"Oh, he comes with me, most of the time. We make a good team. He stays out of the worst of it," she adds. Jazz knows when to keep his head down. It helps that Fortescue rarely gets into a fight she can't get out of. "But on a... few occasions, he's had to stay home. And I have... friends who look after him. They say he howls when I'm gone."

They're not friends, and the howls are anything but cute. But the story is true, otherwise.