October 2024
Dorothy Parker’s poodles were named C’est Tout, Cliché, Limey, Misty, Poupée, and Troy, short for Troisiéme.
According to a recent study at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, dogs seem to understand that words represent specific objects. Measuring participating dogs’ brain waves, researchers determined that they understood when someone tried to fool them regarding objects and words they were familiar with, such as showing them a stick, but saying the word "ball."
According to the pet-sitting service Rover, 51 percent of American pet parents say their pets have interrupted intimate time with a romantic partner.
In 1650, Robert Brooke and his family left England for the New World with a pack of foxhounds and settled in Maryland. Not used to the relatively great distances between colonial farms, Brooke organized regular fox hunts to get together with friends. The descendants of some of Brooke's original dogs wound up with George Washington, who crossed them with French hounds, eventually resulting in the American Foxhound.
In the Dick and Jane stories - a series of American reading books popular from the 1930s to the 1970s - one of the characters was a dog named Spot. In the earlier stories, however, Spot was a cat.