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1993 New Yorker cartoon, via Wikipedia.

According to the familiar adage, on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.  But as shown by the photo above, the general concept predates the Internet by decades.  The photo, from the July 1939 issue of Boys’ Life, shows Maud, an English Bulldog, at the controls of W2KBA, the station owned by Vincent S. Barker, who had written a feature about Amateur Radio for the magazine’s April issue.

Maud appears to prefer operating CW, and is busy putting a weak DX station in the log.