Dog News

You’ve probably heard of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s famous Scottish Terrier named Fala, Richard Nixon’s Cocker Spaniel called Checkers and, of course, Barack Obama’s Portuguese Water Dog named Bo — but have you heard of King Tut, Herbert Hoover’s Belgian Shepherd, or Laddie Boy, Warren Harding’s Airedale? With the 2016 presidential election over, we thought it would be fun to go back in time and meet some lesser-known First Dogs of the United States and share their claims to fame. Laddie Boy Caswell Laddie Boy was an Airedale terrier kept by Warren Harding. The photogenic dog, reports White House Historical Association

His Station and Four Aces by C.M. Coolidge, 1903. When people think of famous works of art featuring canines, “Dogs Playing Poker” tends to come to mind. What has become “cheesy” art along the lines of the Velvet Elvis was once a series of sixteen paintings by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge that were originally commissioned for an advertising campaign for cigars, two of which sold for a combined amount of nearly $600,000 several years ago. Think of that the next time you see a print of one of the paintings in someone’s “man cave.” But dogs have been the subject or