No bedtime story is complete without one’s special blanket or stuffed toy, and for many of us, that toy is a teddy...
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The “Castle Setters”
Gordon Setters are one of the few breeds in the world named for an actual person. Mentions of the “black and tan s...
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The Couteulx, the Lane, and the Griffon
To our knowledge, there are roughly ten to twelve Basset Hound packs in the UK, but there was a time when there were sev...
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The Dog Loving Stooge
Some say the style of humor that the Three Stooges employed belongs to a different era. We’re more sophisticated n...
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The Versatile Toller
If the end of 2019 felt like a marathon to you, you weren’t alone. The year 2019 had the fewest possible shopping ...
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How to Prevail When Writing a Breed Standard
Do you have cushions on which your dog can sleep? She did too. Have you ever named a dog after one of your favorite pe...
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The Siberian’s Baby Blues
You wouldn’t be the first person to be mesmerized by the piercing blue eyes of a Siberian Husky. While the breed s...
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Hansi’s Schlager Dogs
In Germany, Schlager music is known for its carefree-happy-go-lucky pieces of pop music in which instrumental music acco...
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Dog-grel Verses by a Poor Blind (what’s an Esquimaux?)
Thomas Hood, an English journalist, humorist, and poet who died 175 years ago, was a complex chap. Particularly known fo...
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The Delage Greyhound
In the early years, automobiles had radiator caps outside of the hood (or bonnet, if you’re a Brit). The exposed r...
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Seeing Heaven and Earth At the Same Time
The United Kennel Club breed standard for the Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog (what the AKC simply refers to as the Cata...
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Lou’s First Christmas
No word on how Lou, the Bulldog enjoyed his first Christmas, but we’re betting that his owner, Reese Witherspoon,...
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The Esteemed Blue Chow Chow
There are five colors in the Chow Chow, and one of them, blue, was thought by ancient Chinese and Mongolians to be the c...
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It Started with “Charles”
Derrick Campana is one of some ten to twenty people in the world who can make custom prosthetics for animals of all shap...
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The Bulldog Cafe
It was a different time, a simpler time when it didn’t take much to shock and awe us. Those of us of a certain age...
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Landpinschern to the Rescue
It’s not the kind of bragging rights that an owner or breeder of a particular breed wants to have, but with only 2...
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One of Poland’s Five National Breeds
Poland has five national dog breeds, and one of them, the Polish Hunting Dog, is the subject of this post. Poland is a c...
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“What Kind of Dog Was That?”
We delight in commercials that feature one of the world’s purebred dogs, and never more than when it’s an un...
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‘Tis the Season (Or Ray and Mariah’s’ Dogs)
As we write, we are a day away from Christmas, and chances are good that you’ve been hearing Christmas music for s...
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