Public work
The 1958 feature The Littlest Hobo gave Eisenmann and London a formal screen credit. A later project, My Dog, Buddy, credited Eisenmann as a patrol officer. Live appearances and television work brought several dogs before audiences, not London alone.
London gets a byline
In November 1955, the Kearney Daily Hub published The Doggone Truth under Chuck Eisenmann’s byline. A 1956 profile explained that the column was presented in London’s name, but Chuck wrote the articles. It was another way London became a public personality alongside Chuck’s baseball and dog work.
1975: Chuck and Hobo at Crossroads Mall
A surviving photograph in the Oklahoma Journal Photography Collection shows Chuck Eisenmann with a dog identified by the archive as Hobo during an appearance at Crossroads Mall, Oklahoma City, on 31 October 1975.
Teams, not one unbroken dog story
Contemporary reporting names dogs including Thorn, Toro, Little London and London Jr. as part of the early working group. Later teams used some of the same names again. A familiar name or a similar-looking dog is not enough to establish identity across eras.
Books and public ideas
Eisenmann’s books set out his distinctive ideas about dogs, education and performance. They tell us a great deal about what he believed and remembered, while leaving some details of the dogs’ lives and abilities open.