Von Willebrands disease
Von Willebrand’s disease is a hereditary bleeding disorder found in both dogs and humans and is quite prevalent within our Scottish Terriers. Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1 Feb 1870 – 12 […]
Category Archives: Scottie Health
7 days and counting …..
With just one week to go before the very first Scottish Terrier Health Awareness Day, I sit and contemplate the future our Scotties face. This very first Awareness Day will, […]
21 days to go
Scottish Terrier Health Awareness day is 21 days away. You’ve still got plenty of time to think of something to do on either the 11th July or the following weekend. […]
Ribbon has arrived!!
Our Scottish Terrier Health Network “ribbon” arrived for our Awareness Day. I made Bobby pose to display the tartan we’ve chosen: “Pride of Bannockburn”. He was very good and got […]
The Ribboniers
This story originally appeared in the Nov/Dec 2004 issue of GSM. Current revisions of the official breed standard now underway by the Scottish Terrier Club of America make this “why-tale” […]
11th July: Scottie Health Awareness Day
The countdown has started. In one months time, July 11th, Scottish Terrier Health Network and you, our worldwide supporters will be “celebrating” our first ever Scottie Health Awareness Day. How […]
Goodbye Finlay ….
Many of you are already aware that our beloved Finlay lost his fight with Bladder Cancer on Tuesday 21st May 2013. He was 10 years, 3 months and 1 week. […]
Finlay : Update
I don’t want to tempt Fate and all that, so I’ve “crossed” everything that can be crossed whilst typing this update. So far he has responded really well since our […]
New Bladder Cancer Research
Breaking News : Deborah Knapp, the Dolores L. McCall Professor of Comparative Oncology at Purdue University, has received a grant from the Animal Cancer Foundation for a two-year study on bladder cancer therapy. (Full […]
Ruffles de Scottie
Ruffles, our very very dear facebook friend, is living healthily with bladder cancer. See her story here, recorded by her devoted “human staff” as Ruffles calls them. Ruffles and her […]
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