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As a small child she decided on her future life, and at the age of 21 took on her father's kennel of 64 dogs. Assisted by a head keeper and kennel boy, she began the training, breeding, feeding and cleaning which would preoccupy her for nearly 80 years.

Following Malcolm's death in 1965 Eppie Buist renewed her life's passion, and in Katewell's uncomfortable and impractical kitchen she would chop up sheep's heads and boil them with tripe to feed her dogs, of which there were never fewer than four in evidence.

She gave up driving at the age of 95, but retained her taste for excitement. Aged 96 she went up in a fibreglass T2 glider and a few weeks before her death stayed up half the night to watch a 128-some reel (an eightsome reel times 16) being danced at the 70th birthday party for her dear friend Jamie Grant of Roskill.

Her recipe for a long life was to eat lashings of cream, keep fudge in the car and consume a jar of ginger snaps on the way to church.