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 remember us with the affecshun we feel for you." The tone of the strip is reminiscent of Charles M. Schulz's final "Peanuts" strip, from which the Perishers strip took its inspiration. The strip was initially replaced by the short-lived "Ronaldinho", during the then-ongoing World Cup. After the tournament, the American "Pooch Cafe" appeared as a more permanent replacement. After a gap of nearly four years, the original cartoon strip returned to the "Daily Mirror" as reprints, on 22 February 2010. Additionally, over the years there have been a number of cheaply printed reprint collections in paperback, all of which went