Posted on 11/01/2007 7:10:08 PM PDT by RDTF
Nos. 1 and 2. Strelka and Belka's successful orbit
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No. 3. How Peritas saved civilization
Without his dog, Peritas, Alexander the Great might have been Alexander the So-So. When the warrior was swarmed by the troops of Persia's Darius III, Peritas leapt and bit the lip of an elephant charging his master. Alexander lived to pursue his famed conquest, forging the empire underlying Western civilization as we know it.
No. 4. Charlie, Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis companion
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No. 5. Jofi, the first therapy dog
Sigmund Freud usually kept a chow named Jofi in his office during psychotherapy sessions, believing the dog comforted the patients. Freud's notes on these interactions, detailed in his diaries, form the basis of modern-day pet-assisted therapy.
No. 6. Urian bites Pope, separates church and state
Henry VIII sent Cardinal Wolsey to meet with Pope Clement VII, hoping the pontiff would grant the ruler an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. When the pope extended his bare toe to be kissed (as was the custom) by Wolsey, the Cardinal's dog, Urian, sprang forward and bit the pope. -snip-
No. 7. Newfoundland saves Napoleon
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No. 8. Nixon professes love for Checkers
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No. 9. Peps, Wagner's harshest critic
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No. 10. Donnchadh and the American Revolution
In 1306, when Edward I of England sought to bring down Robert the Bruce (and his ploy to rule Scotland), his men used Robert's own dog, Donnchadh, to find him. Though the animal led them to their target, he then turned and defended his master, who lived to become king of Scotland and produce a daughter who married into the Stuart family. Many generations later, the irrational actions of Robert the Bruce's direct descendant, King George III, would cause the American colonists to rebel.
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That’s nothing. My dobie is a Conservative.
Alexander’s empire is not the foundation of Western civilization.
“Ten dogs that changed the world”
That’s quite a stretch.......
I think most of them are a stretch, but whatever :)
You forgot to add Tango...
Better urian with a bandaid...
No. 6. Urian bites Pope, separates church and state
Henry VIII sent Cardinal Wolsey to meet with Pope Clement VII, hoping the pontiff would grant the ruler an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. When the pope extended his bare toe to be kissed (as was the custom) by Wolsey, the Cardinal’s dog, Urian, sprang forward and bit the pope. -snip-
Don’t forget General Patton’s dog willie....(chuckle)
I must wonder what the marvelously-named Tango did to change the world.
Is also a handsome dude(?)
Here are my two dobies.
You have some beautiful dogs. How many do you have?
I’m amazed that a chow could be used as a therapy dog. That breed is very unfriendly to strangers.
Didn’t they name the Baltic Sea in his honor after that?
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