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
Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy and Sir Gregory. This amuses Fern. Mist wants to be a working sheepdog more quickly and gets bored of her training as the days pass by. So when her first test arrives, she gets over excited and fails. She is given the walk of shame by the Boss which pleases Fern very much. Mist begins to doubt she will ever become a real working sheepdog and decides she needs more practice and rounds up some ducks that she befriends from a nearby pond, pretending they are sheep. With their help, she slowly manages to control herself and learns what it