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Name: Mac 'N' Me Argyle

Date of Birth:  I don't remember my real birthday, so we decided to choose New Year's Day 1997. 

Breed:  I'm as CAIRN as they come!      

Location:  I have been coast to coast twice this year!  I was rescued in New Jersey, then I flew to California to live, and then we drove back to Virginia and now I live in Whittaker Hollow, near Blacksburg Virginia.

Human Pet:  My Mom is a silly person.  She insists on a lot of baths and she is always brushing my teeth and pulling out my hair.  AND, she won't let me put my mark on her stuff!  I'm just trying to protect it from burglars!  But she has lotsa food, so it's okay.

My Web Page:  Sigh.  Mom forgot to pay this year and they took it away!

Favorite Toy or Hobby:

I can chase thunderstorms away!  I stand on the bed and bark at the thunder, and then it stops!  If it comes back, I just bark again!

Human Peeve:

My Mom won't let me clean the parrot cages.  I just want everything to be neat and tidy and no food on the bottom of the cage.  If she doesn't want me to clean up why does she give those dumb birds puppy chow anyway?!?

Favorite Story About Yourself:

Everything about me is interesting!  I don't want to deprive you of a minute, so here is my whole story.  Almost.  Well, I don't remember my early life.  I know I was a happy and loved dog, because I have no fear of anything and I can be cuddly if there is something in it for me.  I like to lie on the couch and watch TV.  But something happened, and I found myself in jail in New Jersey, and I hurt so bad I wouldn't lie down or stand up or eat or drink.  I just sat as still as I could for 5 days.  Then Jim from Scotty Rescue came and got me and took me to the hospital and called my Aunty Aly who saves Cairns for Colonel Potter.  The doctor there said I might not make it - my back was broken in 2 places, my pelvis in 7 pieces, both my hips were broken and one of my legs was all smashed to bits.  But all the nice people at Col. Potter emptied their piggy banks and a lot of people, including a school class, (a big AROO to Terri Wilson and the students at the Hand Middle School in Columbia SC) became my Guardian Angels, and the doctor decided to try.  I don't remember a lot about that time, I took lots of medicine because I was in so much pain.  But I woke up with a shaved butt and one of my legs was gone!!  Then I had to rest in a cage so my pelvis might heal.  Jim and some nice ladies from Scotty rescue and Aunty Aly and some of the other Aunties from Col. Potter kept coming to visit me and the technicians fed me CHICKEN instead of dog food!  So I pretended to be finicky, and they brought me yummy stuff and kissed me for eating it.  That was pretty cool!  Then one day Aunty Aly came and took me to her house, I think it was in New York City.  I still had to stay in the crate, but twice a day before and after work, she would get in the bathtub with me and take me swimming.  I loved that for sure!  I got very strong in that bathtub!

When my X-Rays showed my pelvis was stable, Aunty Aly put me in a shoulder bag and we went on a plane to California.  There I had to live with my crazy brothers, Mac, a Westie, Duncan, a miniature Schnauzer, Tracy, a fox terrier, Elijah, one of my own kind, a Cairn but a very very old one and Blackie, a huge Irish Wolfhound mix, who didn't like us little guys yet cos he had just come from the pound.  There were horses and squirrels and cats on the ranch.  I couldn't walk very well, so I had a wheelchair and a harness and 4 times a day I would go out on the trails to exercise myself.  I got very strong and started to walk a little bit in the house without my cart.

Life was just settling down when one day we all got in the truck and started driving!  After 3 days we got to Keller Texas where we spent the weekend with Aunties Vikki and Lisa and about 35 other Cairns at a Col. Potter meeting they called a POOP convention.  I dunno why, but there was food, so I didn't care!  And, they had a pond, so I went swimming and taught my Westie brother to swim too.  Hahaha, the water was muddy, he had to have a bath afterwards!  The rest of the trip took us to Virginia and now I live in a house with a fenced yard and all of us dogs, even the big one, are friends.  I sleep in my Mom's bed and get tummy rubs at bed time.  I hear I am gonna do Earthdog this month!  I don't know what that is but my Mom has been showing me a rat sometimes and I just know I could get one!

Greatest Achievement (Personal or Professional):

Hmm, this is hard, I am just so special in every single way.  I think I will get an Earthdog title just to show how indomitable I really am!

Best Trick You Ever Played On Your Human:

I sneaked into the basement when she was tinkering with the water pump.  (She does that a lot, and says funny words down there too, I think it is some kind of incantation.)  When she went out, I hided, and when she was looking for me, I didn't say anything, just stood inside by the door.  She looked and looked and yelled at the other dogs and threw toys all over.  Then she came and opened the door and I wagged my tail.  She hugged me and called me a Scamp and gave me a peanut butter cookie.  I'm gonna hide in there again if I get a chance!!

For more information about the Colonel Potter Cairn Rescue Network, Matching CAIRNS in need of HOMES with HOMES in NEED of CAIRNS, or if you would like to donate to Cairn Rescue please visit their website!  COLONEL POTTER CAIRN RESCUE NETWORK

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