Today is Lincoln's birthday which is as good a time as any to tell a Fido story.
Abraham Lincoln's dog was named Fido. He was some sort of yellow Lab-type dog, and he was adopted by Lincoln in 1855.
When Lincoln was elected President, and sent to Washington, he left Fido behind in the care of family friend John E. Roll.
And how did Fido die? He was murdered.
A year after Lincoln was assassinated, Fido was back in Illinois when he jumped up and put his muddy paws on a drunken man by the name of Charles E. Planck, age 24. In a rage, the intoxicated Planck whipped out a knife and stabbed the dog to death.
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