Obedience training with your West Highland Terrier can be a fun activity for you both. It gives them mental stimulation, which they enjoy, and it also helps you bond with your best friend and help shape their behavior into what it should be fo...

Training a West Highland Terrier is not such a hard task as it might seem. The key is to start early and make sure you have them well trained to understand your rules before they develop any bad behavior habits. In this case they may become ve...

The Western Highland White Terrier, often called the "Westie", is a terrier breed. They feature a rough white coat with deep eyes and pointy ears. The breed is assumed to have first appeared in the 1800s. They were originally bred for hunting ...

Popularly known as Westies, The West Highland dogs are part of the terrier larger family of breeds, so they basically posses most of this breed's characteristics. Hence, Westie is not really a lapdog - and if that is what you are seeking, this is...

By around the 1700s, the Isle of Skye and other highland regions in Scotland were already breeding lots of small terriers. Scottish breeds were separated into two sorts: the Skye terriers and the Dandie Dinmont terriers.The Dandie Dinmonts were c...

Westie is a dog built strong, deep and wide chest, straight topline and strong muscular thighs.The head is densely overgrown with hair and is hanging at a right angle or slightly less in relation to the axis of the neck. The skull is slightly ...

Breed Description The West Highland White Terrier is a small, hardy breed that is sweet and elegant looking. The females of this breed usually weigh between 14-18 pounds, and stands at 10 inches at an average. The males are slightly heavier, w...

Everybody loves a baby animal and Westie puppies are adorable, but new dog purchasers often do not realize the commitment they are making when they bring a puppy home. For those want the companionship of Westies dogs, but do not have the knowledge...

As in life for us humans, we can live a fairly health life if we take reasonable care with ourselves. Get the required amount of exercise and eat healthy overall. I say this because we all like to indulge at times and I also think this is importan...

I have fallen out with the neighbor more than once, over our Westie barking. I keep telling her that it is a perfectly natural and normal behavior in dogs, but that doesn't seem to satisfy her. God I wish she would get a life. However he does seem...