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First edition The Great Cat and Dog Massacre is a history book by Hilda Kean. It recounts the story of the British pet massacre during September 1939, at the onset of World War II, when hundreds of thousands of British family pets were preemptively euthanised in anticipation of air raids and resource shortages. Kean also uses the episode to discuss people's feelings about their pets and the ...
Us, Our Pets and the War is a 2024 documentary film directed by Anton Ptushkin and co-produced by the Ukrainian company Vse Sam and the Canadian company Yap Films. [2] The documentary tells the story of the relationship between people and their animals against the backdrop of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine .
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, against the trend, managed to feed and care for 145,000 dogs during the course of the war and provided a field in Ilford as a pet cemetery, "where about 500,000 animals were buried, many from the first week of the war". [6] A famous opponent of pet culling was Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, a cat lover ...
Herr Pfister (the agent who hired the Brits) is late with the wages. We are introduced to the hardcase Magowan for the first time. Dennis and Oz take a trip to Liège to watch Sunderland A.F.C. even though they are Newcastle United F.C. fans. Oz's wife Marjorie meets Dennis's wife Vera as she has not heard from Oz in a month.
Smoky (c. 1943 – 21 February 1957), a Yorkshire Terrier, was a famous war dog, who served with the Allied Forces in World War II. She weighed only 4 pounds (1.8 kg) and stood 7 inches (180 mm) tall. Smoky is credited with beginning a renewal of interest in the once-obscure Yorkshire Terrier breed. [1]
Dogs for Defense was a World War II US military program in which the military asked pet owners to donate their pet dogs to the war effort. The dogs were trained and used for guard and patrol duties. To encourage donations, the dogs were deprogrammed and returned to their families after the war.
What Pet Should I Get? is a Dr. Seuss children's book, posthumously published in 2015. Believed to have been written between 1958 and 1962, the book chronicles the adventures of Jay and Kay from Seuss' One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish in their attempts to buy a pet.