Scarcely a century old, and after thirty years on the show circuit, the last English
White Terriers died out in the early 20th century.
When Arthur --- the pet Sealyham (
terrier) of Walter and Theodora Heinkel ---
dies, Dennis sells the Heinkels all that his company has to offer: cremation, a top - of - the - line urn, religious rites, a
white dove (to be «liberated over the crematorium»), and an annual card of remembrance (to read, «Your little Arthur is thinking of you in heaven today and wagging his tail.»)
We'll never know the real story, but the little
white Terrier - mix had been dropped at the shelter just a few hours before I found her — the man said because his mother (who owned her) had recently
died.