Today is the last preseason football game for the Denver Broncos and we will be watching to see how well our new quarterback does.  Yes, it’s that time again….time to start getting serious about football!  Go Broncos!

We Scotties enjoy piano music.  When Wen plays the piano, we three Scotties always end up stretching out on the couch to listen and we stay there until the concert’s over.  It’s been a little while since the last time we heard live music, so we’d appreciate it if you’d play us a tune!

My sister, Molly has the most beautiful haircoat.  Her hair is really thick and gorgeous and she looks like a hovercraft moving across the yard.  It’s most likely since she is out of champion Hungarian lines on her sire’s side that she has a coat like a show dog.

In contrast, neither Sadie nor I have a haircoat that can come anywhere close to Molly’s.  Both of our coats are thinner and Sadie has a little curl to hers, so if Wen would not brush her every day, Sadie’s hair would begin to twist into dreadlocks.

My coat has its own issues, since I lost about a half of it after I was really sick a year ago.  Not only did my hair fall out, but my being sick resulted in three ultrasounds where they shaved all the hair from my abdomen and my hair is taking its time growing back.

Meanwhile, Molly can represent us as a fine example of the Scottish Terrier breed, because she is definitely a real looker!

Molly and I are wheaten-colored Scotties and out of Wen’s 11 Scotties, seven of us have been wheatens.  I suppose you could say that Wen favors us wheatens and I know that she really loves our coat colors.  Most of us have been lighter colored, but my coat seems to have  been the most reddish out of all of us.

Do all Scotties look alike?  Sort of, but it’s easier to tell us wheatens apart by our different shades of wheaten color.

 

I had a dream that I was on a vacation at a mountain cabin and I was goin’ fishin’.  Can you imagine?  Did I have too many snacks before bed or do I subconsciously really want a vacation?  Either way, at least I caught a fish in my dream and it was a whopper!

 

Molly and I are obsessed with digging holes in our backyard.  Whenever Wen takes us out there, as soon as she turns her back, we go to work and by the time she turns back around, there are new holes in the ground.

Why do we like to dig?  We’re Scottish TERRIERS and it’s instinct because Terrier means earth dog.  Okay, we also like to eat dirt and when we sniff out an interesting spot in the grass, we’ll start digging there and snacking on dirt.  Sadie, however, doesn’t have our urge to dig holes, but she is a big time dirt and mulch eater, which also is a no-no.

Wen thinks our digging habit is annoying since she has to repair the holes, but we persist until we get caught in the act.  You’d think that getting in trouble for digging would be a deterrent, but no, we’ve gotten reprimanded so many times that it’s no big deal to us anymore.  Meanwhile, we’ll keep on digging.  You can’t take the instinct out of the dog!

Here it is, back to school time for the kiddos.  It doesn’t exactly affect us Scotties, but I suppose it never hurts to have a refresher course in practicing dog obedience, considering that it’s been quite a few years since my basic obedience class.

Since we Scotties are an independent breed, learning commands doesn’t come naturally for us, because we aren’t those eager to please dogs and we like to do what WE like to do!  I guess that knowing obedience commands and being a well-mannered dog is a good thing though, so maybe for us, it’s back to obedience time!

 

Every once in a while, Wen visits an antique mall to look for Scottie-themed items.  She started collecting in 1978 when she got her first Scottie, so she has quite a collection, even though she has donated lots of items to the yearly Scottie club fundraiser.

Her latest find was an oil painting of a Scottie that had an old ugly frame, but she bought it anyway and had a new frame made for it.

Paintings and prints of Scotties are rare finds and this colorful painting looks nice and updated in its new frame.  Job well done!

 

 

Here we are once again, the time of the year when the kids go back to school.  It seems like they go back to class in the middle of the summer anymore and that they just finished school for last year.  Wow, it’s kind of hard to believe that school’s back in session already.  Time really does fly!