Join us on our walking tours of
#Edinburgh
. We share stories, myths, and legends of Scotland as a tribute to our beloved, former canine tour guide, Sawyer.
This will be the hardest thing that I have ever written.
Today our hearts are in excruciating pain because we had to say goodbye to our sweet Angel-Baby Stirling.
We don't usually share much personal information online, but wanted to let you know what has happened.
Good night my friends! This is my last walk as tomorrow I'll join my brothers Finn and Stirling. Don't worry- we'll continue to give tours over the Rainbow Bridge!
It's been my honour to be your guide to
#Edinburgh
and
#Scotland
. Until we see each other again!
Love,
Sawyer
With the heaviest of hearts we want to let everyone know, that our beloved Sawyer has been fighting a losing battle against an aggressive form of bone cancer.
We have exhausted every possible option, but due to his age and the spread of the cancer- we have (contin.)
Today marks a big day for the
#WeeWalkingTours
family because we're celebrating our wee Stirling's 1st birthday!๐๐We invite you all to the party as Stirling celebrated by making his first visit to Stirling๐
#DogsOfTwitter
#Scotland
(Thread) Please send your prayers and all the good energy that you can muster to our wee Arthur! He started having diarrhea yesterday and it gradually got worse. We rushed him to the vet, where he was put on IV and then through a battery of tests.
They found a blockage in ๐
We're celebrating the 7th birthday of our beloved Sawyer!๐๐พHe's truly the star of our tours, and brings so much love and joy to our family and all who meet him.๐๐พHere's to future adventures around
#Edinburgh
and
#Scotland
! ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐๐พ
#GlencoeVisitorCentre
#ScotlandIsCalling
It has been a week since our beloved
#SawyerTheGoldenGuide
crossed the Rainbow Bridge, and I have to admit that it has been a real struggle for us to come to terms with our new reality - our lives without our magnificent, fluffy giant of a goofball! (contin.)๐
Our beloved Finn has crossed over the Rainbow Bridge.
As we grieve, we also want to celebrate his incredible life and legacy as a Rock Star dog, so if you want to see more, please check out our tribute-
#RainbowBridge
#BestDogEver
#Labrador
#Edinburgh
Sawyer honouring his remarkable little brother, Stirling, who would have celebrated his 2nd birthday today.๐๐พStirling is now a tour guide on the rainbow bridge๐ - guiding all of his sisters and brothers home! RIP my sweet baby boy!
#Edinburgh
#Scotland
Our wee Arthur is home! He is recovering 'comfortably'?! Despite the fact that he has a crate with a comfy bed, a playpen with another comfy bed, and a few memory foam dog beds to choose from...this little nutter has wedged himself in a wee corner in the living room lying on a ๐
Thank you so much for all of your well wishes, positive vibes, healing thoughts and prayers! Please, keep them coming, because they are working! I have successfully made it through the first 24 hours past my emergency surgery for intussusception.
If everything continues to๐
72 hours after his surgery for intussusception, Arthur is feeling good today. He was clearly enjoying the Scottish sunshine during a wee break in the back garden and showing some
#WeekendSmiles
.
Some of his pre-surgery spunk and feistiness is also coming back!๐ So, we ๐
We just wanted to let everyone know that our wee Arthur is doing great! He has recovered from his surgery fabulously and he is back to being a busy puppy, playing with his big brother Walter, and keeping us on our toes as he tries to eat everything in sight!๐
He is out of the๐
Welcome home, Arthur! Meet the newest member of the Wee Walking Tours' family with a small intro and more photos-
We can't wait for all the adventures that he and Walter will go on! ๐๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#GoldenRetrieverPuppy
#Edinburgh
#Scotland
We are so very sorry to share this horrible news with you all, but please know that your love and support to Sawyer, and the rest of us for the past years, has truly meant the world to us.
We will be back, and we will always continue to honour the most incredible dog - Sawyer!
I know that we've been absent from social media for awhile after Stirling departed to become a guide dog on the rainbow bridge, but we do want everyone to know how much we have valued the kind responses, love, and support we have received from so many of you. As for Sawyer, and
reached the end.
We'll be spending the next couple of days with him before he crosses over the Rainbow Bridge to be once again reunited with his brothers Finn and Stirling.
We know that Sawyer has and is being loved by people the whole world over, and that's why we (contin.)
Thank you for the incredible and joyous two years that made are hearts full! Now go roam free in the Highlands! Bye my Baby!
#WeLoveYou
#Stirling
#HeartBroken
would have been cruel and horrible for Stirling's quality of life. Therefore, we made the hardest decision of our lives as we said our goodbyes and let our baby cross over the rainbow.
My heart is breaking.
We want everyone to know that we've been reading all the comments and posts, and are overwhelmed with the incredible outpouring of love for our sweet boy, Sawyer. We are still in shock and grieving his loss, and can't respond to everyone, but know that we appreciate you all!โค๐พ
#HappyNewYear
! Come meet and say hello to Walter!๐พ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
If you've been following us, you know that 2023 was a very difficult year for our Wee Walking Tours family with the devastating loss of our precious angel boys- wee Stirling, Rock Star Finn, and๐1/
To my sweet Stirling - you were the greatest friend and a brother to Finn and Sawyer. You will forever live in our hearts. I'm certain that you will have our old buddies welcoming you on the other side. Make sure to also say hello to Greyfriars Bobby.
Remember- you are a star and heaven just received the best canine tour guide ever! Until we see you again- we love you and know that your soul will guide us forever forward!
wanted to inform you all.
But, we also hope you understand that we will not be very active on our social media channels for awhile.
We will try to post something when he crosses the Rainbow Bridge, but I can't promise anything. Right now, I feel just so much pain. (contin.)
His time with us has been so short and it is so unfair what has come to pass. Our baby was the sweetest and gentlest soul with a loving heart. But, unfortunately his liver never developed properly, and he outgrew it to the point that he was starting to suffer from fluid buildup
that you can share, and please love your puppies and dogs. If you've been following us for awhile, you'll understand how this has been a very difficult past couple of days for us, but we have hope and faith. ๐โค๏ธ๐พ
With the news about the tightening lockdown restrictions, we felt that it is a great time for some
#puppytherapy
.๐๐พHere is a throwback photo of our
#tourguide
, Sawyer, when he was just a wee pup! He wants you to know you can continue to
#travel
around
#Scotland
with us...1/2๐
We still have a long list of blog post articles to publish that will feature Stirling, so please bear with us as we will continue to grieve, but also honor Stirling's memory with the telling about his adventures around bonnie Scotland.
Happy 8th Birthday to Finn!๐ ๐ฅณYou're the sweetest and smartest dog ever!๐พHe's such a great brother to Sawyer and now Stirling too! To celebrate we had a party with
#pupcakes
and a new friend for Finn- Nils Olaf the
#KingPenguin
(from
@EdinburghZoo
)!๐พ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#Edinburgh
#Scotland
It has been a while, but as you might know we have been dealing with the heart-breaking loss of our precious wee Stirling. However, if you get a chance, please check out our tribute post to him-
๐๐พ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#Edinburgh
#Scotland
#GoldenRetriever
and bloating that was impacting his other organs.
Despite all of our efforts with diets and exercise, and all the help from our wonderful vets - we reached a point where we knew that there was nothing else left to do, and to prolong the fight
so we are hopeful that he will pull through, heal and recover soon and return to the active and happy puppy that he is. Hopefully, this whole episode will be a thing of the past and that he will go on to live a happy, healthy and long life.
Thank you for all the positivity ๐
small intestine, and he ended up having surgery earlier today. The surgery went well, and he is recovering, but he is not completely out of the woods yet.
Arthur was diagnosed with an intussusception, condition that can sometimes occur in large breed dogs, and the cause ๐
Happy belated 1st birthday to our Walter!๐ฅณ๐พ We're celebrating his birthday now, but it was actually on 27th January.
However, on that day, we had the funeral for my mother in Finland who lost her battle with cancer earlier in January. Hyvรครค taivaallista matkaa rakas รiti! 1/๐
constant monitoring at veterinary hospital in case of any possible post-surgery complications.
The next 24 hours are crucial, and even then, it will be important for his recovery to go well for the following days. But, our vets are Incredible and he is receiving great care, ๐
is often unknown. Essentially, his small intestine had folded and turned on itself. Which actually had caused some of the tissue to die. The surgeon successfully removed all the dead tissue, and like I said, our wee baby is out of the surgery, but he will remain under ๐
*Disclaimer* Everything in this photo is very real. However, the sky is from above the
#ArcticCircle
, and Sawyer and the rest are from here in
#Edinburgh
,
#Scotland
. We've clearly been dreaming of the
#PolarNight
.๐We wish you all a happy and healthy
#NewYear
!๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#HappyNewYear
Wait! What? You want Sawyer to be your guide to the city of
#Edinburgh
? Okay, well let's go! It's easy- just go to๐ and book your tour! Have a wonderful week, and we look forward to seeing you soon! ๐๐๐พ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#TheVennel
#ForeverEdinburgh
@VisitScotland
Wee Walking Tours' Golden Retriever puppy, Walter, is in training to be a tour guide someday, and can be seen here working on his 'camouflage badge', as he tries to blend in with the golden hues of the former St Kessog's church in
#Callander
.๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#WalterTheGoldenGuide
#Scotland
Sawyer and Stirling were happy medieval knights today at the Traquair Medieval Fayre!
It was a lovely day of jousting, fencing, falconry....and sausage rolls!๐๐พ๐โ๏ธ
It also included a tour of the oldest inhabited house in Scotland-
@traquairhouse
!๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#ScotlandIsCalling
๐ถYou got troubles, I've got 'em too
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and see it through
'Cause you've got a friend in me๐ถ
Learn how Stirling joined our family๐๐พ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#Edinburgh
#DogsOfTwitter
#GoldenRetrievers
#PuppyLife
Happy St. Andrew's Day to all Scots- old and new, Scots here and everywhere, and to all who are Scots at heart! ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Kind regards from the Wee Walking Tours family and our angel- St. Sawyer!๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐๐พ๐
#Athelstaneford
#StAndrewsDay
#ScotlandIsCalling
We're honoured that we've received the Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice Award!๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
We dedicate this award to our beloved Sawyer. Although he may no longer be with us, we wouldn't still be doing our tours if it wasn't for his legacy. This one is for you my angel!โค๏ธ๐๐ฆฎ
#Edinburgh
Wee Walking Tours canine tour guide, Sawyer, enjoying a beautiful sunny day in
#DeanVillage
, in
#Edinburgh
,
#Scotland
. He is sending loving greetings and a wee bit of doggy therapy to the whole world. Stay safe and healthy friends!๐๐๐พโค๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#DogTherapy
#TravelInspiration
150 years ago
#OTD
in 1872,
#GreyfriarsBobby
- one of the most remarkable dogs in history passed away in
#Edinburgh
. His story has inspired many, and is a legacy of loyalty, kindness and friendship! Sawyer especially loves his daily visits to see Bobby at
#GreyfriarsKirkyard
.๐1/2
Sawyer is a man on a mission with a friendly reminder for everyone to
#RespectProtectEnjoy
the beauty of
#Scotland
! We should always respect one another and protect our environment so that we can all enjoy what Scotland has to offer!๐๐พ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#Edinburgh
@VisitScotland
Stirling enjoying his very first snow!!!๐๐พโ๏ธOf course his big brothers- Finn & Sawyer- joined in on the fun!๐๐พ๐๐พโ๏ธโ๏ธ
#FirstSnow
#Edinburgh
#DogsInSnow
Today the Wee Walking Tours family are celebrating the birthday of one of the most integral parts of our team- Finn- who turns 7 today!๐๐๐พ๐He thoroughly enjoyed his homemade "pupcakes", which he shared with his little brother Sawyer.๐๐พโค๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
#Edinburgh
#Scotland
#dogsoftwitter
Here's another shot of Walter, guiding and modelling, during our previous visit to the beautiful town of
#Hawick
in the
#ScottishBorders
. I do want to point out that the Scott tartan lead and collar look quite nice on our wee-Sir Walter 'Scott'!
This isn't a paid ad, but if๐
What's your favourite Scottish castle?๐ฐ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Sawyer, the Golden Retriever Tour Guide, has many, but I know that
#CastleCampbell
ranks pretty high on his list. That's because he loves to hike around the gorgeous
#DollarGlen
.๐๐พ
#ScotlandIsCalling