The announcement usually went like this: “By permission of his Grace the Duke of Wellington…” And thus, Mr...
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The Evolution of Cur – and Curs Today
With the recent passing of Jim Lehrer, a longtime PBS News anchor and moderator of a dozen presidential debates, we are ...
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The Country of Draft Dogs Own Dog
Given that in the year 1900, Belgium had more than 150,000 draft dogs (this, according to Guillaume de Lavigne), it̵...
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Sardinia’s Only Dog Breed?
The Sardinian Sheepdog, also known as the Fonnese dog or Fonni’s Dog, is found only on the island of Sardinia, the ...
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The Greatest Player Of All Time Owns a Dogue
Beating out Cristiano Ronaldo, Pele and Diego Maradona to be named the greatest footballer of all time (that’s soc...
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The “Conquering Lion’s” Chihuahuas
We don’t know if modern history textbooks touch upon Haile Selassie, but in our view, he is a noteworthy figure wh...
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The Scottish Deerhounds Who Saved His Head
Few who read Dan Brown’s book, The Da Vinci Code, could put it down. The religious mystery was fiction, of course, b...
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What the Aidi Isn’t
People who live in the Atlas Mountain region of Morocco described the role of their native dog this way: “There are no...
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The Dog Loved by the Moon Goddess, Selene
We take no joy in posting about yet another breed in trouble. Meet the Greek Shepherd, a dog that for centuries has been...
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Korea’s Living History
For 500 years, the Chosŏn Dynasty ruled Korea, a time when scholarship flourished, the Korean phonetic alphabet was inv...
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A Music Legend and His Poodle
The scene: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Walking down a concourse to reach a gate, it was hard for u...
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Have Poodle, Will Create
Mention “extreme grooming” and “Poodle” in the same sentence, and you might conjure up images of...
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The Blockhead (said with affection)
At nearly 400 words, the largest section in the Boerboel’s AKC standard is devoted to the description of the head ...
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The Dog that Evolved from the Asiatic Black Bear**
It is a sad statistic that according to one source, over 50% of the known dog breeds native to India are completely exti...
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The Dürrbächler
The mountain breeds of Switzerland are referred to as Sennenhunde (Sunnenhund with the “e” is plural), the...
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A Dog You Won’t Soon Forget
Prepare to be awed within two and a half minutes of the video below: There were times during the video that it struck us...
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I’ll Have a (Vocal) Fry with that Pom
Hearing is believing, so pay attention to these actresses’ voice intonations at the end of their sentences: The cr...
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The Scarteen House Kerry Beagles
The Kerry Beagle has a misleading breed name. Neither a Beagle nor a relation of the Kerry Blue Terrier, the breed may...
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The Kunming Wolfdog: A Breed? (Cloning Doesn’t Count)
Occasionally on these pages, we’ll share what we know about a “breed” that we think is unknown to most...
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The Lexicography of Barbet
Lexically speaking, history doesn’t seem to have known what to make of the Barbet. In 1587, King Henry IV’s ...
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