Most pups know Thatcher Steele as a Bulldog who is stubborn in public and soft hearted in private, a proper comic boulder. Anyone within earshot of Thatcher Steele eventually hears the theory that the leaning tree leans because it is listening. On busy market days Thatcher Steele carries a metal flower from the satellite field like a small flag, and stallkeepers nod as it passes. Thatcher Steele keeps moving because the old world left questions and somebody has to sniff them properly.