Tatler D-litter pedigree

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Quite similar in type: Håkan and Berry

Left Ch. Burrow´s Glen Moray "Håkan" and right Ch. Tatler Turnberry "Berry". Håkan is bred and owned by Mrs I. Johannesson, Sweden. 

Tatler D-litter X-ray

X-ray of Ch. Tatler Turnberry´s belly Febuary 17, 2016. The litter was sired by Ch. Burrow´s Glen Moray.

What do Saab- and Scottie fanciers have in common?

ACCORDING TO TOP GEAR, many Saab owners were members of “the intelligentsia” that included, but was not limited to, architects, graphic designers, civil rights lawyers, and specialist doctors. Top Gear also claimed that Saab´s main target group was the best educated of any other target group in the car industry. Owners were often quirky, successful, understated individuals who shied away from the stigma of driving a BMW or a Mercedes.

Saab owners usually identified with one or more of the following reasons for having purchased their vehicle:
- Integrity, and spirited engineering
- Design with meaningful lines through the whole body and details which support the wholeness
- Understatement
- Trustworthiness
- Intelligent and non-traditional solutions to major and smaller problems
- The courage to think and act for sensible reasons, instead of commercial fanciness/trendiness
- Saab's iconic cult-like following
- Admiration for a small brand with a very innovative heritage 

I think there are several similarities between Saab owners and Scottie owners. Please humour me a little, and I´ll tell you why: 
- Scottie owners have integrity, and spirited opinions
- They appreciate sound lines through the whole body and details which support the wholeness
- They always prefer an understatement, rather than the (blatant) opposite
- Trustworthiness is essential
- Traditionalists at heart, though highly intelligent and well-educated, they (will) eventually find new solutions to major and smaller problems
- The lions share of people in the Scottie-fancy are never bold over by fanciness or trendiness
- The breed has a well established and iconic cult-like following
- Fanciers share a common admiration for a small breed with an illustrious heritage 

Let´s hope the Scottish Terrier doesn’t share the same tragic demise as the Saab car manufacturer. Saab went into receivership in 2011. The Scottish Terrier´s fate is presently in the hands of all the intelligent breeders and owners. With so many sensible people in the Scottie-fancy world wide, how could the Scottish Terrier´s future be anything but bright? 

Photo montage: P R Hewitt

Tatler Third Dimension BOS

TATLER THIRD DIMENSION (Ch. Sir Darnley´s Windsor Wizard ex. Ch. Tatler Tickled Pink) won the CAC and went BOS from Intermediate class (he is 18 months old) today at the last national Norwegian show of the year, under judge Arne Foss (N). 

Congrats to his owner Barbro Selsø Andersen. 

Many congratulations, also, to today´s BOB-winner Raglan Rosemary Smart, and her owners; Gerd and Jarl Anthonisen. 

From EDS 2015

TATLER THIRD DIMENSION (Sir Darnley´s Windsor Wizard ex. Tatler Tickled Pink) - second i junior.
Photo: Elmira Spesivtseva

Dorothy Caspersz: The F O U R types

NORMALLY IT IS an ambition of every breeder worthy the name to build up a strain of his own. A strain can only be described as such when the same blood has been in one ownership for many generations. It is the possession of a family of animals carrying certain distinguishing family characteristics while yet conforming to breed type. It has been said that in every animal four types may be represented – the individual type (since no two animals are ever identical in every detail), the family type, the strain type and the breed type. In the early days of our breed´s show history, when there were many more real breeders and far fewer exhibitors, it used to be quite easy to recognize for instance an Ornsay, a Merlewood, or an Ems type of dog at a glance, from the fact that each bore the stamp of the strains from which they were produced. They had a strain type. Just because every dog in a given kennel carries the same registered prefix before its name is no reason for presupposing that kennel has a strain of its own. To ascertain whether it has or not requires a thorough probing into the pedigrees for seven or eight generations.

Source: The Popular Scottish Terrier/Dorothy Caspersz