Thatcher - Pip Warr ( 25 ) puts the finishing touches to a ridge on a thatched cottage in East Knighton , near Wareham , Dorset with tools brought to him by his collie Chewit. The nimble dog is on call all day long to nip up and down ladders a he works on buildings all over the West Country. Four year old Chewit began climbing ladders as a pup to fetch and carry for her master when she decided to follow her master to work. Now she works on all his roofing jobs, except when he gets commissions abroad and quarantine rules keep her at August 1990 Picture by Roger Bamber

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