Three weeks apart.  My sister, Molly and I were born just three weeks apart twelve years ago and ever since we were little puppies, we have been together.

Maybe it’s because we’re so close in age, or because our big wire cages that we sleep in have always been next to each other, or maybe it’s because we are wheatie twins, but we are best friends and we have a special Molly and me understanding.

We’ve never gotten into a scrap and it’s as if we have a mutual understanding because we grew up together.   Even though both of us kind of do our own thing, we are always aware of the other one and I’d say that makes us a bestie brother and sister pair of Scotties who have an unbreakable bond.

Twelve years ago on this day, I was a 10-week old puppy and my breeder put me on a plane in Dayton, Ohio, to fly to my new home in Denver.  Wen met me at the United cargo building at DIA (Denver International Airport) and took me home where my new brother and sister, Kirby and Sunny were waiting to welcome me.

My welcoming committee had recently lost their sister, Frosty Froofers to brain tumors and it was a shock to them to welcome a little puppy, but they treated me well and they soon adjusted to having non-stop puppy antics to deal with.   Honestly, I lucked out.  I couldn’t have joined a better Scottie family!

I am a serious dog.  Seriously, I was born with a serious personality and 95% of the time, I have a serious expression.  Some dogs are happy go lucky, but that’s just not me. For my entire life, I’ve been known as Mr. Serious.

Just like people, every dog is different and while Molly, the princess, is kind of aloof and Sadie is a goofball, there is absolutely no doubt that I am the serious one of our Scottie trio and believe me, on this topic, I am very serious!

My sister, Sadie had been working on the same chew toy for the longest time, so Wen came home with a new chew toy the other day.  She never knows if a toy will be a hit or it will be totally ignored by us Scotties, but it seems that this one was a really good choice.

As soon as Wen put the toy on the floor, Sadie grabbed it and jumped on the loveseat in our living room with it.  She stuffed the toy in between the cushions so that it was sticking up and in a perfect position for chewing and she chomped on it for the longest time.

When Sadie finally abandoned the toy, Molly jumped up on the loveseat and began chewing on it, which is highly unusual, because Molly generally ignores all the toys.  She evidently liked this one though and she chewed on it for the longest time just like Sadie did.

I’d say that the new chew toy was a big hit, because with all the chewing going on, it’s not exactly looking very new anymore!

 

What’s one thing we Scotties do that we always get in trouble for?  Every time that we get into the landscaping mulch and steal pieces to chew on, we get in trouble and then Wen takes the pieces of mulch away from us.

She has the areas with mulch fenced off from us, but we are sneaky and we pull out pieces through the fences with our teeth.  Then we like to chew up the little pieces of wood until we can swallow them, so Wen sees this as a hazard to our health and she confiscates every piece of mulch that she sees us with.

That darn mulch is so fun to crunch on though, so we Scotties will continue to sneak pieces from behind the fences whenever we can.  The temptation is just too much!

 

While shopping the other day, Wen came across a cute dog dress that was on clearance for four dollars.  It looked like a back to school type dress and since it was red, black, and white and the size looked right, it had Sadie’s name all over it and Wen couldn’t resist buying it for her.

Sadie, although looking very cute in the dress, did not seem exactly thrilled at being dressed up and she looked rather put out.  She ran around our living room, jumped on the love seat, and flopped down and rolled around.  It seemed that Sadie’s new dress was not the big hit that Wen hoped it would be!

 

It is well-known around here that I am the most experienced and cooperative model for photographs of the three of us Scotties.  Not only has Wen taken thousands and thousands of pictures of me, dressed up or not, but I have done photo shoots with a professional photographer for a catalog and for calendars.  I guess that I followed in  the modeling tradition of Kirby and Sunny, who came before us and were great models, while my two sisters, not so much.

Molly, who is the most beautiful of all eleven of us Scotties through the years in our MacDuff clan, has very little patience for posing for photos (especially dressed up) and when she does sit still, her ears normally go back, plastered to her head as if she does not want her picture taken and she knows that flat ears won’t make for a good one, so she is contrary on purpose.

Sadie will barely sit still long enough for a photo to be snapped before she’s off and running away.  Wen has to drag her back in position and then you can bet that Sadie will flop down and refuse to cooperate.  It’s pretty much like pulling teeth to get a halfway decent photo of her and even worse, it’s a frustrating scenario and nearly impossible to get all three of us to pose together for a shot.

Here’s an example of Sadie being the reluctant model she always is.  Wen put a cap on her and Sadie was so freaked out that she forgot to jump up and leave.  The expression on her face though kind of tells it all.  She was NOT a happy camper!

On these hot 90+ degree days, Wen often comes home with a nice cold Icee or a Slurpee.  They seem to be her refreshing guilty pleasures.  We Scotties also enjoy a cold drink of water or crunching on ice chips on these hot sweltering days, but I bet the closest we’ll ever get to one of those sweet frozen drinks is a toy replica.

I may not see you, Icees or Slurpees, but Icee you, plush toy!

Many thanks to everyone who voted for me in the Pet Savers 2026 calendar photo contest!  I won a spot in the calendar, because of you and a photo of me will be featured on one of the months!

Pet Savers offers affordable veterinary care in the Inland Northwest and this year is their 20th anniversary.  To celebrate this milestone, they teamed up with Kris Phillips of Furever Photography (my photographer in Post Falls, Idaho) to sponsor the photo contest as a fundraiser for their non-profit veterinary services in Spokane Valley, Washington. The contest brought in over five thousand dollars for their very worthy cause!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Maybe I need a new hobby in addition to my favorites of digging holes and chasing treat balls.  Wen gave me a doggie golf club and a ball to play with and they look interesting, but they also look like things I can chew on and destroy and what’s more fun than destroying toys?  Not much, that’s for sure!

I may look cool, looking as if I’m going to play golf, but in reality, I’m just biding my time until I can attack that club and ball and rip them apart!