They are one of life’s best things.

Here are a few dog stories from history.

Queen Victoria owned eighty-eight Border Collies during her long life. Her favorite was Sharp, who came into the royal household in 1866, after the death of her husband, Prince Albert.

At the end of her life, it was a Pomeranian named Turi who comforted her. It is said Victoria died with her eldest grandchild, the future German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Turi, at her bedside.

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