Posted on 05/11/2008 3:03:53 PM PDT by yankeedame
(A pup named "Molly". She's a West Highland terrier. Photo taken at the recent Dortmund, Germany dog show.)
Humm....sounds like a great name for a children's book.
From when I was a child, I remember a book “The pokey little puppy”.
I believe he may have been this breed: West Highland Terrier.
Anybody know?
Excuse me. The pokey little puppy is NOT the doggy I am thinking about.
Maybe it was a dog called the Shaggy Dog, or the lost dog. Seems like there was a strawberry patch involved.
Synopsis
Instead of following his siblings on adventures, the Poky Little Puppy decides to sniff a different patch of grass. In the beginning, his independence is rewarded. The puppies all dig underneath a fence to escape from their yard, but only the Poky Little Puppy’s siblings are caught. The Poky Little Puppy avoids punishment because he’s off exploring as his mother scolds his siblings, and he comes home alone after everyone is asleep. The Poky Little Puppy then eats the rice pudding that the mother was planning to give all the puppies but withheld because of the fence-digging incident.
Only at the end of the book, when the puppies make amends with their mother, fate catches up to the Poky Little Puppy. His siblings enjoy some strawberry shortcake, while the Poky Little Puppy is nowhere to be found. He misses out on the strawberry shortcake, and the book concludes with Poky Little Puppy going to bed without a bite and feeling “very sorry for himself.”
Auggghhh! I looked! Molly certainly is dangerously cute—thanks for posting her picture. : )
Looks just like my lil’ old dog Rascal that just passed away last oct. 30 at the ripe old age of 16 years
Adorable!
Wife and I want to get a little dog. We’re thinking about either a Yorkshire, a West Highland, or Scottish Terrier. They are all cute. Are they all about the same in disposition, etc.?
Yorkies tend to be rather yappy in the way many small dogs are. Westies are larger. They are smart, brave, and obedient. And they don’t shed to the extent that other dogs do. I can’t think of a nicer dog to have.
I inherited a little Yorkie from my father when he passed away. She is not yappy at all. He had another Yorkie before her and she was not yappy. Now a yappy dog is a chiwawa. The problem with the Yorkie is she is so little and gets under our feet all the time and the poor thing gets stepped on.
We also have a Lasa Apsa mix and he is the ideal size. Before these two dogs we had a Terrier mix. We thought he might have been West Morland mix, not sure but we had to put him to sleep at 19 years old. He was the best dog we ever had. Scruffy was his name.
Oops! That should have been West Highland mix. He looked a lot like the picture above.
Definitely dangerously cute. Thanks for posting that!
Goofy lookin' dog!! Haha
I’ve been a dog groomer for 30 years. I’ve never met a Yorkie that wasn’t in touch with it’s inner Pit Bull. The dogs you name are all terriers. They are all very tenacious. Westies are the sweetest of the bunch, with Scotties a close second. That being said I will at some point own a Yorkie. There are no bad dogs, just some are more suited to certain people than others.
I’m a Cairn Terrier guy myself. Love ‘em!
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