hank the cow dog is a cowdog.
hank the cow dog is a cowdog.
what kind of dog is hank the cow dog?
cowdog
drover: drover is a younger dog who lives on the ranch with hank as his best friend. hank refers to him as his assistant, or as a "little mutt" when hank is angry with him. unlike hank, drover has no delusions of grandeur and enjoys spending most his time staying out of trouble and sleeping (16 hours a day according to hank), often engaging in useless tasks he invents for himself. in "the case of the car-barkaholic dog", for example, hank observes that while he is helping the cowboys with the cattle herding, drover spends the afternoon chewing on an old horn, buries it, and then promptly forgets where it is buried. he is also unashamedly timid, and frequently avoids "the call of duty" by pretending to have a bad leg. drover has a great deal of curiosity and often asks hank obscure questions such as "why does the moon rise in the evening and set in the morning?" hank rarely knows the answer to these questions, but this doesn't stop him from providing ones. drover often appears to have more common sense than hank, which allows him to avoid getting into many of the same catastrophes hank creates for himself. drover appears in every story in the series, with the exception of a1: the homeless pooch.
hank the cowdog
the swedish vallhund, also known as the "västgötaspets" and swedish cow dog, is a breed of dog native to sweden. the breed's name, "vallhund", when translated into english, means herding dog, as the swedish vallhund was originally bred as a drover and herder of cows over 1,000 years ago. in 1942, the dog came close to extinction, but careful breeding and publicity by swedish national bjorn von rosen and k. g. zettersten managed to revive the breed in popularity and save it from its likely end. in 1943, the swedish kennel club recognized the swedish vallhund as a breed, and officially categorized the swedish vallhund as "the västgötaspets" for västergötland, the province in which their revival took place. since then, the breed has been recognized by, and bred in, over ten countries and has gained some popularity.
swedish vallhund