Your mission should you choose to accept it is...
Now I get asked all sorts of weird stuff, and as I'm at home today with a child snuffling I'm not placed to do them all.
We've already discovered that through this blog we can achieve great things.
But can we also look stuff up?
There will be prizes for those who come up with nuggety facts... how good are you at Googling?
Here's what I've been asked to discover ...
"We would like to pinpoint things like when dogs were first used for guide dogs, police dogs, 1st dog in space, change from working to domestic dog, first dog clothes shop etc? First doggie swimming pool? First skateboarding dog? First sniffer dog? First Hearing Dog? First Pet Passport."
Plus I guess they'd like any other milestones in dog history - first dog in Downing Street for eg?
Be very grateful for any facts you can uncover - dates and details really would be superb! Consumable doggie gifts for the best ones and/or free magazines for those further flung who can't be sent food.
Hope you can help! Deadline looming......!
We've already discovered that through this blog we can achieve great things.
But can we also look stuff up?
There will be prizes for those who come up with nuggety facts... how good are you at Googling?
Here's what I've been asked to discover ...
"We would like to pinpoint things like when dogs were first used for guide dogs, police dogs, 1st dog in space, change from working to domestic dog, first dog clothes shop etc? First doggie swimming pool? First skateboarding dog? First sniffer dog? First Hearing Dog? First Pet Passport."
Plus I guess they'd like any other milestones in dog history - first dog in Downing Street for eg?
Be very grateful for any facts you can uncover - dates and details really would be superb! Consumable doggie gifts for the best ones and/or free magazines for those further flung who can't be sent food.
Hope you can help! Deadline looming......!
Comments
Cheers
Beverley
"guide dogs, space dogs and hearing dogs"
despite professing to be at work and not having time to do it!
Commercial pet food really started in the 1860’s when James Spratt (a lightening conductor salesman from the US) arrived in the UK and noticed stray dogs eating hard biscuits thrown away by sailors
Really keen to have some wacky ones... first dog on TV? First on radio? First royal dog breeder? King Charles?
First dog to have a hot single...
There'll be a big prize for the fact that makes me laugh the most!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7785.html
Strongheart, was the first dog movie star of the silent era. He was before Rin Tin Tin. There is a wonderful book written by J. Allen Boone, Kinship With All Life, that should be on every person's reading list.
Rover
In 1905 the first canine movie star was featured in "Rescued by Rover"
Bob - The Parliamentary Candidate
In 1982 Bob, a Springer Spaniel, stood for Parliament representing "The Monster Raving Loony Barking Mad Dog Party". He was was owned by Lord David Sutch ( Screaming Lord Sutch)
SAUR or SUENING
A dog that was "king" of Norway for three years during the 11th century AD. The Norwegian king, angry that his subjects once deposed him, put Saur on the throne and demanded that it be treated regally.
Snuppy was "born" in April 2005
That's in this country.
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Laika, the first animal ever sent to space, rode to orbit in Sputnik II on the 3rd of November, 1957.
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Early in 1908 the first Police Dogs were used in the United Kingdom
Bob (Mongrel)
24 March 1944
6th Royal West Kent Regt.“For constant devotion to duty with special mention of Patrol work at Green Hill, North Africa, while serving with the 6th Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent Regt.”
The film is based on a short story ‘Lassie Come Home’ published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1938.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/659243.stm
Here's a silly one...
World’s first chapel for dogs opened August 2001 in the American state of Vermont, with pews and stained-glass windows depicting black labradors with halos…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/26/wdog26.xml
What stars you all are!
Of course a pet passport and his status as a registered assistance dog helped greatly with this feat!
Full story here
A formerly abused amputee dog has regained the ability to walk thanks to a series of groundbreaking prosthetic implant surgeries, according to Denver-based Alameda East Veterinary Hospital.
I believe I have the only British assistance dog to have his Good Citizen Dog Scheme (Bronze, Silver & Gold) awards from The Kennel Club and to have also his Canine Good Citizen Award from the American Kennel Club.
For what it is worth, he had to think about and train for his British awards, with the American one, he waltzed through it so easily, I doubt he even realised it was a test ;o)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2367681.stm
Thats a rather higher price than most pay for their 15 minutes of fame...