(Dogs 38)
When Mr. Dee first got the hang of our house, which is long with wide window sills, he started to patrol it. Sitting in one window, he would peer thru his long eyebrows until he saw someone going by, a cat on the hill, not country cars, then he would give the alarm, running the length of the house, jumping on each window sill as he went. After a few weeks of this, I decided this was too hard on the paint as well as the ears and got thru to him it wasn't wanted.
October 1, 2013
September 28, 2013
Scotch and lively
(Dogs 37)
The book goes on to say the Cairn is as "Scotch as whiskey" and "lively as corn in a popper." More than that, he has a great heart and stout courage, is rugged and studry. Ours is also very independent and a character.r
The book goes on to say the Cairn is as "Scotch as whiskey" and "lively as corn in a popper." More than that, he has a great heart and stout courage, is rugged and studry. Ours is also very independent and a character.r
September 26, 2013
Short-haired Skye
(Dogs 36)
My dog book says until 1909 the Cairn was called a "Short-haired Skye" -- probably from the Isle of Skye, or Scotland mainland. Going back 300 years he is one of the oldest British working terriers. "Cairn" means "a heap of stones," meaning that for hundreds of years Scottish lairds kept a pack of these dogs to rout out fox, badgers, rats, otters from rocky places to keep them from destroying flocks of sheeep and poultry. The dogs would go in the animals' holes, rout them out for their masters to shoot.
My dog book says until 1909 the Cairn was called a "Short-haired Skye" -- probably from the Isle of Skye, or Scotland mainland. Going back 300 years he is one of the oldest British working terriers. "Cairn" means "a heap of stones," meaning that for hundreds of years Scottish lairds kept a pack of these dogs to rout out fox, badgers, rats, otters from rocky places to keep them from destroying flocks of sheeep and poultry. The dogs would go in the animals' holes, rout them out for their masters to shoot.
September 24, 2013
Toto Toto
(Dogs 35)
Do you know the Cairn? If you don't, just imagine a dog half as big as a Scotty, much the same in appearance, you will have the picture well enough. Dorothy of Oz had a Cairn, Toto, and in the Forsyth Saga it is a Cairn who follows Aunt Julie home from Central Park.
Do you know the Cairn? If you don't, just imagine a dog half as big as a Scotty, much the same in appearance, you will have the picture well enough. Dorothy of Oz had a Cairn, Toto, and in the Forsyth Saga it is a Cairn who follows Aunt Julie home from Central Park.
September 23, 2013
Whose dog he was
(Dogs 34)
And yet from the first, I think Mr. Dee knew whose dog he was. I know I did. Mary M. lovedhim too. And if she didn't drill him in his tricks, she knew how to show him off to visitors. And though she has left me, as have the rest, and he is 15, old for a dog, he and I are still keeping house, still putting up with each other.
And yet from the first, I think Mr. Dee knew whose dog he was. I know I did. Mary M. lovedhim too. And if she didn't drill him in his tricks, she knew how to show him off to visitors. And though she has left me, as have the rest, and he is 15, old for a dog, he and I are still keeping house, still putting up with each other.
September 21, 2013
Rapt happiness Rapt happiness
(Dogs 32)
We were riding home. It was happening all over again -- this rapt happiness in a new dog. We were bringing home someone new, someone warm and cuddly, someone as yet a stranger but soon to be a memboer of the family.
We were riding home. It was happening all over again -- this rapt happiness in a new dog. We were bringing home someone new, someone warm and cuddly, someone as yet a stranger but soon to be a memboer of the family.
September 19, 2013
Cairn terriers for sale
(Dogs. 31)
So on a Sunday afternoon family car ride we saw the sign with "Cairn Terriers for Sale." They were all brindle except ours, for he was ours the minute we saw him scaring the grasshoppers in the garden -- black, hairy, not very big, hrdy, and with a quizzical expression.
So on a Sunday afternoon family car ride we saw the sign with "Cairn Terriers for Sale." They were all brindle except ours, for he was ours the minute we saw him scaring the grasshoppers in the garden -- black, hairy, not very big, hrdy, and with a quizzical expression.
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