Following the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, CNN’s John Berman and Alisyn Camerota spent a few moments on the s...
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Westminster: Good Genes Always Out
The incredible scenting ability of dogs has been used to detect bombs starting in the early 1940’s, their legacy p...
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Poor Us and Our Cart Dog
Any excuse to share the next best thing to puppy breath: Wallonia is the French-speaking region of southern Belgi...
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The Most Endangered Hungarian Dog Breed**
Over 1,000 years ago, Hungarian tribes that invaded the Carpathian Basin brought with them a dog cynologists refer to as...
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Keeping Up With the Kardashian Dogs
Ask why the Kardashians are famous, and you might be told that they’re famous for being famous. In reality (ha, a ...
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The Viking Irish Wolfhound
In the movie, his name was “Rekkae,” and if you scroll down to the video clip, you’ll spot the dog wit...
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Royals and Those Darn Laws
We suppose it was the ancient version of today’s “sin tax,” but Sumptuary Laws from previous times see...
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The Saluki: Desert Breed, ROO, or COO?
A serious interest in the Saluki will inevitably expose one to the words, “Desert bred,” “ROO,” ...
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Attached with a Gold Chain
She was the Bible’s bad girl, one of histories earliest Femme Fatales. She couldn’t be compared with the B...
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Museau Normal
Smooth faced Pyrenean Shepherds have always existed in the Pyrenees Mountains, but since the 1920s, the breed has been a...
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Bouvier des Roulers
Last year, we posted about the “other” Bouvier, the Bouvier des Ardennes, and wrote with regret that of the ...
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Frog, Froggie, Frog Faced and Frog Legged
Some say we live in an age of suffocating political correctness. Others say our sensibilities have simply matured. Eithe...
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A Cat Named Dog
A few weeks ago, the voice of someone who sang about a cat named dog was forever stilled Perhaps you remember her song...
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Deerhounds in Harry Potter
Some people think that Sirius Black was the focal point of the movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but as ...
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Not Like Any Other Sighthound
It’s an Afghan Hound thing. The topline of these hounds is not like the topline of other breeds, and not even like...
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The White Collie
As a dog owner, President Lyndon Johnson was best known for his Beagles, “Him” and “Her,” but he...
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Bhrocaire!
A caveat: We’re not Irish and we don’t speak Gaelic, so on this topic, we defer to those who do, and welcome...
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“Vaste, Huge, Stubborne, Ougly and Eager”
“For a good Mastive dogge, a case of bottles replenished with the best lickour, and pray proceur mee two good bull...
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“There’s No Place like Home”
“There’s no place like home,” but the remains of the most famous Cairn Terrier actor didn’t have...
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Bierboxer?
Boxer owners report that their dogs really do stand on their hind legs and bat with their front paws while playing. ...
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