Right on cue, Meggie gave the reporter a sharp bite on her nose! “Meggie, have you been a naughty dog?” the reporter asked the dog, adding: “Come now and confess to the public what you have really done.” Yes, She Has Been Naughty Perhaps you had better ask her about these reports.”īecause Meggie was right there in the room, Furman patted the sofa seat next to her, and Meggie jumped up beside her. Roosevelt responded by laughing and saying, “I am not with her all the time. During an interview with the president on more pressing matters, Furman asked about FDR Meggie’s reign of terror. When word of the little dog’s rambunctious behavior got out, newspaper reporter Bess Furman decided to get to the bottom of the story. Meggie, left, and Major, a former police dog. The article went on to call the dog “possessed of plenty of nerve and fighting spirit.”Įven Major, a former police dog, “knows better than to pick a scrap with her,” the article continued.
Meggie “terrorized the housemaids by chasing them down the halls and biting at their brooms, mops and dusters,” Coren writes.Ī March 1933 article from the United Press said, “Meggie is strictly a ‘one-person’ dog” - that one person being Mrs.
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Roosevelt refused to let anyone discipline Meggie, and the dog pretty much was able to have full run of the White House living quarters. “Terrorized the Housemaids”Īccording to Stanley Coren in his book The Pawprints of History: Dogs and the Course of Human Events, Mrs. Meggie was said to go everywhere with the First Lady, even press conferences - where she would bark to announce her presence.
The Associated Press reported that she was “ very fat,” hated baths, liked to sleep in fireplaces, and made a big stink any time Eleanor Roosevelt was around. Meggie was 8 years old when she arrived at the White House.
Roosevelt said, “and I shall enjoy doing it myself. “Someone will have to take the dogs and the car to Washington,” Mrs. In fact, Meggie - along with the Roosevelts’ other dog at the time, Major, a German shepherd - rode along with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on a six-hour car trip to the White House after FDR was first elected. 4.7/5 - (8 votes) Meggie stuck close to Eleanor Roosevelt.īefore he had Fala, our nation’s best-known Scottish terrier, President Franklin Roosevelt had another Scottish terrier named Meggie.
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