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In addition, they are frequent heroes of animated films. The famous English company Dulux for many years uses the image of a dog on its logo. In England, there is a legend about the purposeful breeding of a short-tailed large dog. The fact is that in the XVIII century the tax on dogs depended on the length of its tail, the longer it was, the higher the fee. The owners of the Old English Shepherd are many celebrities, among them Sir Paul McCartney.