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List of historical dogs
List of historical dogs
- Balto, lead dog of sled-dog team that delivered medicine from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska to save Nome from a diphtheria epidemic
- Barney, US President George W. Bush's Scottish terrier.
- Belka, dog aboard Sputnik 5[?].
- Boatswain, favorite pet of Lord Byron
- Buddy, US President Clinton's chocolate Labrador retriever.
- Centaur Pendragon, Rudolph Valentino's Irish Wolfhound
- Checkers, US President Nixon's cocker spaniel, made famous in the Checkers speech[?]
- Diamond, Sir Isaac Newton's favorite dog.
- Jack, US President Roosevelt's terrier.
- Murray of Fala Hill (or Fala), US President Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, given by his cousin, Margaret Suckley.
- Laika, the dog aboard Sputnik 2.
- Manchu, Alice Roosevelt's small black Pekingese which she received as a gift from the last empress of China.
- Millie, US First Lady Barbara Bush's springer spaniel.
- Nigger, a black labrador retriever who gave his name as the codename for the Dam Busters[?] mission in World War II. (He was given the name solely because he was black, but it is usually edited out of modern versions of the film about the mission.)
- Pete, US President Roosevelt's bull terrier, who bit so many people he was exiled from the White House.
- Robot, dog who discovered the cave paintings at Lascaux
- Sailor Boy, US President Roosevelt's Chesapeake retriever.
- Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland during the expedition.
- Skip, US President Roosevelt's mongrel.
- Spot "Spotty" Fletcher, US President George W. Bush's English Springer spaniel , named after Scott Fletcher, a former Texas Rangers baseball player.
- Strelka, dog aboard Sputnik 5[?].