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"The standard has a perfect description:
The Scottish Terrier should be alert and spirited but also stable and steady-going. He is a determined and thoughtful dog whose "heads up, tails up" attitude in the ring should convey both fire and control.
The Scottish Terrier, while loving and gentle with people, can be aggressive with other dogs. He should exude ruggedness and power, living up to his nickname, the "Diehard."
Here are some other things said about Scottish Terrier character by
breed experts:
Hard as a diamond-tipped drill, thoroughly game to the utter extremity, bright as polished brass, true and lovable, Scottie with his odd little ways, is just the ideal dog.
Williams Haynes, The Scottish Terrier, 1915"---
"As a guard it is impossible to better him. He gives his warning, and if it passes unheeded, he shows very definitely that he is there and in charge. He is self-centred, deep-natured with a soul both for laughter and tragedy. . . . There is nothing frothy or shallow in the nature of a Scottie. He never forgets--his heart may break with grief, but he will not yowl about it. He is absolutely honourable, incapable of a mean or petty action, large hearted and loving, with the soul and mind of an honest gentleman.
Dorothy Gabriel, The Scottish Terrier, 1934"
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"A gentleman! That is perhaps the whole story. The Scottie is a gentleman. He is reserved, dignified, honorable, patient, tolerant and courageous. He doesn't annoy you or force himself upon you. He meets life as he finds it, with an instinctive philosophy, a stoical intrepidity and a mellow understanding. He is calm and firm, and he minds his own business--and minds it well. He is a Spartan and can suffer pain without whimpering. . . . He will attack a lion or a tiger if his rights are invaded, and though he may die in the struggle he never shows the white feather or runs away. He is the most admirable of all sports--forthright, brave and uncomplaining. . . . He is one of the few dogs with whom human beings can actually argue.
Scotties have their own ideas about things--they work out their problems and arrive at very definite conclusions--and they will go to the mat with you on any issue. If you are right they will, in the end, give in; but if you are wrong from their canine point of view (which, incidentally, is a highly sensible one), they can be as stubborn as only a Scotchman can be. . . . One of the most delightful qualities of a Scottie is his aloofness. He has a sense of bashfulness, and despite his vigorous nature, he is highly sensitive.
Like all well-bred people he hates to be stared at. If you look straight at him in a critical way he will turn his head and attempt to act indifferently. . . . It is these qualities--gentleness and gameness, intelligence and modesty, courage and reserve--that have endeared him to every one that knows him, and have brought about his great popularity.
S. S. Van Dine, Introduction to the Third Edition of The Book of the Scottish Terrier by Fayette C. Ewing".
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"This character ought to be stamped on his appearance. His face should express human understanding, the eyes should twinkle from under heavy eyebrows, with a keen, alert, inquiring look, yet contain-ing in their depths something of the continual presence and depth of human tragedy.
He is a Celt, and in all Celts there is an underlying sense of sorrow. But this tragic outlook on life is not the predominating characteristic. Its existence is almost concealed, but that it does exist gives to those who know him a feeling of security in that, what-ever may befall, he will attune himself to the changes and chances of his human companion. In ordinary life he is self-contained, at times, perhaps, a little self-centred, and he has this much of the canniness, supposed to be Scotch, that however much he grieves when he sees boxes and bags in his master's bedroom, knowing this means absence from home, yet when departure has taken place he will stroll un-affectedly into the kitchen or to the stable and domineer in his own particular fashion over the domestic or outdoor servants, and enjoy the change from ordinary conditions. To the lover of Scottish Terrier character, the tales of dogs grieving for an absent master or mistress fall on unsympathetic ears, and temptation arises to inquire why a dog is kept which cannot enjoy the pleasures available to it, but must pine for what it cannot get, and in thus pining cause discomfort to a tender-hearted owner. A dog loves nonetheless because it can put up with other people in the absence of those it loves best.
William McCandlish, The Scottish Terrier"--
"With all his many merits, the Scottie has other traits which can be provoking. Chief of these is his stubbornness; he will hurry only slowly and the more the owner tries to hustle him the less cooperative he may become--he has four-wheel brakes and is quite prepared to use them. Anger will not help for he will collapse completely, shocked and hurt. Instant obedience and slavish subservience are not in his
nature and are a betrayal of his inheritance. He is a king, a laird, a chief and will meet you as a friend and equal, but not as a servant or a menial.
Betty Penn-Bull, The Kennelgarth Book of the Scottish Terrier, 1983"
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