APRIL owned by JULIE GRASSI

My maremma is Pascolo April Snow. April is a lovely, gentle, intelligent dog, who minds the house, the acreage (all 25 of them) and the herd of 50-odd goats, when required - she's often thrown a newborn kid to mind if I'm busy with multiple births. I also have a german shepherd, Jade (Numani Crystal Gem) who is four weeks older than April. Her father came from the Netherlands, so what with the dogs and my Italian husband, it's rather a European arrangement here - even the goats are swiss breeds!

April lives in Tasmania, Australia.