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Article: A dogged quest: A reporter's zealous pursuit of his pet's ancestry leads him down many trails, ending with a DNA test.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2007
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Byline: John Woestendiek
May 14--There are 75 million dog stories in America. This is one of them.
It's not about a hero dog, or a movie dog, or a dog show-winning dog, or a rescue dog, or a therapy dog -- just a plain old dog of unknown parentage that happens to be mine.
He came from the city animal shelter, where, after being picked up as a stray a year and a half ago, he was weighed in at 50 pounds, judged to be about 6 months old, labeled a "hound mix" and put up for adoption.
At the time, pretty much everything about Ace (that's the name the shelter gave him) was a mystery -- from the breeds that are in him to the home that he ...