Word: kennelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John received his biggest publicity splash in 1933, the day after Harvard upset Yale by a 19 to 6 margin. Two days before the game, some gentlemen from the Lampoon abducted the Eli mascot, Handsome Dan II, from his New Haven kennel. The Sunday following the game, newspapers all over the nation ran frontpage photos of Dan licking John's feet--or, at any rate, his pedestal. The pictures did not reveal the raw hamburger that was smeared at the base of the statute...
...last week, some 14,500 people milled through a maze of cages, inspecting hundreds of fluffy little animals with faces like rabbits and tails like anemic squirrels. The animals were chinchillas; the occasion was the Eastern show of the National Chinchilla Breeders of America, a sort of Westmin ster Kennel Club for rodents and the trade association for one of the strangest businesses in the world...
...been trained to the tail tip, each had survived a two-day ordeal of poking and prodding by judges. Each was the best of its breed and the best of its group. Now, from all the 2,451 dogs originally entered last week in the 76th annual Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden, the judge had to choose one as the best...
Bred to Order. Listed today by the Canadian Kennel Club as thoroughbreds, Little River duck dogs like Dusty and Tootsie were a mongrel breed at the turn of the century. They were bred, so the story goes, to emulate the sly fox that hunters had watched flashing his tail to lure ducks ashore for his morning breakfast. The cross-breeding that first took place in the Little River district of Yarmouth County included collies (for their luxuriant tails), Chesapeake Bay retrievers (for their abilities on the hunt) and spitz (for their playful habit of chasing sticks all day). Somewhere along...
Even before the official recognition of the Canadian Kennel Club, the Little River dogs had developed into essentially a "pure" breed. They had been mated only with their own type for generations. Now the standard Nova Scotia tolling dogs are about 18 inches high, have thick, high-riding tails, and are the color of a red fox. Beneath their silky coat is an undercoat that makes their fur almost water-repellent. Brought up in most cases among the domesticated ducks of Yarmouth County's farms, they seldom lose control while tolling. They never bark before a shot is fired...