Welcome to Gallica Scottish Terriers

Nearly 6 weeks

Scandal's Puppies continue to prosper and grow. They are in full fledges "Scottie Puppy Playing" mode - lots of rowls, roars, yips and barks. We've started them on gruel and goat's milk and they just lap it up. And Teeth! Check out these teeth! Today they had a little clipper job and some trimming around the tail. The boys were fine, but the girl was a wiggly. We've assigned some temporary names to the puppies - so we can keep track of them. The toothy one is Empress Josephine. The big boy is Atticus, and the smaller boy (he is hardly small) we call Archimedes - because he tends to be off by himself philosophizing. I've uploaded some new pictures - follow the link to the left. Today we set up the puppy room - otherwise known as the laundry room. They will start spending time in there instead of being in the master bath. Nights and such are still in the puppy pen at the food of the bed. This is such a cute picture of Empress Josephine I just couldn't resist.

Scandals Litter 2009

Happy new year from a couple of Scandal's puppies - pooped out after that big party in the whelping box last night. All of us at Gallica Scottish Terriers wish you and yours a blessed 2010. It has now been one week (about) since Scandal's (Ch Gallica's Ever So Clever)puppies arrived - and it has been a bit of a sleep deprived week.

We are quite happy that this blessed event happened during the holidays so that both of us were here to work the load. As of today (as you can read to the left) we have 3 puppies thriving- and they are quite little bruisers - in fact, with only 3 we will be watching to make sure they do not gain weight too fast for their legs to get under them (plenty of milk in mamma).A little recap - Scandal's first puppy was born naturally, though with some encouragement. However, after more than 2 hours following that Scandal was making no progress whatsoever in delivering and there was something unusual about the presentation so we decided a C-Section was in order. The emergency C-Section (at about 2am) delivered 3 live puppies and a 4th who was not alive (the puppy suffered from developmental defect called Anasarca - a mild case, the puppy looked normal, but not alive). We had expected 4 live ones from C-section since we thought we had heard 4 puppies, but as is sometimes the case using doppler - we counted 1 puppy twice.

In the beginning

It all started with Molly Josephine - (Tinker's Pops a Cork, JE). Molly-Jo came to us in 1999 after we fell in love with her in one visit. Molly was our first Scottie and stole both our hearts from day one.

That day - a fall day if I recall - we went looking for a Scottie and met Molly. After much research into the various Terriers, Charlie had decided that the Scottish Terrier was for us - but she was thinking a black maley. After some discussion - we decided to "think about it" for a bit and left. Not far down the road - we realized our mistake, turned around and went right back to get her.

Torben

Torben, Gallica's Black Tie Affair (Ch McChree's Wall Street x Am/Can Ch Gallica's War of the Roses JE CG)

is famous around Gann Scottie-dom for teaching everybody the nightly Scottie AhRoo!. This happens shortly after everybody goes to bed each night, last 5-10 seconds, and is his way of saying "Good Night Everybody". He has been known to light off during exciting show events too - for instance, he lit off the all the Scotties within ear shot at the Ohio Specialty in spring 2009. His timing was impeccable - the Best of Breed was being judged. Here is Torben during one of our big spring snow storms. That fence is normally 3 feet tall - so he's standing on about 2 feet of snow.

Scandal

Scandal, Ch Gallica's Ever So Clever (Ch Chyscott's Coat of Arms x Am/Can Ch Glenfraser's Black Brenna) is from Malena's second litter and is full liter mate to Sean. Scandal was named after Dee's Westie Scandal - and while she was a bit of a handful when young, she is now a very sweet little Scottie. Scandal is expecting in December 2009.

Melena

Malena, Am/Can Glenfrasers Black Brenna Am SE, CG, Can JE, (Ch Beinnein's Devil's Advocate x Can Ch Glenfrasers Taliskar Thistle is our Foundation Bitch. We got Malena from Barry Truax of Burnaby Canada in 2002 and she has been a wonderful girl.Malena has had 3 litters with a total of 19 puppies. Malena had a hard time with her last litter and has retired. However, she is the youngest at heart Scottie we have.

Sean

Sean, Can Ch. Gallica's Great American, Sean is a real fireball in the ring - but a lover in your lap and other dogs that come to visit or stay with us. He is also a real talker, gives you a very intense look and says "Here I am."

Collette

Collette, Gallica's Sugar Run Night Sky (Ch McChree's Wall Street x Am/Can Ch Gallic's War of the Roses) is a full sister to Torbin. Collette is a very intense little Scottie, she is quite ready to take on the world. She is also a very pretty little girl. Zuzu and Collette keep us very busy.

Zuzu

Zuzu - aka, the Zubinator, or more formally Gallica's Keep the Joy of Ranscot (Ch Charthill Silver Streak x Ch Gallica's the Mayor's Maggie)is our only Wheaton Scottie (since we lost Molly). Zuzu is a handful - to say the least - but she is a real joy and keeps us on our toes (and her teeth on our toes too.) Zuzu is a very keen hunter - but she needs to learn that the Scottie Death Stare is not considered working for the purposes of Earthdog titles.

Kippen

Kippen, Am/Can Ch Gallica's War of the Roses JE (Ch Chyscott's First Knight x Ch Glenfrasers Black Brenna),is our first home Champion - and is also a very keen hunter. She is currently working on her Senior Earthdog title. Kippen is very attached to Charlie - and sleeps on the bed right at our head. Kippen's first litter, in 2008, has produced a number of very nice Scotties.

Gunnar

Our first show Scottie was Gunnar - Ch McVan's First in Command(Ch Cavnes Devil's Due x Ch McVan Abracadabra). Gunnar earned his championship by the time he was 18 months. Today - Gunnar has retired into petdom and is a great joy to have around.