Serious history buffs of the Prohibition era will recognize Eastern State Penitentiary as the place Al “Scarface&#...
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This Coonhound Tracks and Prays
Meet Dixie, a Bluetick Coonhound who has some special talents. She came to our attention when we read about “Mayberry ...
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Brindle: A Pattern, Not a Color
Black and white Boston Terriers may be the most “classic” of the breed’s colors, but a true black and ...
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Early Field Trials
Field trials in the United States, some say, began as a way to identify dogs that were better gun dogs than others in or...
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The Hare-Pie Beagle
Beagle colors are defined by registration associations, and the Beagle’s AKC standard is very clear about acceptab...
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America’s First PBGVs
Skycastle French Hounds was a Basset Hound pack founded in 1948 by John and Elizabeth Streeter. They hunted in Pickeri...
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Not a Hound and Didn’t Hunt Elk
Other than “gorgeous,” the Norwegian Elkhound answers to different names throughout the world, but the afore...
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He Sired the First to Survive
As the story goes, Hatshepsut’s was entering her eighth year as queen. She installed her Chancellor, Senenmet (als...
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Lizzie Borden’s Bostons
Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-on...
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Horák’s Other (Unfortunate) Breed
In dog circles, František Horák is known as the “father” of the Cesky Terrier, a breed he created expressl...
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The AWS and Marker #282
We pass them by all the time without notice, unless, of course, we’re looking for them. We’re talking about ...
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The Breed Shaped by the Fells
Millions of years ago after nature battered parts of England with lava-spewing volcanic activity, an ice age followed, a...
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The Philosopher’s Dog
Do you believe that there is an objective, intellectually understandable spiritual world accessible to human experience,...
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Credit the Poodles
Before the mid 1930s, dog shows didn’t include Obedience events because they didn’t exist. Thanks to a Poodl...
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The Comeback Cor*
Many hearts fell in 2009 when The Kennel Club in the UK placed the Pembroke Welsh Corgi first on its “at-watchR...
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The Grand’s Ears
It is no easy thing to catch a Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen relaxing. These happy, goofy and independent dogs are eithe...
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She Was the First To Do This
Eleanor Roosevelt, Pat Nixon, Rosalynn Carter, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, Barbara Bus...
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Hunting the Clean Boot
Learning terms that are unique to breeds that are not our own is one of the joys of the diversity of purebred dogs. One ...
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The Round-Headed Bull and Terrier
This is one of those posts that invites comments from breed historians because for now, our theory for the Boston Terrie...
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