Mustard & Pepper Fall 2022

Book Review

2022, awarded an Honorary Membership to the DDTC and the DDTCA. Professionally, Mike is an award - winning journalist and author of Silver Threads Among the Gold and Quiet Achiever . Mike and her husband Clancy Goodfellow, and their Dandies live in Umbridge Hills, Ontario, Canada. Paul Keevil acquired his first Dandie Dinmont in the mid 1980s and went on to become a successful exhibitor, breeder and judge. By profession he has been a canine

by Dick Yoho

The Dandie Dinmont Terrier – The True Story of Scotland ’ s Forgotten Breed by Mike Macbeth and Paul Keevil The recently published book, The Dandie Dinmont Ter- rier – The True Story of Scotland ’ s Forgotten Breed, is a momentous achievement which presents a time line of Dandie events in the breed ’ s history. Not the typical

book of the standard, etc., this tells us where our breed has been and is now. It is a time line, a sequential artistic profile of photography and paintings and com- mentary that show us people associated with the breed and dogs of record. It is a profound document of the Dandie Din- mont Terrier, a new historical picture and an amended history of our breed.

art dealer even longer. He has also been a freelance writer and photographer, hav- ing a regular art column in publications like the Kennel Gazette , Our Dogs and Dogs Today . As a photographer, he was The Kennel Club official photographer at Discover Dogs in London for five years and has worked with many canine chari- ties and organizations, having his photos

and articles published worldwide. He has been a constant campaigner for the Dandie Dinmont through his weekly breed notes to Our Dog as well as other British vulnera- ble breeds and is a founding member of the Kennel Club ’ s Vulnerable Native Breed Committee. Paul and his wife Sheila and their family of Dandies live in rural Surrey, England. 

The authors ’ outstanding bios stand alone.

Mike Macbeth is a founder and President of the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club of Canada and a life member of the Canadian Kennel Club. As an all - breed judge, she has adjudicated in over 30 countries and has been the judge at Crufts in 2022. In 2013, she was presented with a lifetime Achievement award by the CPHA, and in

Madame Editor: May I express, via the pages of Mustard & Pepper , my sincere appreciation to the executive and the members of the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club of America for the extraordinary honor bestowed upon myself, Paul Keevil and Professor Alexander Stoddart during the DD - 2022 event in Scotland in July. I also speak on their behalf. Receiving the honorary membership from President Richard Yoho was not only an immense surprise, it left me dumfounded. I am certain any mumblings of gratitude at the time were not only inadequate but inarticulate, as the recognition was so unexpected. I can only presume this tribute was due to our continuing efforts to promote the breed, such as successfully re- questing Richard, 10th Duke of Buccleuch, (Chief of the Scott Clan) to permit the Dandie to adopt Sir Walter Scott ’ s private tartan; our work to renovate Old Ginger ’ s kennel at The Haining, (now the Dandie Dinmont Dis- covery Centre); commissioning Professor ’ s Stoddart ’ s Old Ginger statue, and the three events we organized (2015, 2017, 2022) to bring the international Dandie community together in order to further unite and motivate us all. Mr. Yoho presented each of us with a stunning framed proclamation, created by his own artistic hand. It now hangs on my wall, making me feel both unworthy, yet with an embarrassed sense of pride. What I do in the ser- vice of the breed, I do out of passion and infinite love of the Dandie, as do so many more deserving others. Again, along with my colleagues, I thank the DDTCA for such a memorable tribute.

With eternal gratitude, Mike Macbeth

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