but he was alive in a time when lot of effort was put into breeding what's called a boston terrier today. beginning, the boston terriers were bigger, they didn't necessarily all look and white the way we tend to think of them looking now. 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

boston terrier today. they did not necessarily all of black and white the way we tend to think of them now, so he is 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. >> do you know precisely why stubby's name is stubby? >> this is an excellent question. you are helping to remind me of all the things i should have said earlier. good look at stubby, what do you think it might be? he had a very short tail. at some point, his tail had been longer, and breeders will sometimes shortened tails to make doll looks look a certain way -- to make dogs look a certain way. news reporters did not always get the facts right back then. just like now, sometimes things get mixed up. i would come across newspaper articles from the aero when stubby was alive, and they would .all him fluffy, hubby sometimes articles would refer to him as a she. >> when he got hurt, did he make it? .> he was pretty shaken up i don't know if he was unconscious, but no one wrote that down anywhere. if he was, that fact has been lost. when he was taken away in the ambu