Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

This month’s issue is supported in part by SF Animal Medical Center and dog lovers like you.

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May 2022

The first guide dogs for the blind were trained in the 1750s at a Paris hospital.

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The first registered German Shepherd was named Horand von Grafrath and was born in 1895.

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Dogs are helping archeologists in Croatia sniff out tombs from the Iron Age, roughly 2,500 to 3,000 years old.

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The Greek word for hunter is κυνηγος (kinigos), which means “dog-leader.”

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Actress Selma Blair, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018, recently announced she has a service dog named Scout,an English Fox Red Labrador.