Trick and treat

PARENTS are invariably blind to the faults of offspring, so when I’m asked if there’s any chance Lola might be trained to replicate the tricks and antics of Uggie, the breakout star of The Artist, I’m wildly indignant.

“Why my Lola could have directed the damned film!” Lola, by the way, is a six-year-old labrador-collie crossbreed.

Lola is highly intelligent and I’ve easily trained her to sit, stay, come, fetch, heel, left paw, right paw — surely a perfect candidate for stardom. However, she has ‘issues’.