Jock and Trusty

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Jock and Trusty are two fictional animated dogs from the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp. They later appeared alongside Scamp, the son of Lady and Tramp, in several Disney comics, and were both present in the movie Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure. Even though they are decidedly opposite personalities, they tend to come as a package deal.

[edit] Jock:

Jock is a small but tough Scottish terrier. He possesses a slightly gruff personality, tempered by his essential good nature. He is clearly the brains of the duo, and frequently stops Trusty from repeating old epithets from his Grandfather, Old Reliable. At the same time Jock plays a main part in concealing an unfortunate fact from the bloodhound: he (Trusty) has lost his sense of smell. Although he is initially downright hostile to Tramp, Jock ultimately does his best to save Tramp from certain death in the pound.

During the original movie Jock gives his real name: Heather Lad o’ Glencairn. Presumably he answers to the name Jock in order to please his owners, as well as Lady. Since Lady of all the dogs in the movie seems to be the most closely bonded to humans, it fits that she calls him “Jock.”

In Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp’s Adventure, Jock is much the same as he was before: gruff but good-tempered, and frequently exasperated by Trusty.

[edit] Trusty:

Trusty is an old bloodhound, and decidedly the lesser brain of the pair. He has lost his sense of smell, but no one lets on that they know. And since he has apparently convinced himself that he still can smell, he lives his life in blissful ignorance, remembering, as Jock says, “those bonnie bygone days when he and his grandfather (Old Reliable) were tracking criminals through the swamps.” Apparently Old Reliable was not only a first-rate tracker but also a source of wise bon mots, for Trusty’s standard line is, “As my grandpappy, Old Reliable, used to say… don’t recollect if I’ve ever mentioned Old Reliable before.” However he has mentioned Old Reliable before, and quite frequently at that. When at last Trusty gets a chance to recall what it is Old Reliable used to say, he finally realizes that “I clean forgot what it was he used to say.”

Trusty is generally a doleful character, but a noble and loyal one. Despite his initial mistrust of Tramp, he is more than ready to risk his life to save Tramp, (his nose seems to work for once) and ultimately comes close to losing his life in the act. However, it has never been quite revealed for whether he did so for Tramp’s sake or Lady’s.

Little has changed about Trusty in Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp’s Adventure. His nose is still futile (or perhaps not quite so- the wig he tracked had been in contact with Scamp, and Scamp himself was at that very moment only just across the river), his memory is still largely dysfunctional, and he remains, overall, loveable but dumb as a post.