Scruff

[hellywelly4]

Poor Linda - I really thought she had found him. Glad they're carrying on with the storyline, anyway.

[-Talbot-]

You're joking?

They haven't found it yet?

[wolf63]

I have just seem a Facebook post saying "Scruff is alive". I have no idea what or who Scruff is but he is seemingly alive.

[UKSWF]

Come on scruff, please come home!

[mikey4444]

I really thought that we would have a happy ending last night. Poor Linda !
I am a dog lover and I know what it is to lose a much loved animal. But surely she would have had Scruff microchipped ?

[jourdain2]

I'm sure Scruff must be out there somewhere. Also, Linda would have him microchipped - but they can occasionally fail (happened to a friend of mine whose show dog couldn't travel to Cruft's!). Come ON scriptwriters, get on with finding him - and anyone in the area leave out dog biscuits!

[Hopkirk]

I bet Rob Titchener had a hand in Scruff's disappearance.

[ladybirder]

It, Talbot?? IT??? Scruff not an It! Have some sensitivity for our loss please.

Still hoping, at least he hasn't been forgotten.

[bookbinder]

Explanation for wolf63: Scruff is a dog that is the pet of a character in the radio soap The Archers. Scruff went missing some weeks ago, I think it was when Ambridge was being flooded by torrential rains. Scruff's owner, Linda, is very attached to the dog, and was - is still - very distressed that Scruff has disappeared. She has put the word out to various animal rescue centres about Scruff, and, in the latest episode, she thought that a rescue centre had found Scruff, but she was disappointed to find that the dog that they had got was not Scruff.

[mikey4444]

We mustn't forget that Scruff used to belong to Shula, but she gave him to Linda on a free transfer, because he upset the horsies, a hanging event to Shula ! Since then he has a very loving home with Linda, who I now feel very sorry for.

[hellywelly4]

Gosh, Mikey, you do know your Archers. I didn't remember that.

[mikey4444]

Hellywelly....I have been listening to the Archers for over 30 years, so I guess I have built up quite a bit of knowledge over the years !

[UKSWF]

//Hellywelly....I have been listening to the Archers for over 30 years, so I guess I have built up quite a bit of knowledge over the years ! //

How old is this blessed dog!!!!!

[jourdain2]

I can't remember ever not listening to the Archers. My mum had it on from the beginning - I can't remember much from the early years though and misses a lot when I was in my teens and early twenties. It's just one of those things that is part of my life.

[mikey4444]

jourdain2...me too ! Each day I work towards 19:02, and a cocktail !

I am old enough to remember listening to Mrs Dale's Diary !

" I'm a bit worried about Jim "

[wolf63]

Thank you bookbinder. I hope that Scruff returns and that he is the original Scruff and they haven't changed actors.

[mikey4444]

Wolfie....always a possibility with the Archers I'm afraid !

[wolf63]

Maybe a Yorkshire Wolfhound Mikey.




The little B that I live with is refusing to take his Prednisolone. Tablets + Cats are a bad mix.

[hellywelly4]

Mikey - what about Dick Barton, Special Agent. That preceded the Archers. I was about 10. Such a long time ago....

[mikey4444]

Wolfie....before I had Willy, I used to have a cat. In fact, at one point in the
mid 80's, I actually had three cats, which was at least 2 too many. They would gang up on me when I came home from work and insist on being fed straight away. I tried to ignore this but it proved impossible...with one cat, I might have stood a chance but with 3 it was just too difficult ! So I would be standing in the kitchen, with my coat still on, spooning out the Kitekat !


As for feeding them their tablets, I will agree that its a toughie. I would sometimes be able to crush the tablet up into a powder and mix it with some Marmite, or some very strong cheese. Other times I would have to resort to having someone hold the bally thing and I would push the tablet down its throat ! But then they would throw it up again !

Willy is altogether more amenable. The Marmite trick always works !

[mikey4444]

hellywelly4...I remember sitting on the carpet, listening to "Round the Horn", and laughing at Julian and Sandy so much, that I might pee myself ! Of course, I wasn't all that sure exactly what was funny, only that it was !

Ditto with the Clitheroe Kid, which was my absolute favourite. We were a radio-only family, until I was about 9, so I have always been a BBC fan, which is why I get very heated when the Beeb is criticised, as it is elsewhere on AB at the moment !

Long live the Beeb !