Factory farming strikes again
That poor wee hybrid monstrosity looks nothing like our native wild haggis. Put it out on a hill or mountainside and it would just roll down without longer legs on one side of its body, and without proper teeth or claws it's basically defenceless against the trows that live in the hills.
As a foreigner from the EU mainland I had heard about the famous haggis dish. Never about wild haggis. The jokes made me wonder. Luckily I found a good read before I made myself ridiculous with all kind of questions.Factory farming strikes again
They were hunted almost to extinction at one point. No one is quite sure if that's what started the idea that they never really existed, or if that story was spread on purpose to limit the demand for their pelts.As a foreigner from the EU mainland I had heard about the famous haggis dish. Never about wild haggis. The jokes made me wonder. Luckily I found a good read before I made myself ridiculous with all kind of questions.
The Myth and Mystery of Scotlandās Wild Haggis
) and a plaque in the park nearby to mark the place it was shot, as it was the last of its subspecies.
Recently a GPT photographer saw 3 wild haggis and took this photo somewhere in the Scottish highlands.They were hunted almost to extinction at one point. No one is quite sure if that's what started the idea that they never really existed, or if that story was spread on purpose to limit the demand for their pelts.
There's a taxidermy Lowland Haggis in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow (the google algorithm that tags photos saved to your account has clearly improved - I used to be able to find this by searching "dog"
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