Dogs
Hero Dog of the Year
In 1954, Ken-L Ration Dog Food began awarding a prize to the "Hero Dog of the Year." Sponsorship switched to Kibbles 'n' Bits at some point.Here is a list of some winners.
The latest year I can find when the award was given was 2004.
The American Humane Society seems to have taken over, or rebooted the award.
In any case, the award gives us a chance here at WU to carry forward one of our earliest missions: proving that cows are the most evil and deadly creature on the planet.
Article behind NYT paywall, alas.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 30, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Dogs, 1950s, 1980s
Black Knight, Freeman of London
Dominating the staircase is a big painting of Lady Violet Munnings riding a grey hunter, superbly assured against a finely painted sky and moorland setting. Lady Violet’s Pekingese, Black Knight, who was made a Freeman of the City of London (such are the benefits of dining with the influential), wrote a memoir that he called Diary of a Freeman. Actually I think he dictated it to Lady Violet, who was his devoted slave in all things. After he died she had him stuffed, and continued to carry him to the village on errands. He now reposes on a favourite cushion in a glass case beneath Munnings’s portrait of him, in a cubby hole off the main staircase. He remains extremely popular with regular visitors.
The artist.
Here is Black Knight's account of his life.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 24, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Art, Books, Dogs, Twentieth Century
Scrappy
Lots of archetypical 1930s weirdness in this cartoon.
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 24, 2018 -
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Category: Surrealism, Cartoons, Dogs, 1930s
Dog-Fur Boots
Tecnica is still around, and still selling boots. But none lined with dog fur any more, as far as I can tell.
Greenville News - Dec 11, 1991
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 22, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Shoes, Dogs, 1990s
Dog Oscars
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 04, 2018 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Movies, Dogs, 1940s
Ruff wedding
In 1994, guests at a wedding reception were expecting to see footage of the ceremony replayed. Instead they were treated to scenes of Derek Jeffrey in flagrante delicto with a dog, Ronnie. Because, oops, Jeffrey had lent his camcorder to a friend to video the wedding, but he accidentally left the wrong tape in the camcorder, and it didn't get fully taped over. He received a six-month suspended jail sentence for bestiality.The whole scene sounds so outlandish that I suspected it might have been an urban legend reported as news. But Snopes confirms that the story is true.
Sydney Morning Herald - Apr 21, 1994
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 16, 2018 -
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Category: Dogs, 1990s, Weddings
Shed Defender
AKA leotards for dogs. Available at sheddefender.com.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jan 09, 2018 -
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Category: Fashion, Patents, Dogs
Nixon and Snooks
Original article here.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 13, 2017 -
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Category: Government, Dogs, 1950s, 1960s
Coffee For Dogs
Nordic entrepreneur Jakutyte is trying to launch a new product on Kickstarter. It's coffee for dogs. Or, as she's calling it, "Rooffee." She came up with that name, she said, by combining the words roots and coffee. (Surprised me it wasn't Wroof and coffee... but that would be Wrooffee.) She swears she didn't know there's a date-rape drug called roofies. She's posted an update on her Kickstarter page saying she's gonna change the name... but hasn't decided to what yet.Her coffee for dogs doesn't actually contain any coffee. She says it's "a coffee type of drink made from Nordic wild roots containing no agricultural chemicals or pesticides, no caffeine, and no other nonsense." So it's actually brown liquid for dogs.
via buzzfeed
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 03, 2017 -
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Category: Coffee and other Legal Stimulants, Dogs
Wild and Wonderful
From the Wikipedia entry:Dick Vosburgh of The Independent commented, "Critics found it hard to accept that it had taken six writers to fashion the wafer-thin tale of a jazz flautist whose marriage to a French film star is threatened by the jealous tricks of Monsieur Cognac, her neurotic, alcoholic French poodle."[5] In his obituary for Tony Curtis in 2010, Dave Kehr dismissed the film as "disastrous," noting that Curtis was rebuilding his reputation after an earlier affair with Kaufmann, his co-star in Wild and Wonderful, and subsequent divorce from Janet Leigh.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 03, 2017 -
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Category: Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Dogs, 1960s
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