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📚🐕 Telling the stories of good dogs throughout history.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Paris, 1955.⁣

Photo by Pierre Boulat
March 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American Oscar winner (“Gone With the Wind,” 1939) in 1951. She was the special guest presenter of graduation certificates for dogs and owners at International Guide Dogs, Inc., today’s Guide Dogs of America, in Southern California.

Photo courtesy of the AKC.
March 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Camouflage!
February 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
1914.
February 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Who’s watching the Westminster Dog Show??
February 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The winning answer that Tatiana Castro gave to the final question during the 1994 Miss Colombia competition. Minutes later she was crowned Miss Colombia.
February 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
In 2021, Finley set the Guinness World Record for “most tennis balls held in the mouth by a dog.”⁣⁣
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Finley, a Golden Retriever from Canandaigua, NY, has loved tennis balls since he was a puppy.
February 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A stele depicting a fight between a dog and a cat. 510 BCE, relief from the Kerameikos necropolis in Athens, Greece. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
February 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Dog eating snow in the West Village, 1988.⁣
📸: Andy Levin
February 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
BBC News, February 11, 1983.
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist Lena Horne with her pug Nellie. Horne was the first African-American star to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio (MGM).⁣⁣

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February 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
January 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
1905.
January 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Portrait of Bianca degli Utili Maselli and Her Children, ca. 1604-5. Oil on canvas, 39 x 53 1/4 in. Portrait by Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552-1614).⁣

Bianca degli Utili Maselli (1568-1605) was a Roman noblewoman who bore 19 children before dying from complications of childbirth at the age of 37. ⁣
January 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“A Very Small Dog”, Jamie Wyeth, 1980, Oil on Canvas.
January 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Dog of Randall the Jeweler, ca. 1875.
January 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Still figuring things out here. I’ll kick off my Bluesky debut with some old favorites. Stay tuned.
January 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
All dogs are good dogs.
January 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM