Scruffy the Miniature Schnauzer

Hi there. I am Scruffy the Schnauzer (actually I'm a miniature schnauzer), and am the boss in this household. 

My master says that I am ".. a dog of little brain...", but us Schnauzers are really quite bright. In fact we can talk, ... you should hear me on a Saturday or Sunday when it is obvious that my master or mistress have been on a trip to the local Tesco and have returned with some french bread. I am a sucker for the ends and I can count to two even though they sometimes try and cheat me of the second piece. Boy am I vocal then!! 

This routine is much more problematical now as we have a  new kitchen with a shiny wooden floor. I tend to forget this and go whizzing into the kitchen under full power and then have to engage full blown four paw breaking. If I get it wrong the end result is a lot of sliding and scrabbling with an undignified final stop much to everyone else's amusement.

Talking of kitchens my master says he is going to suggest a new Olympic event for Miniature Schnauzers called Dog Cheese Sniffing as he says I can detect the smell of cheese being taken out of the fridge from at least 20 yards, and would win this event paws down.

If you want more details on Schnauzers web-wide then you might wish to visit the Planet Schnauzer.

(note to humans:  Some humans try to use "minature schnauzer" to find me but they need to take spelling lessons, as miniature schnauzer is the correct spelling.)

Once my master has taught me HTML I am going to tidy it up and add a password on this page so humans can't get in!! However, in the meantime, I have persuaded him to let me have my own Email Id. so you can now email me at .

Mind you, the third EMail (way back in 1997!) I had was someone trying to sell me an aquarium!! But if you look carefully at the HTML for this page my master has found out a couple of sneaky tricks which make it more difficult for web robots and spiders to find my Email id but you humans can still see it.

Even the enemy, known as cats outside the dog world, also have a Web presence now, but the least said about them the better.

Even more interesting than the enemy are lady dogs and I have heard on the WWW "dog and bone" that there is a www site that sells software to keep tabs on what we have been up to, i.e. what humans euphemistically call dog breeding.

Since we  moved house just before the millennium  I now have to do evening Hedgehog duty in the bay window as the local hedgehogs regard our front garden as a prime nocturnal shortcut. The cheek of it !!