What?!  Sometimes, we Scotties just like to hang out and be lazy.  Okay, maybe a lot of the time, we Scotties just like to hang out and be lazy!  Do we really need a picture of me hanging out and being lazy?!

What is Memorial Day really about?  Remembering those who have proudly served our country.  Today, we honor you!

We Scotties enjoy hearing Wen play the piano, but other than when it’s being played, we don’t pay any attention to it.  Even though the piano takes up a huge part of our living room, we pretty much ignore it, other than to walk around the enormous roadblock or walk underneath it as we’re passing through.

The other night, for some odd reason, Sunny decided to stake out a spot on the floor underneath the piano for a snooze.  Normally, all of us Scotties can be found lying on the couch and it was the first time that any of us had ever done that and Sunny looked kind of strange lying there.  Maybe she just thought that she’d try out a new spot, but it was apparently just a fluke, because Sunny’s back to lying on the couch as per usual.  Why trade in the comfy couch for the hard floor?  We’ll never know!

Our backyard is finally nice and green and it has a variety of bushes and flowers that Wen has planted over the years.  We Scotties constantly like to go sniffing around the bushes and they are even more interesting to nose around now that they have all of their leaves.  Two lilac bushes in particular are Wen’s favorites, but they have struggled each spring due to severe rainstorms and hailstorms and they have barely produced any of the fragrant blooms that she likes.  This year though, has been the exception, because all of a sudden, we have all kinds of lilac blooms and I guess that you could say that we finally have the sweet smell of success!

Well, she did it again.  Sadie chewed the corner of another couch pillow.  Needless to say, Wen was not pleased, since three out of four pillows have now been chewed on.

Way to go, Sadie!  Now you’ve done it!  I bet it won’t be long before Wen gets out the dreaded bitter spray and soaks the pillow corners and we Scotties will be smelling it every time that we jump up on the couch.  Thanks to you, Sadie, our couch Feng shui will be totally destroyed by yucky bitter spray!

Scotties are typically independent personality dogs who are extremely loyal, but can sometimes act aloof.  We are generally not overly affectionate dogs who are all over our owners, seeking attention.

Occasionally though, my breeder, Jim Cantrell of Cantrell’s Scots of Ohio, describes a puppy as a “snuggler” in a puppy personality profile and Wen has decided that the term “snuggler” fits me as well.  When I see that she is sitting on the couch, I like to jump up by her and scooch up right next to her, which according to Wen, qualifies me as a “snuggler.”

Of all her past dogs, there has only been one who liked to snuggle and it was Buffy, her cocker spaniel, who lived to jump up on people’s laps and snuggle, which is normal affectionate cocker spaniel behavior.  Then, years later, I came along and broke the Scottie mold of sitting just beyond reach.  Hey, wanna snuggle?

Well, the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is upon us and we Scotties will be watching.  Of course, we are decked out in our finery for the big occasion.  Congratulations and best wishes to the bride and groom!!!

One thing about us Scotties and our big antenna ears—we have supersonic hearing.  We can hear a piece of food or a wrapper hit the kitchen floor from the next room and be there in a flash to try to grab it.  When we hear the refrigerator door or the pantry door open, we are immediately on alert and run into the kitchen as fast as we can, because you never know when a tasty morsel could drop onto the Scottie clean up zone, also known as the floor.

If you think about it, we are just trying to adhere to the five second rule.  If a piece of food hits the floor and you snarf it up within five seconds, it’s not yet contaminated, so thank goodness for our antenna ears, or we would miss out on a lot of goodies!  (Okay, let’s be honest:  if we found a piece of food on the floor that had been there for days, we’d probably still eat it, because as you know, dogs will be dogs!)

Coming in June….RILEY’S BANANA BOAT ADVENTURE!!!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our moms, both canine and human!  We hope that you have a wonderful day and we want you to know how much we love and appreciate you!