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Gov. John Lynch signed a bill making the Chinook, a cross between a husky and a farm dog, and the only breed to have originated in New Hampshire, the official State Dog.
The Chinook is known as a smart, fast sled dog. There are almost 800 registered Chinooks today, and 450 of them live in New England.
A group of seventh-graders from the Ross Lurgio Middle School in Bedford lobbied for the bill. Lynch joined them for the bill signing.
A Brief History of the Chinook dog breed
The story of the Chinook rises and falls like the quiet hills and intervales of New Hampshire's White Mountains. The Chinook dog breed has brushed close with extinction on numerous occasions.
Arthur Walden, a dog driver bred mixed-breed dogs. One such breeding of a farm dog to a northern husky resulted in a litter of tawny pups.
On January 17, 1917, Chinook was born. He was a large boned, tawny, flop-eared dog weighing 100 pounds at maturity, with an impressive head and kind expression. Chinook was known as a wonderful sled dog.. Chinook's offspring inherited his general coloring, size, characteristics and disposition. They would later be called "Chinooks."
Walden and his dog sled team with Chinook in lead are credited with bringing the sport of sled dog racing to New England. . In 1927, Walden was appointed to head the Dog Department for Admiral Richard Byrd's first Antarctic Expedition . Chinook was lost in Antarctica Chinook's death meant the loss of one of the greatest lead dogs in history.
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