Dandie History Articles

These few poetic and descriptive words, penned by arguably Scotland 's greatest ever storyteller, Sir Walter Scott, introduced the world to the breed we now know as the Dandie Dinmont Terrier: He evolved from the Scottish hillside, the grey mists forming his body, a bunch of lichen his topknot, crooked juniper stems his forelegs and a wet bramble his nose In Scott's 1814 Waverley Novel, "Guy Mannering", Dandie Dinmont was a farmer who kept six of the distinctive Terriers on his farm. Sir Walter was much amused by the fact that the old farmer only had two different names for any of his dogs. His six dogs were named Auld Pepper, Auld Mustard, Young Pepper, Young Mustard, Little Pepper and Little Mustard. To this day the two colours of the breed are still known as Pepper (bluish black) and Mustard (rich golden brown). The truth of the matter is that…