As of yesterday, Peaches in Chittenden County was still looking for a forever home. Here are her details. She is seven years old and was apparently given up because she didn’t get along with the other animals in the home. WTF??!! [read more…]
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Celebrate St. Patricks Day with Amazon’s electronics deals
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Prince Albert in a Can 1 by anitamombanita on Flickr
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From ModernScottieDog.com: Actress Ida Lupino with her two Scotties in the 1940s
There are updates to yesterday’s story about the Scottish Terrier in the lawn commercial.
And there’s a new Scottie site in town. Its creative director Connie writes: “I co-author a blog with my sister about the Modern Scottie Dog. We are two sisters living in MN and CA, both passionate about our Scottie dogs, blogging, and photography. I have been a long time subscriber to the Scottish Terrier News and look forward to many more of your newsletters, I added a link to your site in the category of news. We are both passionate Scottie owners and hope through blogging to share the rich history of this breed and its owners. We hope you will share our blog with your followers too. We will soon be launching our website, ModernDogLife.com, a lifestyle site for the modern family dog.”
If you have a Scottish Terrier website or event, let the Scottie News know and we’ll try to help publicize it.
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The miraculous properties of Scotts EZ Seed? Or the idea that Scottish Terriers are impeccably well behaved? (Hat tip: Wendy)
Update: Readers sent in some comments via email.
Ken wrote:
This is the commercial that Cutty (kennel mate of the late Whiskie) and two other agility Scotties auditioned for on March 1st at a studio on Conat Street in the Design District of Dallas. We spent 3½ hours alternating between dogs with an entourage of 14 on hand. Upon entry there was a bay covered with sod and a smaller staging area in the adjoining room had sod also. A fertilizer spreader was standing that room and was seen on TV a few nights later. The first sod area was apparently the “yard” seen in that commercial.Taping started with the red-headed man with a beard sprinkling grass seed on sod on top of a dog house with a name sign labeled “Haggis”. This scene was not used in the commercial. Next they wanted the dogs to pick up a hose and drag it across the set. Since none of the dogs had any prior training for this type of activity, the idea didn’t work. So the next attempt was to wire the hose to a dog’s collar to appear that he was dragging it. That effort too was a failure. It appears that a “Sit, Stay” with a Scottie was the only thing that worked. The other dog(s) auditioned later that afternoon. The second man must have come in after that.
This was all done indoors, so the background and house were edited in and the grass has a greener cast than on the set. Don’t always believe what you see.
We didn’t make the cut, but it was a new experience for Cutty.
Kathy wrote:
Well as nice as it is to see a scottie in a commercial how distressing it is to see our scottie as the “poster boy” for chemicals that may be responsible for their link to TCC (Purdue study). I’m writing Scotts and the Ad agency about this. You may be familiar with this article.
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Have we ever had a Westie Wednesday with this many W’s before? Thank reader Wendy, who spotted and photographed this adorable Westie who spends his days at a fashionable Toronto store.
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From puppy mill to calendar girl
Angela writes:
Morgan was my first foster from St. Louis Scottish Terrier Rescue. I fell in love with her on sight in the back of the van that transported her and 6 other Scotties from a Missouri puppy mill. I could not adopt her immediately as she had a nasty UTI that took a month of antibiotics to tame so she couldn’t get spayed. It’s a good thing–she was pregnant with 6 puppies!
Besides enduring her 6 puppies for 10-12 weeks (in the mill, they’re pulled between 4-6 weeks old or whenever they are weaned) she has also been a foster sister to 15 Scotties & 1 Westie. I dog sit occasionally and Morgan does reasonably well with non-terrier dogs. Hey, she’s a natural born boss!
She is the happiest around other dogs; Morgan was in dog heaven at last year’s Door County Scottie Rally. She still has issues with people in general, especially men. Morgan sees my grandmother at least twice a week, and after almost 2 years, finally took a bone from grandma’s hand last week.
Thank you for posting such wonderful pictures & stories–I really enjoy the site!
- Angela, Lady Morgan & foster Flynn & guest Riley (Morgan’s 4th born)
- Always my special Angel WHWT HRH Ralph Henry, Rainbow Bridge 3-09-10
- My first Diehard forever, Boomer, Rainbow Bridge 6-18-09, Foster mama to 18
Thanks, Angela for all your hard work and sharing your stories.
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