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The first dog known as a Kelpie was a black and tan female pup with floppy ears bought by Jack Gleeson about 1872 [12] from a litter born on Warrock Station near Casterton, owned by George Robertson, a Scot. [13] This dog was named after the kelpie, a mythological shapeshifting water spirit of Celtic folklore. [14]
Arawn, king of Annwn in some Welsh legends and associated with hunting, dogs and stags; Cernunnos, a horned god associated with fertility and hunting; Gwyn ap Nudd, another king of Annwn in Welsh Mythology, associated with the Wild Hunt; Nodens, god associated with healing, the sea, hunting and dogs
The Australian Shepherd is a breed of herding dog from the United States. The name of the breed is technically a misnomer , as it was developed in California in the 19th century. It is believed to have its origins in sheepdog breeds from northwest Spain , as well as collies imported, alongside sheep, from Australia and New Zealand ; the breed ...
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Baleia, the dog-companion that follows a poor family throughout the hardships of the 1915-drought in Brazil in Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos; Quincas Borba, the dog whose name is the same as his human's in Machado de Assis' Quincas Borba; Tentação, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Clarice Lispector
This is a list of dogs from mythology, including dogs, beings who manifest themselves as dogs, beings whose anatomy includes dog parts, and so on. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological dogs .
The MAS was bred first in the United States as a small herding and working dog. The Miniature American Shepherd (at that time still known as the Miniature Australian Shepherd) was first developed in the late 1960s by breeding what was thought to be small size Australian Shepherds, and by the mid-1970s the breed had reached its current desired size.
A dog adopted by the Heffley Family. Frank got the dog to satisfy Greg's wanting of a dog and his feelings over the loss of his pet fish. He (Frank) later gives the dog to the Heffleys' maternal grandmother at the end of the book. Timothy / Timmy / Tim: Mongrel: The Famous Five: Enid Blyton: All three names are found interchangeably. George ...