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Is this the end of the Dandie Dinmont? DOG NAMED AFTER A WALTER SCOTT CHARACTER COULD BE ON ITS LAST WEE LEGS.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20060125
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Byline: GREIG CAMERON

THEY are one of the oldest breeds of dog in the world - named after a character in a Sir Walter Scott novel.

But now, after 250 years delighting owners, the Dandie Dinmont terrier is in danger of disappearing .

In Scott's 1814 book Guy Mannering, Dandie Dinmont was a farmer in the Borders who kept a pack of terriers that were mustard and pepper in colour.

The short-legged dogs were used to hunt otter, foxes and rodents and were well known locally but had never been formally named.

Soon after the publication of Scott's work, however, they ...

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