Famous Dogs – Interesting Facts |
Choosing a dog name
you may
want to give you some glamorous name previously known by some famous
dogs. Since dogs are domesticated they managed to earned the right to
be called “Man’s best friend” and become
valuable
members of their owners’ families because of such inborn
instincts like devotion and faithfulness. Dogs confidently fit into
people's life and society. Easiness in training and ability to feel
people’s psychological state helps them to gain popularity no
less than some members of the humane race can have.
There are famous movie and TV stars, fictional and of course rescue
dogs and those who took part in space exploration.
Lassie
Lassie, a famous rough collie who acted in a film “Lassie
Come
Home” (1942), is by right can be called the most famous dog.
The
name of the dog was Pal, he was born in 1940. Frank Inn and Rudd
Weatherwax were Pal's owners and trainers. Despite the fact that this
work considered to be difficult for a dog actor, Pal performed
excellent.
After Pal's death a great number of his descendants kept on portraying
Lassie. Although Lassie is the female
dog name, several boy dogs played Lassie's part, because male
collies considered to have better look on camera than female collies.
Marcs (1994-2006)
Marcs was a rescue dog of the Spider Special Rescue Team in Hungary. He
helped the rescuers to take people out of ruins. This German
Shepherd could determine by smell whether the person under the rubble
was alive or not. The dog gave rescuers signs, when the person was
already dead he lay and when the person was still alive he stood up,
began to bark and wag the tail. During the rescue mission in Turkey
after Izmit earthquake which happened in 1999, Marcs found a three year
old girl who spent 82 hours beneath the ruins. He also took part in
earthquake rescue operations in India and El Salvador. Today there is a
statue of Marcs in downtown Miskolc.
Laika
Laika was the first creature in space aboard satellite Sputnik 2. She
died because of the overheating and stress during the flight. The true
reason of her death was hidden till October 2002. Previous versions
were made up to keep back the mistake which was made by Russian
scientists.
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