By Florida Bill That Cairn terrier nose is something to really admire. Some experts say it is about 100,000 times as sensitive as that belonging to its two-footed friends.
Wendy, a black Cairn whose ancestors first appeared centuries ago on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, tells us exactly what sniffing out an intruder is all about.
A few days, we opened the back door of our Florida home and whistled and shouted an "out" to notify our Cairns, Sammi, 10, and Wendy,8, that they could visit the rear yard for a look around and do whatever Cairns like to do in a grassy yard. Sammi appeared immediately and exited the door, but Wendy never showed. After repeated whistles and calls, we started looking for her. Had she somehow gotten out and was roaming about the neighborhood? Hopefully not that.
We began searching the house, and in a rear office of our ranch style home, we found her alongside a desk, motionless, but staring intently. Her focus on someone or something behind the furniture was obvious. There are a good many wires for TVs, stereos, lamps and a fax machines jumbled together behind the desk and partially concealed by a "Dolphins" trash can. Access is difficult as space between the wall and the desk is about eight inches.
Wendy would not take no for an answer and so we removed the basket and she roared into the small space, rooted about the wires, and emerged with a black bug the size of a quarter in her mouth---which she promptly dropped at our feet, and accepted our praise. It was of course dead and we grabbed it with a napkin, but did not recognize it as a bug which we had seen before. But I must congratulate our Wendy who must have smelled or heard something from that tiny interloper and she was not going to rest until she had removed it from territory on which she resides and protects. Wendy, you are magnificent and for that, a piece of your very favorite Pupperoni.
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