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[[File:Owney.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Owney, photographed in 1895]]
'''Owney''' (ca. 1888 - July 11, 1897), was a stray mixed breed [[terrier]] adopted as the first official postal [[mascot]] by Railway Mail Service and [[Albany, New York]], post office in 1888.  

==Story==
[[File:OwneyDog.jpg|thumb|left|Following his death in 1897, Owney's body was carefully preserved.  Owney is currently on display at the Smithsonian [[National Postal Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]

(contracted; show full)ied the story of Owney's death.   They reported that Owney had been ill, was about 17 years old and had become aggressive in his old age.  After attacking a postal clerk and a US Marshal in Toledo, Ohio, Owney was shot and killed on the orders of the local Postmaster.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Dog Owney Dead at Last|accessdate=27 July 2011|newspaper=Tacoma Daily News|date=12 June 1897}}</ref>

On July 27, 2011, the [[United States Postal Service]] issued a [[Forever stamp]] honoring Owney.
  <ref>http://www.stamps.org/cac/owney/index.htm</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Owney, the Mail Pouch Pooch|author=Mona Kerby|coauthors=Lynne Barasch|year=2008|location=New York|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-35685-9}}
*{{cite book|title=Owney:The Traveling Dog|publisher=Olympic Marketing Corp|author=Lynn Hall|year=1977|isbn=978-0-8116-4860-8}}
*{{cite book|title=A Lucky Dog: Owney, U.S. Rail Mascot|author=Dirk Wales|publisher=Great Plains|year=2003|isbn=978-0-9632459-0-8}}
*{{cite book|title=A Small Dog's Big Life: Around the World With Owney|author=Irene Kelly|publisher=Holiday House|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8234-1863-3}}
*{{cite book|author=Carl L. Biemiller|year=2000|origyear=1966|title=Any Friend of Owney's|publisher=Putnam Pub Group|isbn=978-0-399-60032-6}}

==External links==
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/tags/owney/ Owney images from Smithsonian Institution]
*[http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/owney/index.html Owney at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyioQlIIDeE Video for ''Owney, the Mail Pouch Pooch'']
*[http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/owney/Postmasters_Advocate_Owney_article-2011-04.pdf  Latest research on Owney, published in April 2011 Postmasters Advocate]

[[Category:1888 animal births]]
[[Category:1897 animal deaths]]
[[Category:Individual dogs]]