Faithful Family Pets: Researching Dogs Named Fido

By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 4, 2015

I was reading an article in Reader’s Digest by Brandon Specktor (“Unlikely Legacies of U.S. Presidents.” Reader’s Digest November 2015, pages 176-182) that credits Abraham Lincoln’s dog Fido as the poster dog that made that name “synonymous with the family pooch” across the country. I wondered how common Fido had been as a dog’s... (Read More)