Sam Is Our Tim Detector

No matter where we are, in our home town or a strange city, if there's a Tim Horton's outlet near where we're driving, he becomes very attentive, sitting up on the back seat of the van and watching in all directions until he spots it.

He then sits very quietly, almost holding his breath, waiting, straining to hear the sound of the signal light lever being moved. When it is, he's all over the back seat like bad weather; jumping and carrying-on, knowing he's going to get that tasty morsel known as a Timbit.

Sam is a normally sedate 8-year old Border Collie who just can't control himself when it comes to those wonderful little balls of fried dough.

However, if the vehicle should continue on it's way without the signal light being activated, his ears will drop and his head will hang as he watches that magical place of Tim's pass by and disappear from sight.