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Show Island White Oshkosh, White House Dog YOU can t call a dog "OsnkoKh." So what the White House folks will call Island White Oshkosh remains to be seen maybe "Isle", or "Whitey" or "Kosh"; your guess Is as good as anybody's. Anyway, Any-way, Island White Oshkosh Is the name of the white collie accepted by President Coolldge from the Island White Collie Kennels of Oshkosh, Wis. Oshkosh Is large and heavy for a collie that Is flfteer. mouths old. He has a full, heavy, pure white coat, very thick and shoggy about the neck and shoulders; a long, bushy tall; a lithe, powerful body, with well-sprung ribs and deep chest ; a long, aristocratic head and the wise, rather sad eyes of the thoroughbred collie. Like all the other dogs from the Island White collie kennels, Oshkosh was placed on a fnrm In early puppy-hood. puppy-hood. There he learned to take care of the cattle and other live stock, to guard the farmer and his family and to act as companion to the farmer and aa a playmate to his son. This training, train-ing, according to Stephen C. Radford, kennel owner, best develops and maintains the skill. Intelligence and virility for which collie doxs have been fumed In song and story for hundreds I of years. usnKosn comes or a long line or thoroughbreds. Many of his near relatives rel-atives are doing distinguished service to man on some of the most dangerous and difficult, missions possible In the world today. Last year twelve of Oshkosh'a brothers, sisters, cousins and unclea were shipped to Cnpt. Roald Amundsen, Amund-sen, Arctic explorer, to accompany him on his seven-year voyage Into polar regions. These dogs are able to withstand with-stand the coldest weather of the Arctics. Arc-tics. Eight hear-relntlves of the President's Presi-dent's new dog were sent last spVlng to the Royal Canadian mounted police, there to share the adventures and hna-urdous hna-urdous lives of these guards across the border. In Alaska white collies of Oshkosh'a breed herd reindeer and pull sledges; In northern Alberta they chase coyotes and other morauders frca the range, on our western prairies and In the deep valleys of the Itockles they handle han-dle large herds of cattle and sheep; In Mexico they herd goats; In the lonely lone-ly places of the world they act as companions com-panions for solitary llgthhouse keepers, keep-ers, forest rangers and missionaries who travel along the edges of civilization. |