For the benefit of our “city folk,” we share a video that (truth be told) is still impressive for those of u...
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Always Waiting
Between movies and books, the poignant story of the Akita named “Hachi” is well known. For anyone new to dog...
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The Only Breed With This Word in the Standard
We’d guess that most people “in” dogs have a rough idea of what “trousers” refer to in the...
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Airedales on the Beat
These days, we tend not to think of the marvelous Airedale Terrier as a police dog, but the breed’s history most c...
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The Kiss of Allah
The Bedouin culture’s relationship with horses, camels and falcons have been crucial to its survival in the desert...
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Walk like a Fila
Scroll down for a little mood music for this post, one you’ll love if you’re profoundly deaf or three years ...
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The Bullmastiff’s Name
As its name suggests, the Bullmastiff breed was born from a combination of the Mastiff and the Bulldog. These crosses be...
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The “Cantab” Terrier. Why?
Until 1964, Norwich Terriers and Norfolk Terriers were considered to be one breed, and the two share a common history in...
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Release the Foot Hounds!
With regards to hunting in the English countryside, it’s been said that some people hunt to ride, and others ride ...
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Downton Abbey’s Tibetan Terrier Link
A Labrador Retriever named “Isis” was as much a part of the fabulous series, Downton Abbey, as was her ficti...
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A Car and an Akita named “Subaru”
How many of us who are driving a Subaru know the origin of the name? “Subaru” is the Japanese term given to ...
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Steampunk Dogs
The human imagination is a wondrous thing, and one illustration of that is the steampunk genre of science fiction. In st...
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The Doggie Diner Dachshund Heads
In the good ol’ days, some eateries, and dare we write it, “dives, diners, and drive ins,” were more i...
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A “Piece of Good Architecture”
We have long regarded our breeds as “museum pieces with a pulse,” so when we read Dr. William Lewis JudyR...
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Meet the “Fire Hound”
In its homeland, the Austrian Black and Tan Hound is commonly known as the Brandlbracke which loosely translates to, ...
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The Best Boston Terrier Head in the Galaxy
The stud dog ads we came across recently in an issue of Dogdom from 1924 stopped just short of making the outrageous cla...
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The Ghost of a Labrador Retriever
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic war film that recreated the true story of Operation Chastise, an ingenious operat...
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Did a Chow Chow Inspire the Teddy Bear?
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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