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January 2010
Haggis On Toast, originally uploaded by Back in the Pack.
Another weekend has come and gone. Haggis the Scottie dog is taking it in stride.
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To tell you the truth, I am really more interested in whether J.D. Salinger left behind a desk full of unpublished novels, as frequent rumour has had it, than I am in whether or not he had a dog, but this is the Scottish Terrier and Dog News not the Scottish Terrier and Book News so we have scoured the web to try and discover the author’s history of canine ownership. Here’s the scoop:
There (was) what Time called the “coy fraudulence” of the “throwaway self-interview” published only on the first edition jacket-flap of Franny & Zooey, which ends with “My wife has asked me to add, however, in a single explosion of candour, that I live in Westport with my dog.” This had led Time to thunder: “The dark facts are that he has not lived in Westport or had a dog for years.” Time was right on the Westport part but Salinger must have been amused when weeks later Life carried a photograph of, what it claimed was the Salinger family dog. So here’s a man who, as JDS’ absolutely unauthorised biographer Ian Hamilton sums up, left “America’s two wealthiest and most resouceful news magazines unable to agree on the matter of whether or not he owned a dog.”
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Details at USA Today.
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The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports:
Concern quickly turned to celebration for two Lubbock dog owners Saturday when their pair of West Highland White Terriers were returned four days after going missing.The dogs belong to Tim and Alicia Castleman, who spent a depressed week searching shelters and scouring streets for clues to the whereabouts of their dogs, Katie and Ricky, after the duo escaped through a wind-blown gate last Tuesday.
“It was horrible,” Tim said. “Every time the phone rang or an e-mail went off on my Blackberry, we’d jump up to see: ‘Was somebody calling about the dogs?’ “
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