Jamie the guide dog

Ever since coming back from his holidays last month, our Jamie has been running around like a mad thing.

This is obviously a very positive development in many different ways. For example, given the amount of food he devours during the course of an average day, he really would now be a fat b****** had he not transformed himself into a mini Forrest Gump.

But the downside is that he’s very hard to keep an eye on. We can just about manage when he’s indoors, although he still pulls off at least one spectacular and, generally, physically damaging fall each and every day.

However, he’s clearly in much greater danger when outside and a fairly dramatic step has therefore had to be taken: we’ve got him a lead.

Vanessa carried out a brief road test involving him and his new restraint yesterday afternoon and it was a big success

But how long he continues to smile happily whilst having his style well and truly cramped is still very much open to question.

Feel free to click on to the video above if you’d like to see a short clip of Jamie (and his mum) in action. No pressure.