so he's pretty close to a boston terrier. but he might have a little bit of bulldog mixed in and maybe some other flavors just for fun. thanks. >> do you know precisely why stubby's name was stubby? >> this is an excellent question. you're helping to remind me of all of the things i should have earlier. so this is do you want to help me guess? if you take a good look at stubby, what do you think it might be. the tail. a short tail. at some point, his tail had been breeders will sometimes shorten tails to make dogs look a certain way. stubby's tale was very short. he had a stubby tail. he became stubby. but news reporters didn't always the facts right back then. just like now, things get mixed up. come across the newspaper articles from the era and they y was alive call him stuffy. let's see. hubby. ometimes the articles would refer to him as a she, even a boy.it's but stubby because of the short tail. yes? he got hurt, did he make it? >> did he make it after he got hurt. up.e was pretty shaken i don't know if unconscious. any

headlines .rom time to time coolidge had all kinds of pets at the white house and was a big fan of boston terriers, and stubby was somewhat related to the boston breed, but stubby really eclipsed all of these dogs, too, and was so well-known and so well regarded that he actually met oath of these presidents as well as woodrow. theet woodrow wilson while soldiers were still in europe and wilson had come over to negotiate the peace and reviewed a unit of the yankee division and was introduced to stubby and offensively shook hands with the .resident later on, stubby visited the white house. harding was president. he was invited to visit the president when calvin coolidge was president. he was constantly in the news. he was front-page news in "the new york times," "the washington post." when he traveled, people recognized him. we think about how the population knows the president's dog or socks the cat from the clinton era or whatever -- it's the same sort of idea with stubby. content toy was not just retire from the military, so he picked up a new career when he came home, and he became . football ma