For National Dog Day Meet a Hero Dog From 1928
In honor of National Dog Daycelebrated on Aug. 26allow us to look back at the the first nonhuman to be a TIME cover subject a basset hound puppy who was a born show dog with champion parents. But the story, which was prompted by the 1928 Westminster Kennel Club dog show, took a much broader look at the state of dogs in America. "It would be idle to suppose that the tiny fraction of the U. S. canine population which last week posed and strutted in Madison Square Garden was in any sense the most important," TIME noted. "Other dogs did not pause last week, in the performance of their deeds and duties, to admire the antics of these prototypes.", Among the canine feats highlighted by TIME was one particularly heroic pooch, Download TIME's mobile app for iOS to have your world explained wherever you go