Alfred Hitchcock's dogs

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In the 1960s when I was little we had a Sealyham terrier, a breed of dog that is far from common. I am interested in film trivia. As you are perhaps aware, the great film director Alfred Hitchcock often made cameo appearances in his films. Early on in his film 'The Birds' he is seen leaving a pet shop with two Sealyham terriers on leads. One time while I was trawling the Internet looking at film trivia I came upon the fact that these two dogs were Hitchcock's own pet Sealyhams. Their names were Geoffrey and Stanley. My name is Geoffrey and my father's name is Stanley.
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