Sunday 1 July 2007

Inedible Dog


I don't dare keep a real dog (Pussy Kirk eats dogs for breakfast). Here, though, is a favourite dog that even PK can't scare. He lives in the British Museum. Apparently he is "a Molossian dog, ancestor of the modern mastiff breed." He's known as the Jennings Dog and also as The Dog of Alcibiades, although he's 2nd century BC Roman. I was disappointed to learn that the sculpture is twice life size (so Kirk probably would have eaten the real thing).

2 comments:

  1. Dogs that do no harm are useless :-)

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  2. Anonymous8:13 pm

    who are you?, are you messing with my cemputer?

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