Today I learned that the plural for haggis is "haggei and the collective noun for haggei is a “stoochie” and baby haggei are called “hagglets”
There you go.
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I need one of those Fife shroomus finders!!
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That is just offal!
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I wonder if Haggei would make good pets?
But how would one catch a wild Haggis, perhaps scatter a dram of whiskey and a handful of oats and recite bad poetry to lure them out from under the IrnBru bush where they like to hide out?
I think you are about 21 days too late. Or 344 days too early.
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I don’t think they look sleekit or tim’rous, though. They look like guinea pigs.
There has been reports of an outbreak of Haggei .
I should tell you the species in Fife are known as “haggi” without the e. They have 2 long legs on one side of the body and 2 short legs on the other. This enables them to run sideways up places like Falkland Hill 
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Are you sure those aren’t Durfels? Unlike most other mammals Durfels don’t mate for life but prefer their seclusion. In fact, in many Scottish valleys you will only find one Durfel. But what a one-Durfel valley that would be.
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Oh. I have done it…
Showed she-who-did-not-runaway videos of the wild haggei of Scottland…
“Oh how cute, they look like little sheep, never heard of them and they live only in Scottland?”
I am going to milk this for a long time, because if and when we do a trip I will have her looking for the wild haggei.
In the meantime I need to work on my pokerface whenever the topic of the wild haggei comes up..
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Also tell her about the selkies:
“I am a man upo the lan,
An’ I am a silkie in the sea,
And when I’m far and far frae lan,
My dwelling is in Sule Skerrie.”
https://secondhandsongs.com/work/210172/all
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And then there was the time the Cheers crew took Frazier snipe hunting…
I just learned about Selkies a few years back from “Bad Machinery” a web comic from John Allison.
I also learned what Gimlet eyes are and that “Obbly, obbly, obbly” is a working sentence.