George Washington, First President and First-Rate Dog Lover   | 
Feb 21st 2011  |   0 Contributions  Share this image Today we
celebrate the birthday of President George Washington. He had no
human children, but thefamous father of our country was a doting
dad to dozens of dogs.  The majority of them were American
Foxhounds; Washington invented the breed in his quest to create,
he wrote,"a superior dog, one that had speed, sense and brains."
In the mid-1780s, the Marquis de Lafayette sent Washington
sevenFrench hounds, which theAmerican crossed with his own black
and tan hounds to create the new breed ofFoxhound. Do your dogs
have to be separated at meal time? Those French hounds did; to
avoid fatal foodfights,Washington assigned a servant to monitor
their feeding.  Our first president was a first-rate dog lover.
You might evencall hima Dogster.  Consider the namesWashington
bestowed on his dogs: Captain, Pilot, Searcher, Sweet Lips,
Truelove, Taster, Tipler, Vulcan, Juno, Jupiter. There were many
more, inc