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A New Dog Museum for New York

There is a saying in American English: “every dog has its day.” It means that everyone sees success at some point in their lives.

At one American museum, though, every dog has its day – every day.

That museum -- the American Kennel¹ Club Museum of the Dog -- is returning to New York City next month, after operating for 30 years near St. Louis, Missouri.

The museum will open on February 8.

Visitors to the museum will find pictures of royal and presidential dogs. They also will find fossils and other evidence of canine² history – dating back to 30 million years ago. People can even try to find out which kind of dog they look like most and “train” a virtual puppy.

Although there will not be real dogs– except for special events -- the museum hopes to give visitors “an understanding of the history of dogs, how they came to be in such different varieties,” said Alan Fausel. He is the museum’s director.

Inside the museum is a library with around 15,000 books from the American Kennel Club collection. Readers will find pictures and information about different kinds of dogs – from bulldogs to terriers.

The museum even has a dog house specially³ designed for a Chihuahua, as well as movie advertisements of dog stars such as Lassie and Beethoven.

The museum’s collection also includes a painting of Caesar, a fox terrier beloved by Britain’s King Edward VII. America’s White House is represented with former President George W. Bush’s Scottish terrier, Barney, and former President George H.W. Bush’s English springer spaniel, Millie.

Next to a picture of Millie in front of the White House is a letter written by then-first lady Barbara Bush. She wrote, “Dogs have enriched our civilization, and woven themselves into our hearts and families through the ages, and I am delighted to see them acknowledged.”

The museum first opened in the kennel club’s former headquarters in New York in 1982. It moved to St. Louis in 1987 in hopes of appealing to more visitors. But Fausel said the museum only received 10,000 visitors last year.

The kennel club hopes the new museum, which is close to New York’s busy Grand Central Terminal, will see close to 100,000 visitors this year.

I'm Ashley Thompson.

Words in This Story

royal - adj. of or relating to a king or queen

puppy - n. young dog

variety - n. a number of different things

weave - v. to create something such as a story

delighted - adj. very happy

1 kennel   

n.狗舍，狗窝

参考例句：

• Sporting dogs should be kept out of doors in a kennel.猎狗应该养在户外的狗窝中。
• Rescued dogs are housed in a standard kennel block.获救的狗被装在一个标准的犬舍里。

2 canine   

adj.犬的，犬科的

参考例句：

• The fox is a canine animal.狐狸是犬科动物。
• Herbivorous animals have very small canine teeth,or none.食草动物的犬牙很小或者没有。

3 specially   

adv.特定地；特殊地；明确地

参考例句：

• They are specially packaged so that they stack easily.它们经过特别包装以便于堆放。
• The machine was designed specially for demolishing old buildings.这种机器是专为拆毁旧楼房而设计的。