--- title: National Dog Day: Meet a Hero Dog of 1928 description: Extraordinary animals aren't a new phenomenon canonical: https://time.com/3995030/national-dog-day-heroes-history/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-26T15:00:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:08.430Z article:section: History og:title: National Dog Day: Meet a Hero Dog of 1928 og:description: 'Max barked until a policeman came to revive Gilbert Kirkwood' og:url: https://time.com/3995030/national-dog-day-heroes-history/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0f9220007af49e9/69885ef9196cf46f1d037851/1101280227_400.jpg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 400 og:image:height: 225 og:image:alt: Feb. 27, 1928 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: National Dog Day: Meet a Hero Dog of 1928 twitter:description: 'Max barked until a policeman came to revive Gilbert Kirkwood' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0f9220007af49e9/69885ef9196cf46f1d037851/1101280227_400.jpg?branch=production&width=400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # For National Dog Day, Meet a Hero Dog From 1928 > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Aug 26, 2015 3:00 PM UTC  The Feb. 27, 1928, cover of TIME The Feb. 27, 1928, cover of TIMETIME  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Aug 26, 2015 3:00 PM UTC In honor of National Dog Day—celebrated on Aug. 26–allow us to look back at the the first nonhuman to be a TIME cover subject: a basset hound puppy who was a born show dog with champion parents. But the story, which was prompted by the 1928 Westminster Kennel Club dog show, took a much broader look at the state of dogs in America. “It would be idle to suppose that the tiny fraction of the U. S. canine population which last week posed and strutted in Madison Square Garden was in any sense the most important,” TIME noted. “Other dogs did not pause last week, in the performance of their deeds and duties, to admire the antics of these prototypes.” Among the canine feats highlighted by TIME was one particularly heroic pooch: --- > “” --- **_Read more stories of 1920s canine heroism in the TIME Vault:_** [Putting on the Dog](http://time.com/vault/issue/1928-02-27/page/28/) ### Most Famous Dogs in Movies and Television  Lassie in Lassie MGM Studios/Getty Images  Toto from The Wizard Of Oz. MGM Studios/Getty Images  Snoopy in Peanuts. ABC Photo Archives/Getty Images  Rin Tin Tin from The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. The Frank S. Errigo Archive/Getty Images  Petey the dog from Little Rascals. Imagno/Getty Images  Santa's Little Helper from The Simpsons. FOX  Scooby Doo Warner Brothers  Brian from Family Guy. FOX  Beethoven and family from Beethoven's 2nd. Universal Pictures/Getty Images  Otis from The Adventures of Milo and Otis. Columbia Pictures  Shadow and Chance from Homeward Bound: the Incredible Journey. Walt Disney Pictures  Buddy from Air Bud Buena Vista Pictures  Charlie from All Dogs Go To Heaven. United Artists  Lady and Tramp in Disney's Lady and the Tramp Disney  Beasley Le Bordeaux, or Hooch, from the movie Turner & Hooch. Doug Griffin—Toronto Star/Getty Images  Benji from Benji: The Hunted. Dick Loek—Toronto Star/Getty Images  Gidget the Taco Bell dog. Vern Evans —Getty Images  Uggie from The Artist George Pimentel—WireImage/Getty Images _Read next:_ [_21 Reasons This Dog Is the Best Dog in the World_](http://time.com/4005066/national-dog-day/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Download TIME’s mobile app for iOS to have your world explained wherever you go_](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-mobile/id328218429) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3995030/national-dog-day-heroes-history/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3995030/national-dog-day-heroes-history/"},"headline":"For National Dog Day, Meet a Hero Dog From 1928","datePublished":"2015-08-26T15:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:08.430Z","description":"'Max barked until a policeman came to revive Gilbert Kirkwood'","url":"https://time.com/3995030/national-dog-day-heroes-history/","keywords":["animals","Newsfeed","Holidays"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0f9220007af49e9/69885ef9196cf46f1d037851/1101280227_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb0f9220007af49e9/69885ef9196cf46f1d037851/1101280227_400.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Feb. 27, 1928","caption":"Feb. 27, 1928","creditText":"TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3995030/national-dog-day-heroes-history/","name":"For National Dog Day, Meet a Hero Dog From 1928"}}]}] ```