happy could be!
She has been tail docked, and that might put some people off. But I am not responsible for what happened, and really it makes no difference by now.
I am not one for insurance. I'd rather save the money, which is my natural way in any case. The last five years has been tough, but I worked right through Covid in a petrol station. And of course I actually did get it early on in March 2020, before the mask-mandate. Twelve months ago I went self-employed and have gradually built myself up a little money-wise in the mean time.
Terriers are not overly bred dogs and this one originated from Gypsies, so unlikely to be highly bred. I am not sure Patterdales are really a breed as such, but more a type. Like Welsh Collies, and these are not even recognised as a breed by Crufts. The breed standard for Welsh Collies is amusingly said to be "Good brain, Good working dog ... Breed it!" Consequently there is no standard colour and the eyes may be those odd nearly white or grey ones or the normal dark brown. The coats may be short or long [but they are all double coated - grooming nightmare] liver-brown, or black, usually with white markings, but also tricolour, as black, white and tan. They all have longish legs and broad heads though. Patterdales seem to vary almost as much.
I considered the caution about naming her after my Grandfather's last bitch Welsh Collie, who outlived him. Flirty. To me Flirty was a nice kindly, if rather shy, dog, not some kind of girl! So depending how we get on, I'll name her after a Jack Russell from my childhood! Midge ... or possibly after another terrier that adored me owned by musical friends. Juno.
Which do you think is best Midge, Juno or Loo?
Only a day and a half to go!
Best wishes from George