It’s the meeting of two beloved New Orleans icons. Scrim, everyone’s favorite fugitive mutt, will star in a new children’s book to be published this fall by former television meteorologist Margaret Orr.
Based on a preview, “Scrim My Tail: As Told to Margaret Orr,” is bound to enthrall the small fry, and maybe dog-loving grown-ups too.
Orr’s take on Scrim’s epic travels through the Crescent City streets may surprise some, since it introduces a whole new motivation into the mix. Most onlookers believed that Scrim simply craved freedom and distrusted humans, fleeing from the well-meaning folks who set out to capture him and return him to domesticity at all cost…