The Perishers his bathtime struggles with Wellington usually turn into epic battles. Boot's favourite food appears to be links of sausages, and his attempts to consume these in advance of Wellington provide the basis of many episodes. Boot was originally drawn with a short tail (on one occasion he met a bob-tailed sheepdog, and on hearing the name decided to call his own tail Fred), but Maurice Dodd later discovered that real Old English Sheepdogs' tails are docked, and so over the course of several years Collins drew his tail shorter and shorter until it vanished altogether – Boot still appears completely
The Perishers nails and he is thick as a plank. Maisie bears resemblance to Lucy van Pelt in Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" strip. The British actress Maisie Williams was christened Margaret but has always been known as Maisie, after the character. A toddler, possibly named after the "Baby Dumpling" character in the US comic strip "Blondie". In the early days of the strip he did not speak, because he knew that once he started he would be expected to keep talking all the time. When he finally began to speak he did so in lower-case letters. In the early days of the strip