Comments on: Know your state dogs — a quiz

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:16:59 +0000

You left out NH. NH now has a state dog as well the Chinook. It became law on Aug. 7th, 2009.

State Dog. The Chinook is hereby designated as the official state dog of New Hampshire.

The Chinook, a sled and work dog, is the only breed to have originated in New Hampshire and one of the few created in America. The breed was started by Arthur Walden in Wonalancet NH in 1917.

The bill was the idea of a group of seventh graders at the Ross A. Lurgio Middle School in Bedford.

Karen, Thanks for the update.
John

By: Eighteenpaws

Eighteenpaws — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:15:05 +0000

Interesting and amusing!! Frankly, I never even knew there were “state dogs!” I then had to look up the state dogs of various states including my former home. Yeah, the state dog is probably much like the state bird — what you see or would expect to see is what you get. In the end I would just like to see : “State Dog: Mutt, and Preferably Adopted.”
Thanks for this JW!

By: Anne-n-Spencer

Anne-n-Spencer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:00:05 +0000

I’m not gonna take the quiz because I cheated. There was one type of dog on the list I’d never heard of.

As I’d suspected, it was a dog developed specifically for conditions in its state by people living there. Actually, I think the same is true for most of the dogs on that list. It’s nice to promote your state with something great that originated there. But I do feel a bit cynical about Missouri. If Newfoundlands could talk (and vote) they’d probably say, “No thanks.”