On May 13, 1874, a man in New York named Charles Walker was arrested for working his dog on a cider press. This is a chance to talk about the labor history of animals! We don't usually think of animals when we think of labor...
dogs
This is the grave (OK, memorial) to Toto the dog. And I don't care that this isn't really a grave. Could I really pass up on this? No! Born in.
Oh, hey, what's the conservative judicial hacks up to these days... BREAKING: Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a FOIA lawsuit against the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Edwin S. Porter's 1904 classic Dog Factory is a must watch film for all. Well, except maybe your dog loving children. This film is also featured at the National Film Preservation Foundation website, with an interesting explanation about why so many very early films survive...
In case you missed it: In a recent interview on an ABC podcast, Wally Conron says the invention [of the labradoodle] is his "life's regret" and he hasn't "got a.
Last night's discussion of early silent films means that the unlimited demand for these posts forces me into another. Here is Dog Factory, from 1904.
A gallery of the last twelve surviving rescue dogs who worked the aftermath of the World Trade Center collapse.
This story on dogs in the military reminded me of the odd memorial at the University of Tennessee for the dogs killed in the battle to liberate Guam in 1944.