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Sammy as Red Terrier Dragon. Illustration by Gimlet Rose. © Nigel Enterprises 2015.
Sammy, Alabammy, O, he’s a heckuva dog. Sammy Alabammy, O he’s a heckuva dog. He’s a heckuva, he’s a heckuva, he’s a heckuva dog. — Old Dog Verse.
By Gimlet Rose
Sammy is now 11. He’s spent his day prowling like a barracuda inside the house, when he wasn’t snoozing, or going for a long walk, planning on a pizza dinner, and tearing into chews and new toys. He’s in Heaven. Or would have been, if wire fox terrier rescue people hadn’t stepped in.
Sammy’s more devil dog than wire fox terrier, a sort of furry dragon with that large yap of his. He has the most tremendous set of choppers I’ve ever come across, and that’s saying something. What does he do with a pie hole that size? Chomp and bark, of course. Mr. Perpetual Motion Tampamanian Devil is always looking for an angle, ever the opportunist, ever the terrier.
Funny, he’s never caught a rat. No interest in ’em. Not his style.
Happy birthday, Sammy, and may you have many, many more. Huffing and puffing and barking all the houses down, blowing and snorting fire and brimstone this way and that, part devil, part dog. All Sammy. He’s a heckuva, he’s a heckuva, he’s a heckuva dog.