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Dog Gone Postal
By Katie Croft
| Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 07:27 AM
On a recent trip to North Carolina my family and I visited the National Train Museum where I found the charming story of Owney the Postal Pooch. Owney wandered into the Albany, New York post office in 1888 and went to sleep on a pile of old mail bags. From then on he felt at home wherever the mail bags went. Owney’s journey was recorded by mail clerks across the country who attached railroad baggage tags to his collar. He accumulated 1, 017 tags, tokens and medals and travelled over 143,000 miles. He even went around the world by registered mail. He retired at the Albany post office but soon boarded a train bound for Toledo, Ohio where he died in June 1897.
Don’t forget Paws in the Park this Saturday 12-4!
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By quita
October 17, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this
Missing Family Member
Adult spayed brown/black weiner dog missing. Max is a chubby weiner dog. Last seen at Valero Gas Station at Loop 340 and Hwy 6 Thursday afternoon oct. 17th.
My brother in law was traveling home from Houston and stopped at the Valero Station. My BIL is recovering from having his leg fused in a stationary position. He did not notice that MAX jumped out. They looked a long time yesterday and didn’t find him. My sister is going back to Waco tomorrow to put up posters and do all she can to find him.
They are all heartbroken. Please if you have any information or care to help please contact my sister at 281-728-4894 or email her at kookykrejci@yahoo.com.
Thank you so much. This family has been through so much the last several years and now their family is missing.
Thank you so much for your information. God Bless