The Portuguese Water Dog
February 19, 2009
Portuguese Water Dogs, PWD, or Porties, once faced extinction with only 25 known dogs. Today, this breed is as popular as ever. Recent notoriety has come with the choice of a Portuguese Water Dog as a possible resident in Obama’s Whitehouse. This loveable breed has found fame at the sideof Senator Ted Kennedy and in his children’s book, My Senator and Me featuring Senator Kennedy’s Portuguese Water Dog, Splash. It is believed the Portuguese Water Dog existed in pre-Christian times, there were severe penalties for anyone who killed a water dog during this period . The first written evidence of the Portuguese Water Dog according to the Portuguese Water Dog Club of America, is the description left by a monk writing in 1297 about a dying Irish sailor brought out of the sea by a Portuguese Water Dog.
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