- Table of Contents, Introduction
- Excerpts:
- Homer's Odysseus' ancient faithful dog Argos is the only one to
recognize him when he returns from the Trojan War after twenty
years. Now neglected and covered in fleas, Argos lay on a dung heap
by the stables, but pricked up his ears at his master's approach,
wagging his tail and dropping his ears. Odysseus saw Argos but is
in disguise and cannot greet him, shedding a hidden tear for the
loyal hound.
- When French forces took the town of Niort during the Hundred
Years War' in 1373, a famous writer of the time saw an old dog
lying on the grave of its master, who had died in battle with the
English. The dog refused to leave the grave and the Duke de Berry,
who was greatly moved by such devotion, arranged for the dog to
receive a pension of ten francs for life, which was delivered to a
neighbor to feed the animal until it died.
- In 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a speech in response to a
Republican claim that he had sent a destroyer to pick up his dog
Fala from the Aleutian Islands at great cost: "These Republican
leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on
my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog,
Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family don't
resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is
Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the
Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a
story that I'd left him behind on an Aleutian island and had sent a
destroyer back to find him--at a cost to the taxpayers of two or
three, or eight or twenty million dollars -- his Scotch soul was
furious. He has not been the same dog since."
- Chips was a German Shepherd-Collie-Husky mix who served with the
Third Infantry Division during World War II. When Chips and his
handler (Pvt John P. Rowell) were pinned down by a machine-gun
nest, Chips stormed into the pillbox, grabbed one of the Italian
soldiers and forced the other four to leave the pillbox, where they
surrendered to U.S. troops. Later that day, he assisted in the
capture of ten soldiers. He was awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross, the Silver Star, and the Purple Heart. But these were later
taken away as awards to animals were "contrary to Army policy."
Nevertheless his own unit awarded him (unofficially) with a Theater
Ribbon and eight campaign Battle stars.
General
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