Robert French - The Kennels at Rockingham Estate

We've stopped off twice before ( http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=47290943@N03&q=rockingham ) at the Rockingham Estate on Lough Key in Roscommon. We're back there again today because of the moaning grumbling er, perfectly reasonable requests from certain quarters (looking directly at you DannyM8) to raise the canine quotient in our photographs...My excellent colleague, Sara, suggested this one but imagine our delight when we zoomed in and what we thought might be a puppy turned out to be a ferret! (It is a ferret, isn't it?) Also wondering which of our furry friends has been munching on the kennel to the right?..Photographer: Robert French of Lawrence Photographic Studios ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls000313414 ) , Dublin..Date: 1903..NLI Ref.: L_ROY_07332 ( vtls000320087 )