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This week’s name is:

Igloo

Igloo was the brave, loyal, and valiant little Fox Terrier who belonged to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

Igloo accompanied Admiral Byrd on the famous expeditions to the North and South Poles, specially dressed for polar blizzards.

He had many experiences including being presented to the President, being showered with a ticker tape parade, and he appeared in countless books and news dispatches.

He was even the subject of a biography: Igloo by Jane Brevoort Walden (G. P. Putnam’s, 1931).

Picture Credit: www.goantiques.com

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This week’s name is:

Liberty

Although I have no opinion one way or another of President Ford as far as this blog is concerned, I did want to share this amuzing story I found about President Ford and his Golden Retriever Liberty.

One night when the regular caretaker for his dog Liberty was unable to be at the White House, President Ford offered to take care of the family pet. He was told that Liberty usually needed to make a late night “business” trip to the South lawn.

As scheduled, Ford and the dog left the White House without telling the secret service. As the duo strolled the grounds the service secured the White House second floor, as is done every night. Ford was unable to use the elevator or return to the private quarters until he alerted guards that he was locked out of the Mansion.

Text and Photo Credit: http://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/Pets/Liberty-Ford.htm

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This week’s name is:

Bingo

The boy on the Cracker Jack box is Sailor Jack and his dog is called Bingo. They were introduced as registered trademark logos in 1919 and in use as early as 1918. They were modeled on F. W. Rueckheim’s grandson, Robert, and his dog.

Frederick William Rueckheim was a German immigrant who invented Cracker Jack.

Rueckheim came to Chicago in 1872 to help clean up after the famous Chicago fire. He also worked selling popcorn from a cart. Together with his brother Louis, Rueckheim experimented and came up with a delightful popcorn candy, which the brothers decided to mass market.

Cracker Jack was first mass-produced and sold at the first Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. The Ferris Wheel, Aunt Jemima pancakes, and the ice cream cone were also introduced at the event.

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Fala

One of the most famous Presidential pets was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s constant companion, Fala.

Fala, a Scottish terrier, was given to President Roosevelt by his cousin, Margaret Suckley, who thought that the pup would ease some of the President’s stress during the difficult days of World War II.

Fala’s full name was Murray of Fala Hill after a famous Roosevelt ancestor. Fala almost never left the President’s side. In fact, when Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Charter in 1941 on the U.S.S. Augusta in the mid-Atlantic, Fala was right there with the two world leaders.

At the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., a statue of Fala sits next to that of his favorite companion, the President.

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Because of Veteran’s Day over the weekend our name this week is:

Willie

Willie was General George S. Patton’s Bull Terrior.

General Patton was an avid animal lover. He bought the first of many bull terriers just after World War I for his daughters, Beatrice and Ruth Ellen, and named him Tank. Although Tank turned out to be deaf, the girls loved him and called him by stamping on the floor. In spite of his deafness, Tank somehow always knew when Patton was arriving home and met him at the front door.

The most famous bull terrier owned by General Patton was purchased on 4 March, 1944. He was named Willie, short for “William the Conqueror.” Willie was devoted to General Patton and followed him everywhere.

When General Patton bought Willie, he wrote in his diary, “My bull pup . . . took to me like a duck to water. He is 15 months old, pure white except for a little lemin [sic] on his tail which to a cursory glance would seem to indicate that he had not used toilet paper. . .” Willie wore jingle bells on his collar so everyone would know when he was around. He supposedly had his own set of “dog tags,” too.

Photo Credit: This photo was taken by a U.S. Army photographer in Europe after D-day, in 1944 or early 1945. It shows US 3rd Army Commander Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. in his 3 star uniform and helmet surrounded by his staff of one and two star generals. At his feet is his English Bull Terrier “William the Conqueror” (usually called Willie).

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This week we look at two dog names:

Grenouille and Faussete

Perhaps the most famous dachshund lover of all, was Napoleon Bonaparte. In this early painting of the emporor as a young man, his trusty dappled long-hair dachshund Grenouille stands attentively beside him.

Later in life, Napoleon acquired a taste for smooth-hair dachshunds, like the one included in this later portrait, a female named Faussete, which was probably tan or red in color.

Napoleon loved these dogs passionately, and kept dachshunds with him his entire life. Although he was a fierce warrior general, and he respected the strength and tenacity of his dogs, Napoleon refused to take his dachshunds into battle, for he loved them so and could not bear the thought of losing them to the hand of an enemy.

Having owned several dachhunds over his life, Napoleon was known to weep for days when they died.

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This week we look at the dog name:

Mopsey

Mopsey was one of George Washington’s favorite Hound Dogs.

He had over 10 of them as well as other dog breeds.

Unfortunately because of the time, few notes were left about Mopsey other than brief mentions in several of his journals. Mopsey and her brothers and sisters were often noted.

Picture: George Washington out hunting with his hounds

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Highlighted this week is the dog name:

Scannon

This may or may not have been the name of Meriwether Lewis’s black Newfoundland that went with him on the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific.

Interestingly enough, for many years, scholars believed the Newfoundland’s name was Scannon, until 1984, when Donald Jackson (one of the pre-eminent Lewis and Clark historians) noticed a stream in one of Clark’s maps clearly designated as “Seaman’s Creek.”

He went back to the original journals, studied the handwriting, and determined that what previous editors had believed was “Scannon” was instead “Seaman.” (Which for a Newfoundland makes more sense than Scannon.)

Seaman is not mentioned in the journals after July 15, 1806, on the return trip, when Lewis was at the Great Falls and notes that his dog was being plagued by mosquitoes.

So, from the written record, we can’t say for sure what happened to him. But it is firmly believed by most expedition scholars that Seaman made it back to St. Louis with the rest of the Corps of Discovery. Why? Because it is inconceivable that the dog’s death, disappearance, or abandonment would have gone unremarked in the journals of Lewis, Clark, or any of the other men.

Information from pbs.org

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The dog name I chose to highlight this week is:

Balto

Balto was a black, long-haired Siberian Husky that led Gunnar Kasson’s Dog team in February 1925. Balto led the dog team through a blizzard to reach Nome, Alaska with antitoxin serum for the Diphtheria epidemic that was raging there.

A statue to Balto can still be found today in New York City’s Central Park.

Picture Credit: Celebrated sled dog Balto with Gunnar Kaasen. (Photo: Brown Brothers.) Norwegian immigrant Gunnar Kaasen was the musher on the dog team that successfully delivered diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in 1925. Lead dog for that final leg of the 600-mile trip was the indomitable Balto.

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The dog name I chose to highlight this week is:

Dash

Queen Victoria was a dog lover and Dash was her prized Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Dash was not one of the short-nosed varieties in vogue at the time.

The Queen’s diary reveals that the same day in 1837 that she was crowned, she came home to give Dash a bath.

Queen Victoria’s mother commissioned Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) to paint a portrait of Dash as a present for her seventeenth birthday.

Throughout her lifetime, Queen Victoria commissioned many dog portraits. Although artwork featuring dogs goes back centuries before her time, her influence significantly increased the popularity of dog art, especially portraits of pet dogs.

Prior to Queen Victoria’s time, dogs in paintings had primarily been represented in sporting scenes.

Picture Credit: Sir Edward Landseer (1802-1873), Queen Victoria’s Dog, "Dash";

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