List of historical dogs

• Balto, lead dog of sled-dog team that delivered medicine from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska to save Nome from a diphtheria epidemic
• Barney, US President George W. Bush's Scottish terrier.
• Belka, dog aboard Sputnik 5.
• Boatswain, favorite pet of Lord Byron
• Buddy, US President Clinton's chocolate Labrador retriever.
• Centaur Pendragon, Rudolph Valentino's Irish Wolfhound
• Checkers, US President Nixon's cocker spaniel, made famous in the Checkers speech
• Diamond, Sir Isaac Newton's favorite dog.
• Jack, US President Roosevelt's terrier.
• Murray of Fala Hill (or Fala), US President Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, given by his cousin, Margaret Suckley.
• Laika, the dog aboard Sputnik 2.
• Manchu, Alice Roosevelt's small black Pekingese which she received as a gift from the last empress of China.
• Millie, US First Lady Barbara Bush's springer spaniel.
• Nigger, a black labrador retriever who gave his name as the codename for the Dam Busters mission in World War II. (He was given the name solely because he was black, but it is usually edited out of modern versions of the film about the mission.)
• Pete, US President Roosevelt's bull terrier, who bit so many people he was exiled from the White House.
• Robot, dog who discovered the cave paintings at Lascaux
• Sailor Boy, US President Roosevelt's Chesapeake retriever.
• Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland during the expedition.
• Skip, US President Roosevelt's mongrel.
• Spot "Spotty" Fletcher, US President George W. Bush's English Springer spaniel , named after Scott Fletcher, a former Texas Rangers baseball player.
• Strelka, dog aboard Sputnik 5.

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