When they meet, they discuss the peculiar trials of keeping a pooch in the city, from pooper-scooper vigilantes to landlords who won't let anything with four legs in the door.
"The English worry more about the welfare of poor little pooch than they do about the safety of Joe Public," says Mr. Eachus, an American who has been living in England since 1977.
Presidential pooch Millie shared in the largesse, including a gingerbread-style Christmas doghouse made from dog biscuits that was valued at $100. It came from public relations executive Robert Gray.
The glitziest, the Krewe of Endymion, boasted party pooch Spuds McKenzie _ accompanied by his corps of non-canine cuties, the Spudettes _ as its grand marshal.
The progress of the presidential pooch has been an item of key concern for the Bush family in recent days.
The suggestion of giving appreciated stocks to the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals helps the Newman character win the business of an eccentric millionaire who arrives at his office with her precious pooch Carlos in her arms.
The president occasionally takes the first pooch along for an evening stroll around the South Lawn after dinner.
He takes his dog to a rather bizarre trainer, Muriel (Davis), who does more than merely mold the pooch.
The exhibit's pooch de resistance is Lew Davis and William H. Paxson's "The Trojan Dog."
LuLu was feeling fine, the psychic said, but forget another pooch.
Ted and Heddy Hess say they've never had second thoughts about having a human pacemaker implanted in their pet pooch, Susie.