Ashley Whippet, Canine Frisbee Star, Dies at 13
Ashley Whippet, the world’s best-known canine Frisbee catcher, succumbed to the infirmities of old age in Sierra Madre on Tuesday.
He was 13, or the human equivalent of 91.
With him was Alex Stein, his owner and Frisbee pitcher who, with the 28-pound dog, leaped into the national spotlight in 1974. As the Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds were playing before a national television audience, Ashley and Stein sneaked onto the Dodger Stadium field, where Ashley caught and retrieved the plastic disk tossed hundreds of feet by Stein.
Three times--in 1975, 1976 and 1977--Ashley won the World Frisbee Disk Canine Championships in the Rose Bowl.
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