Rutons Dogs

| January 10, 2012

Photo from the Carson collection. 1951

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Mel and Friend

| October 10, 2010

                                                                                  Mel Werkmiester a fine young man.

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Anden’s Dogs

| July 27, 2009

Anden had a mixed group of dogs when I saw his act. As you can see in this photo, the act was quite different than other dog acts. He did a lot of head and foot balancing with the dogs, even though it was worrisome to the audience to watch the tricks they did enjoy […]

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Mary’s Dogs

| September 2, 2008

Mom saved many of her dogs from the dog catcher. She trained them and put them into her circus act. Later she became a famous act on TV and in motion pictures. She changed her name to Toni Madison and her act became known as “Toni Madison and her Wonder Dogs”. Photo taken on the 101 wild West & Circus […]

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Mary Henry’s Trained Dogs

| September 2, 2008

This is a picture of my mother performing with her dogs, my father is in the background assisting. Notice the military costume that my father is wearing. In those days it was customary that all animal trainers wore military type costumes. They were always announced as “Captain …………”

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