famous dogs in history

everyone's fixation on "laika" (the russian space dog, i'm sure you've heard of her.) irritates me somewhat. she's an important piece of history, especially the history of space travel, but there are far more notable historical dogs then one of the most tragic ones. most of the time i would rather not think about the tragic ones.

for one, there's togo & balto - the two lead dogs who pulled the dogsled during the serum run to nome, alaska. balto is the one who's more known, because his team led the final stretch. togo was the lead dog who traveled the greatest distance. …more