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.