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Dog Destroys Elvis' Teddy Bear at Museum

LONDON (Aug. 2) - A guard dog has ripped apart a collection of rare teddy 
bears, including one once owned by Elvis Presley , during a rampage at a 
children's museum.

"He just went berserk," said Daniel Medley, general manager of the Wookey 
Hole Caves near Wells, England, where hundreds of bears were chewed up Tuesday 
night by the 6-year-old Doberman pinscher named Barney.

Barney ripped the head off a brown stuffed bear once owned by the young 
Presley during the attack, leaving fluffy stuffing and bits of bears' limbs and 
heads on the museum floor. The bear, named Mabel, was made in 1909 by the German 
manufacturer Steiff.

The collection, valued at more than $900,000, included a red bear made by 
Farnell in 1910 and a Bobby Bruin made by Merrythought in 1936.

The bear with Elvis connections was owned by English aristocrat Benjamin 
Slade, who bought it at an Elvis memorabilia auction in Memphis, Tenn., and had 
loaned it to the museum.

"I've spoken to the bear's owner and he is not very pleased at all," Medley 
said.

A security guard at the museum, Greg West, said he spent several minutes 
chasing Barney before wrestling the dog to the ground.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press.

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