Shep, Faithful Dog of Montana
If you have ever visited Fort Benton, Montana, then you have seen the monument to “Faithful Shep” that sits above the river alongside the train tracks.
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During the “Dog Days of Summer,” we examined America’ stories through its dogs. You’ll be amazed by stories about the dogs of 9-11, the first seeing eye dog in the U.S., and how the K-9 corps of World War II was made up of people’s pets.
If you have ever visited Fort Benton, Montana, then you have seen the monument to “Faithful Shep” that sits above the river alongside the train tracks.
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The news that a dog had been an important member of the team that brought down Osama Bin Laden in the spring of 2011 highlighted the vital role dogs have
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Before Lassie and Rin Tin Tin, there was another canine screen star, one who starred in silent films. She was a Border collie, known as Jean, the Vitagraph dog. No
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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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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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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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