First Dogs by Brooke Janis

Author:Brooke Janis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2009-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

JUST CALL ME BRUCE

Whitestock Service Man, AKC 392,496 and aka Bruce, was given to President Wilson shortly before the President’s death. The alert pup with upstanding ears and piercing eyes was a combination of Whitestock and Artesian bloodlines. Because of Wilson’s failing health, the breeder said he purposely trained the dog for “companionship and house behavior.”

Wilson, however, did not go to the grave dogless. Shortly before he died, he was presented with a bull terrier. Named Whitestock Service Man, or Bruce for short, the handsome dog with piercing eyes and upstanding ears came from an admiring breeder. He complimented the President “for his wonderful gameness under suffering and adverse circumstances, and above all for his natural inherent love for his fellow man.” In this note to the President, the breeder added, “I, with my little Scotch wife, could not conceive of a better gift, or a more appropriate one than a dog that showed the same characteristics.”

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