Fala, FDR’s Beloved Dog
The year was 1940 and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), the 32nd president of the United States had been in office since 1933, governing through the years of the Great Depression […]
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Retired Police Dogs Join Pet Detective Team
One of the wonderful aspects of being a dog, I would think, is that you are only as old as you feel.
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The Irish Setter and the Maine Environmentalist
Though two Irish setters lived in the White House (one briefly with the Truman family, and another later with the Nixons), the most loved Irish setter who belonged to an
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Bo, First Dog
Campaign promises are important, and none more so than a campaign promise made by a candidate to his family.
Dads in the Comic Strips
Today our cultural images of parenting are formed by movies, television, and what we see online. But in the 1940s and ‘50s, societal images were influenced by earlier forms of
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