Pets - April 11

Friday, April 11, 2025

Today is Barbershop Quartet Day, Eight Track Tape Day, "Louie Louie" Day, Cheese Fondue Day, Pet Day, Poutine Day, Submarine Day, and Parkinson's Disease Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: PETS

ON THIS DATE

• 1945 - American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
• 1951 - President Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of the command of American forces in Korea and Japan.
• 1965 - 265 people die in the Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak in six midwestern states.
• 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting housing discrimination.
• 1970 - Apollo 13 is launched.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1749 - French miniaturist and portrait painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
• 1913 - Fashion Designer Oleg Cassini
• 1914 - Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein
• 1932 - Actor Joel Grey
• 1987 - Singer Joss Stone

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Son of Preacherman - Joss Stone - LISTEN
• Gonna Buy Me a Dog - The Monkees - LISTEN
  
• Martha My Dear - The Beatles -  LISTEN
• The Puppy Song - Harry Nilsson -  LISTEN
• Louie Louie - The Kingsmen - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Thomas Gray -  Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat

THEME:  PETS

• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - What Are Pets? (1:33) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Pet Shop Field Trip (1:33) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Kidvision - A Dog with a Dog Trainer  (10:01) - VIEW and DO
• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia -  Young Explorers - Get Up and Go Play: Playing with Pets (2:36) - VIEW
• Grades PreK-K - PBS LearningMedia - Kidvision - Animal Shelter Field Trip (7:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades: K-4 - PBS LearningMedia - Cat Adaptations: Agility (3:58) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-5 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Canine Intelligence (6:24) - VIEW
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Pet Handedness (5:26) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Dragonfly TV - Pet Therapy (6:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Pigs as Pets (6:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades: 3-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nature - Social and Cultural Perspectives of Dogs (8:53) - VIEW and DO
• Grades: 3-12 - PBS Learning Media - Nature - Cats (8:28) - VIEW and DO
• Grades: 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - Cat Tales (53:40) - VIEW
• Grades: 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Nova - DogTales (54:11) - VIEW
• Grades: 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How We Domesticated Cats - Twice (7:47) - VIEW
• Grades: 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Eons - How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends (9:29) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Origins of Everything - Why Do People Have Pets? (7:50) - VIEW and DO

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339