King of (Crichton) Castle
6 Comments Published by Gussie on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 5/28/2008 08:31:00 PM.
We visited Crichton Castle on Saturday.
Who would have thought Jake would have so much fun in a ruined castle? He liked it more than we did! Scrambling up and down the spiral staircases ...
... sticking his head thru the gun loops ...
... until we reached the very top, where Jake came over all fearty on the wooden slatted bridge. I thought his dislike of bridges was down to rushing water underneath but it turns out it's the slats, or to be more precise, the gaps between the slats.
All in all, it was a very dog friendly spot - the custodian refilled the water bowl specially for Jake, and said (without us having to ask) Jake could go off lead as he was the only dog. Though the lead went on PDQ when a grey-muzzled Patterdale Terrier poked its nose round the entrance a little later.
He looks very pleased with himself. I suppose greyhounds would have lived there when it was inhabited in the 1500s, no doubt being surreptitiously bred with the locals' sheepdogs. The original lurchers!
Who would have thought Jake would have so much fun in a ruined castle? He liked it more than we did! Scrambling up and down the spiral staircases ...
... sticking his head thru the gun loops ...
... until we reached the very top, where Jake came over all fearty on the wooden slatted bridge. I thought his dislike of bridges was down to rushing water underneath but it turns out it's the slats, or to be more precise, the gaps between the slats.
All in all, it was a very dog friendly spot - the custodian refilled the water bowl specially for Jake, and said (without us having to ask) Jake could go off lead as he was the only dog. Though the lead went on PDQ when a grey-muzzled Patterdale Terrier poked its nose round the entrance a little later.
He looks very pleased with himself. I suppose greyhounds would have lived there when it was inhabited in the 1500s, no doubt being surreptitiously bred with the locals' sheepdogs. The original lurchers!
What a beautiful castle. It is great that Jake could come too and the place was so dog friendly.
Oh wow, that is soooo cool. I love visiting old buildings and imagining the people who would have lived there so many, many years ago. Unfortunately, here in Canada we don't have a whole lot of 500-year old castles hanging around. :-)
Crichton had some interesting visitors before us ... Mary Queen of Scots, for starters. :-) We'll be trying to visit more Historic Scotland sites now we know that almost all of them are dog friendly. (I don't think we can complain about Edinburgh and Stirling Castles not allowing dogs - they are rather different to the ruins.)
Hello--so nice to meet you! We really love your blog and look forward to reading about more historic sites. I get to Ireland about once a year, and am looking forward to the time when I can hop over to Scotland, too.
Thanks, Kathryn & Ari. Scotland is only a very short flight from Ireland. :-) Hope you manage to get here sooner rather than later!
That Castle looks like a great place to hike around! What fun and off lead too - lucky dog!