that Scotland is the native home of eleven breeds of dogs? The huge Scottish Deerhound, "Royal Dog of Scotland," whose ancestry can be traced back to the legendary "Bran" and "Sgeolan" of the giant Fionn MacCumhail; the Gordon Setter, favored for grouse and woodcock, whose origin is credited to an 18th Century Duke of Gordon, but may well go back another hundred years; the remarkably intelligent sheep-herding Highland Collie, Border Collie, and Shetland ("Sheltie") Sheep-dog; and the vermin- and predator-hunting terriers: Aberdeen (Scottish or "Scottie"), the Border, the Dandie Dinmont, the Skye, the West Highland White ("Westie"), and the smallest of all, the Cairn, are all not only irreplaceable working dogs, but qualities of loyalty and devotion
added to superior intelligence make them beloved companions of both children and adults. Authors who have written true stories of them, and famous personages who have owned them have endeared those breeds to dog-lovers everywhere: Albert Payson Terhune's "Lad," Eleanor Atkinson's "Greyfriars Bobby," Sir Walter Scott's "Maida," and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
"Fala"

 that in the 18th and 19th Centuries it was the custom of the shepherds to take their Collie sheepherding dogs with them when they attended kirk on the Sabbath? The dogs and their masters alike, patiently sat out the long Gaelic services, but during the last psalm, the canny dogs would rise, yawn, stretch, and then race from the church like impatient boys!

 that Scotland is the home of the widest extremes in size of the working horse: the Clydesdale and the Shetland Pony? The great Clydesdale, light of foot and broad of back, was the warhorse of medieval times, carrying his rider-knight into battle under 400 lbs. of armour. In later centuries he pulled the plough of the farmlands, and the draft-wagon of the teeming cities. Today, as a giant "show horse," wearing 7 lb. shoes called "Scotch Bottoms" and with his high-stepping gait called "heather-step," he proudly exhibits his strength and intelligence before crowds of awe-struck admirers.

 that the docile and sturdy Shetland pit pony, bred on the rugged, wind-swept Isles whose name he bears, was once condemned to a life of laboring in darkness, hauling the ore-carts in the mines of Scotland and Ireland? Now, happily, he is more often the pampered pet of devoted children around the world.
 

 that although Scotland's long-horned Highland red cattle are not so well-known elsewhere, her Ayrshire dairy cattle and her black Aberdeen-Angus beef cattle have long been the foundation of fine herds of these breeds around the globe?

 that Aberdeen-Angus cattle were first exported to the United States in 1883?