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Aspin Hill Memorial Park[edit]

Today I made an edit to this article. I couldn't find a graceful way to add my sources, so I'm posting this FYI.

I've done research on the dog purported to be Petey from the Our Gang movies at Aspin Hill Memorial Park in Silver Spring, Maryland. The grave says his name is General Grant of R.K.O. I contacted the American Kennel Club, and they sent me the report on this dog from their 1930 Stud Book. He is a pure-bred, all white English Bulldog. I have the complete set of Our Gang movies for the period of time that General Grant of R.K.O. was alive, and there are no white bulldogs playing Petey, only pit bulls.

I found an article in Dog Fancier, v. 42(3) March 1933, p. 15-16, which reports that General Grant of R.K.O. was sold and delivered to Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York City. Across the top of the gravestone, there is the name "FORBUSH." I googled "Forbush" and "bulldog" and came up with a book about raising bulldogs by Gabrielle Forbush and Arthur Forbush. I also found a book called "My Boy Franklin," as told by Mrs. James Roosevelt to Isabel Leighton and Gabrielle Forbush. This was published about the same time that General Grant of RKO was reported by Dog Fancier magazine to have been shipped to FDR

I also found classified ads from 1937 in the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) newspaper, advertising General Grant of R.K.O.'s services as a stud. Nowhere did I see any mention of him having been in the movies. I don't know where the rumor started that General Grant of R.K.O. was Petey, but my research shows that it's not true.

TackyJulieToo (talk) 15:05, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]