Dogs of the Titanic

[kingalls]

Interesting story on Yahoo today:

http://news.yahoo.com/dogs-titanic-unto ... 00569.html

One particularly sad story involves a Great Dane owned by 50-year-old Ann Elizabeth Isham. Miss Isham visited her dog at the ship's kennel daily and when she was evacuating, asked to take him also. When she was told the dog was too large, she refused to leave without him and got out of the lifeboat. Several days later, the body of a woman clutching a large dog was spotted by crew of the recovery ship, Mackay-Bennet, and dinghies were dispatched. Eyewitness accounts by crew and ship's log confirm the sighting and recovery, and the body recovered is assumed to be Miss Isham.

a very different frame of mind than the family that would abandon their pet in a foreclosed home

[Auddymay]

Just yesterday, I read in a Parade Magazine that only 3 dogs lived, and 2 were Pomeranians. That really is a great example of pet love and loyalty.

[kitten1426]

There were two Airedales on board that are very famous even in the movie you see them..I forget the name of the owner but he was a big wig on the ship i think he went down with the ship and his dogs too....The reason i know this i have an Airedale...2 chows and a collie...Im on an Airedale forum and they were just talking about it there too....