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Rottweilers were known as Rottweil butchers' dogs in Germany, herding livestock and pulling carts of meat to market.
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pomeranianFind to reveal
Queen Victoria adopted a small red Pomeranian in 1888, and her favorites helped make the tiny size wildly popular.
chihuahuaFind to reveal
Chihuahuas can have a soft spot called a molera, resembling the flexible gap in the top of a human baby's skull.
dalmatianFind to reveal
Dalmatian puppies are born plain white, and their first spots usually appear within about ten days of birth.
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Racing greyhounds reach peak speeds of about 43 miles per hour, with all four feet airborne twice each stride.
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The schnauzer takes its name from the German word for snout, thanks to its distinctively bearded muzzle.
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Dachshund means badger dog in German, and the breed was built to scent, chase, and flush badgers from burrows.
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The bulldog got its name from bull baiting, an English sport outlawed by the Cruelty to Animals Act 1835.
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The name Beagle belongs to a hunting dog, Darwin's ship, and a Mars probe, giving one familiar name three very different lives.
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The poodle's German name Pudel comes from a word meaning to splash, and larger poodles retrieved waterfowl for hunters.
True stories · Nome, Alaska
The sled dogs that saved a town
In January 1925, diphtheria broke out in the icebound gold rush town of Nome, Alaska, and the only serum that could stop it sat nearly 700 miles away in Nenana. Twenty mushers and around 150 sled dogs carried the antitoxin across the territory in relay, covering 674 miles in five and a half days through subzero blizzards and hurricane-force winds. Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog Togo took the longest and most dangerous stretch, crossing the shifting ice of Norton Sound, while Gunnar Kaasen's dog Balto led the final leg into town. Balto's bronze statue still stands in New York's Central Park, honoring every dog in the relay.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.
Mark Twain
Trivia
Which spotted breed traditionally ran ahead of horse-drawn fire wagons and became the firehouse mascot?
The dalmatian.
What does the German breed name Dachshund literally mean?
Badger dog.
Which toy breed, the world's smallest, shares its name with a Mexican state?
The chihuahua.
Labrador retrievers were developed from working dogs imported from which island?
Newfoundland.
Roughly how fast can a racing greyhound run at peak speed?
About 43 miles per hour (69 km/h).
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Which spotted breed traditionally ran ahead of horse-drawn fire wagons and became the firehouse mascot?
The dalmatian.
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Buddy shows America what a guide dog can do
Morris Frank, a young blind man from Nashville, Tennessee, learned of a 1927 Saturday Evening Post article describing dogs in Switzerland trained to guide blinded war veterans. He wrote to its author, Dorothy Harrison Eustis, saying he would go anywhere to get his independence back. In 1928 he traveled to her Swiss school and returned with Buddy, a German shepherd, then proved her skills to New York reporters by crossing a chaotic waterfront street unharmed. The next year, Frank and Eustis founded The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog school in the United States. Frank also campaigned for access to public places for people accompanied by guide dogs.
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
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Sources: Chihuahua, smallest recognized breed (Wikipedia) · Dalmatian puppies born white, firehouse role (Wikipedia) · Greyhound peak racing speed about 43 mph (Wikipedia) · Rottweiler, Rottweil butchers' dogs (Wikipedia) · Schnauzer name from German for snout (Wikipedia) · Bulldog and bull baiting, Cruelty to Animals Act 1835 (Wikipedia) · HMS Beagle and its legacy (Royal Museums Greenwich) · Poodle, Pudel etymology and water retrieving (Wikipedia) · Pomeranian and Queen Victoria, 1888 (Wikipedia) · Dachshund, badger dog etymology (Wikipedia) · Labrador Retriever, St. John's water dogs from Newfoundland (Wikipedia) · Terrier etymology, Latin terra (Online Etymology Dictionary) · Chaser's word learning (Applied Animal Behaviour Science) · Spaniel etymology, Old French espaigneul (Online Etymology Dictionary) · Golden Retriever origins at Guisachan, 1868 (Wikipedia) · 1925 serum run to Nome, Togo and Balto (Wikipedia) · Royal corgis, Susan and more than 30 descendants (Wikipedia) · Pug, Chinese emperors and Pompey legend (Wikipedia) · English Mastiff Zorba, heaviest dog recorded (Wikipedia) · Whippet, the poor man's racehorse (Wikipedia) · Morris Frank, Buddy and The Seeing Eye (Wikipedia) · Mark Twain letter to W. D. Howells, April 2, 1899 (Goodreads citing Mark Twain-Howells Letters) · Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Schulz, 1962 (Biblio)
Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.