Like all terriers, Staffords are diggers, so it is important to reinforce fences by embedding them in concrete or burying chicken wire at the bottom to prevent escapes.

Hypermuscle activity, for whatever reason, can change this normal relationship. In the resting position, the intrarticular pressure is very low.

I was a lot more apt to queer it than help it.

The room as a whole conveyed a sense of refined, contemporary taste, as summed up elegantly by Wyler: “The ‘antiquitization’, the ‘graecization’ and the ‘orientalization’ of the surroundings are certainly cultivated references that heighten the artistic quality of the décor and of the owner”.