#national puppy day
For National Puppy Day, some favorite pups in our Digital Collections. Woof!
From the Hugh Mangum Photographs, the Michael Francis Blake Photographs, the William Gedney Photographs (1,2) and the Sidney Gamble Photographs.
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The Following People Do Not Want to Chloroform the Puppies
In November, 1940, 10-year-old Kay Rae Roberts, pictured above left, fell in love with a fox terrier who had wandered into the home of her grandfather. She refused to leave without the dog, so home the dog came to 5415 Portland Ave. S, Minneapolis. Five weeks later, ‘Trixie,’ as Kay Ray named her, was discovered to be expecting. Later that night, Kay Rae overheard her parents talking–what to do with a house full of puppies?! “Perhaps we’ll have to chloroform them,” her mother said.
The next day, without a word, Kay Rae relayed the news to her classmates at Hale Elementary School and a petition was born. One particularly distraught child stopped at the Roberts home that evening and declared: “If the puppies are chloroformed, we’ll picket the house.”
Fortunately for the children, Mrs. Roberts was merely joking. “I couldn’t even chloroform a fly,” she declared. When the four puppies were born on Christmas Eve, everyone rejoiced. “Now I know what it is to become a father,” Kay Rae said with a sigh. She named the puppies Dick, Jerry, Don, and Bud.
March 23, 2022 is National Puppy Day.Photo P70606 from the Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. Story summarized from an article printed in the Minneapolis Tribune December 29, 1940.
Bringing some much needed puppies to your feed today. Happy National Puppy Day!
“Untitled (Two Dogs),” October 1940, United States. "Three Puppies,“ 1790, by Maruyama Ōkyo. ”Decorative Panel with Dogs,“ around 1900, by Maurice Biais. ”Untitled (dog ‘photographer’),“ around 1900, by Jeanette Bernard.
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Before I head off to bed…
I just wanted to post something in honor of “National Puppy Day”. Like most people who own a dog I think mine is just the best one there is, meet Whiskey. I’ve owned her since she was 2 months old, and literally fell in love with her at first sight. She was born from an accidental litter on a back woods Kentucky farm. She’s an Australian Shepherd/Beagle mix and has the perfect blend of both those breeds visually and mentally. I did not decide on doing “puppy classes”, but instead she has been trained by myself and I feel like I’ve done a pretty solid job. Before the age of 6 months she knew 5 commands including sit, speak, down, shake, high five and of course was taught to never snap at a human or other animal around food or under stressful situations. She has even progressed to learning roll over, stay, and can be left off a leash outdoors and will return when called!
She’s always by my side and has been loyal even on my darkest days.
I Love You.
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[Japlo ☀️] Today is the National Puppy Day! Here are some pictures of smol Japlo… ☺
Year:1972
Model(s):*, Tripper (Dog)
Photographer: Charles O'Rear
Designer(s):*
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Additional Information from Wikimedia:
Description: Files produced by Charles O'Rear on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.中文: 照片由（Charles O'Rear ）代表环保局提供
Date: between 1973 and 1974
Source:https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/sets/72157629983840058/
Author: Charles O'Rear
Additional Information from www.archives.gov:
Hitchhiker with his dog, “˜Tripper”, on U.S. 66. U.S. 66 crosses the Colorado River at Topock. National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency Charles O'Rear, Yuma County, Arizona, May 1972. National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency
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