Dogs
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 42
This series has suddenly become topical!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 24, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Dogs, 1930s, 1940s
Mystery Gadget 100
What's happening with these poor doggos?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 11, 2022 -
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Category: Science, Dogs, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #525
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 02, 2022 -
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Category: Sports, Advertising, Junk Food, Dogs, Asia
A Wild Man of Alabama
Society does not tolerate outsiders and hermits very well.Source: The True Democrat (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)16 Mar 1853, Wed Page 2
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 07, 2022 -
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Category: Regionalism, Vigilante Justice, Hermits, Dogs, Nineteenth Century
Dog’s View
From the commercial's own Wikipedia page:
It was one of several ONDCP PSAs shown to increase cannabis consumption in teens.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 10, 2021 -
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Category: Drugs, PSA’s, Teenagers, Dogs, Twenty-first Century
Going to the Dogs
The 1986 play "Going to the Dogs" is the only play ever to have featured an all-dog cast. You can watch most of it on YouTube, if you can tolerate watching barking dogs. Parts 1-3 below, but there's 7 parts in total.More info: wikipedia
Des Moines Register - Sep 21, 1986
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 03, 2021 -
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Category: Theater and Stage, Dogs, 1980s
Pseudo Corpse Scent
The Sigma-Aldrich Corporation sells a variety of scents including: Pseudo Corpse I (that smells like a body less than 30 days old), Pseudo Corpse II (that mimics the dry-rot scent cadavers attain after a month), and Pseudo Drowned Victim.The scents are intended to be used for training rescue dogs, but I suppose they could also be used to enhance a Halloween costume.
Their product literature offers the following info about training dogs to find a corpse:
1 . Enthusiasm - the dog does not hesitate to approach the body. It may attempt to elicit a response from or urinate on the victim.
2. Cautious Interest - the dog slows its search, may become nervous and raise its hackles, but with encouragement, will approach the victim.
3. Avoidance - the dog will not approach the scent source and may actually attempt to leave the area. This behavior may become evident some distance from the body as the dog enters the scent cone.
image source: EliteK9.com
More info: Discover magazine
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 24, 2021 -
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Category: Death, Dogs, Perfume and Cologne and Other Scents
Stamp-Licking Animals
Martin Wainwright tells the following story in The "Guardian" Book of April Fool's Day:Like the best April Fool's jokes, this was to girdle the Earth. Not only was the post office besieged by punters wanting to send catlick mail (until the cat was driven demented and fled after two days) but the story spread and resurfaced for years. Animal protection societies weighed in, MPs spoke and the innocuous prank took off. Bone's friend was send clippings from across the country and, as the years went by, from Australia, Shanghai and the United States.
This suggests that stamp-licking animals were a journalistic invention. However, there do seem to have been some real-life examples of the phenomenon.
Longview Daily News - Dec 13, 1974
The Bloomington Pantagraph - Mar 11, 1951
"Ashley practiced stamp-licking until he had the task down purrfectly, then offered to kick off the Organization for Responsible Care of Animals' public appeal... In return for his generosity, each donor will receive a thank-you note enclosed in an Ashley-licked envelope with stamp attached."
Lancaster Sunday News - Oct 6, 1985
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 17, 2021 -
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Category: Cats, Dogs, Postal Services, Stamps
Owney, the Taxidermy Post Office Dog
Mail clerks raised money for preserving their mascot and he was taken to the Post Office Department's headquarters in Washington, DC, where he was on placed on display for the public. In 1904 the Department added Owney to their display at the St. Louis, Missouri, World’s Fair. In 1911, the department transferred Owney to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1926, the Institution allowed Owney to travel to the Post Office Department’s exhibit at the Sesquicentennial exhibit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 1964-1992, he was displayed at the Smithsonian museum now known as the National Museum of American History and in 1993 he moved to the new National Postal Museum, where he remains on display next to a fabricated Railway Post Office train car.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 28, 2021 -
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Category: Travel, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, Dogs, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Postal Services
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