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No, Rhode Island has no Official State Dog, or Animal, or Mammal, or Insect or reptile.
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Maine does not have a state dog, but it does have a state fish (landlocked salmon), a state animal (moose), a state cat (Maine coon cat), and a state insect (honeybee).
Michigan's State animal is the white-tailed deer. Eleven other states chose this same animal.
No, it was the other way around: the dog was named after the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The Gray Squirrel and the state's dog is the Plott Hound
No it has no designated Official State Animal but it does have a:CatDogBirdFishCrustaceanDinosaurHorseInsect and even aReptile.
State Cat: Calico Cat (Felis catus.)State Horse: Thoroughbred Horse (Equus caballus.)State Dog: Chesapeake Bay Retriever (Canis familiaris.)But there is no Official State Animal.
White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus.)It also has a state dog, the great dane,State insect the firefly,State fish the brook trout andState bird the ruffed grouse.The hummingbird is the pannsylvania animal.
In 1966, the American fox hound (Canis familiaris) became the state dog.
The desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) is Nevada's state animal.