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[Emma_]

Thanks

Yes Fred is giving us his toothy grin - very cheeky boy he is - managed to escape from his cage last night, silly me thinking one slidey lock would be enough - tonight two slidey locks to avoid jailbreak (he does consider himself a prisoner!)

[Bengt Fredriksson]

Hello! My name is Bengt from Sweden. I'm 51 years old and live with my family in a small village, Vikmanshyttan. We have a wonderful Cairn terrier, Nisse. He's 7 years old and we all love him so much. I think cairn terriers are the perfect dog because they are a big dog i a small body. They are also happy and funny dogs.
Happy New Year to everybody!

Edited by Bengt Fredriksson, 29 December 2011 - 11:50 PM.

[angela0119]

Hi, I'm new to the forum. I live in South Mississippi, work full time as an Office Manager of a Civil Engineering firm, and have two wonderful kids! Leah (6) Blake (2) We are about to get our very first family dog of our own. I have always loved dogs and have had many of my own in the past, but never a Cairn. I'm excited for my children to have their own pet to love as they are with my parents dogs daily, and love them so very much. It is some of the best memories I have growing up with my cocker spaniels, and I hope to make those kinds of memories for them! Looking forward to learning from you all and sharing our adventures!

[Idaho Cairns]

Bengt (whom I missed in December!) and Angela, welcome! It is so neat to have new members to describe their experience with Cairns. Wow, Sweden and Mississippi--now talk about your basic "diverse" environments for Cairns!
Angela your kids are going to love having a Cairn around but be aware that now they have a co-conspirator to all the mischief that kids and Cairns are capable of coming up with--fair warning! Everyone needs to be sending pictures and videos when possible so we have something to ooh and ahh over.

[Hez]

Hi everyone,

My name is Heather, I'm 26 in June. I'm from Perth Western Australia and our beautiful boy is 16 months now. We love our Cairn Gus - he is such a wonderful dog. I have never had a dog before and my partner has only had staffy's. We went to see some of our breeders cairns and the litter of puppies 2 before ours. We fell in love somewhere between 3 tugging on the bows of my shoes and one taking about 15min to get onto the bed because he was sqeezing between the frame and mesh bed.

We got our boy valentines day last year and have loved every second. Including him meeting a donkey as a puppy and his first swim in the ocean this week. Oh the look of terror! but he swam as soon as his legs were off the ground.

I work in the call centre for social security here while I try and finish my public policy degree (it couldn't come soon enough!) My partner works for a pool equipment manufacturer and between us we have every stupid customer story known to man.

I love all the help you guys provide on this forum. Cairns are not the most common here especially given it never gets below 0 degree c here. no snow - ever. most people think he is some kind of cross oversize westie - or some kind of bitsa. My breeder is fantastic but has had some problems lately so I really don't want to disturb her.

Looking forward to your Cairn stories - Its nice to hear some for a change!

Heather, Mathew and Gus

Edited by Hez, 15 March 2012 - 07:00 AM.

[Idaho Cairns]

Heather, welcome to you Mathew and Gus to this group of dedicated and somewhat obsessed Cairn Owners and we are pretty well flung world wide as you can see. Cairns are actually pretty rare here in the States as well, we don't see a lot out walking around and we often get the "what is it, a big Yorkie?" kind of thing.
Neat to have you aboard, hope we can keep you entertained and informed, console you when your Gus is being a Cairn "terriblus" as well as "ooh and ahh" when he is being a sweetheart.

[Dempsy's Mom]

I too have missed the new members. Sorry about that you all. Welcome, Bengt, Angela and Heather. I hope you all enjoy this forum. We are a big family here and love new members to enlighten and tell us of their Cairn tales. Feel free to join in with anything that's on your mind or what little adventure you all have been up to. It so fun to hear from people and Cairns all over the world.

[Hillscreek]

Welcome from Pennsylvania to Sweden, Mississippi, and Australia!

My Angus is a seven and a half months. He is a red brindle.

I love this site and have had lots of help from members.

And it is a lot of fun to read stories of other cairns' adventures.

If it gets tough with your cairn in health or training or whatever a big support group is here for you.

Enjoy!