Owney, the Mail-Pouch Pooch

By Mona Kerby

Subjects: Terriers, Mascots, Dogs, fiction, trains, Voyages and travels, fiction, Postal service, fiction, national postal museum, Voyages and travels, Dogs, Fiction, Children's fiction, Postal service, Juvenile fiction, traveling mail dogs, Owney (Dog), owney

Description: Owney was a real dog that was first found in 1888. For almost ten years, he rode the mail trains all over the country. He even took a trip around the world as the guest of the U.S. Postal workers. Newspapers recorded his travels. Owney was the most famous dog of his day.