Famous Dogs Posters
for the classroom; theme decor for home and office.

Charley was author John Steinbeck's dog companion on a road trip through America in the 1960s. Charley was a French standard poodle.

FYI - Steinbeck traveled in a specially made camper he called Rocinante after Don Quixote's horse?

The first space passenger to orbit the Earth was Laika, a stray dog, launched by the Soviet Union on November 3, 1957.

Laika died a few hours after the launch, possibly due to stress and overheating cause by a malfunction of the thermal control system. The U.S. used chimpanzees as test subjects.

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This painting of a Jack Russell Terrier named “Nipper”, listening to a gramophone, and named His Master's Voice (HMV), was one the most recognized commercial logo and trademark. The original painting was of a phonograph.

No image of hunting dog Old Drum exists but his name resounds because of George Graham Vest's “Eulogy on the Dog”. Old Drum had been shot and killed while on the property of a sheep farmer in Pettis County, Missouri. The trial for damages went all the way to the Missouri Supreme Court.

Eulogy on the Dog

“Gentlemen of the jury: The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man’s reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.

Gentlemen of the jury: A man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death.

FYI - Old Shep, a dog from Montana, waited for his master at the train station for six years - Eulogy on the Dog was read at his funeral.

Seaman was the black Newfoundland dog that accompanied his master, Meriwether Lewis, on the Corps of Discovery, better known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Psychologist Ivan Pavlov developed an example of classical conditioning with dogs: he rang a bell, the dogs salivated because they had come to associated the bell with a treat.

Doubt conditioning? - Go ahead, grab the leash and see what happens!

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