Today’s dog creative dog-naming owner has nothing on George Washington who named his Dalmatians Sweet Lips, Tipple...
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No Frivolous Parts!
They couldn’t have been designed better for their environment than if they’d been drawn up by modeling softw...
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What a Nenet Mother teaches a Daughter-Bride
The Nenetsi people of Northern Siberia are a nomadic people who are also thought to be the largest Samoyedic group still...
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A Cat-Like Dog Breed
When asked what would surprise people most about their breed, owners of Japanese Chins were almost unanimous when they o...
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Greyhounds Do This, and There’s a Name for It!
Greyhounds can have a really goofy way of lying around on their backs with their long legs pointing out at weird angles....
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The Snowflake Greyhound
No, a Snowflake Greyhound isn’t an overly sensitive hound who needs trigger warnings, but a Snowflake Greyhound is...
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Dogs Match Cars? VW Thought So
Back in 2013, Volkswagen got the idea that if owners can resemble their dogs, maybe dogs can be similarly paired with ...
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The Erdelyi Kopo: Hungarian or Transylvanian?
By now, you all know how to pronounce the plural of the Hungarian dog breeds, right? Right? Puli—->Pulik; Ko...
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The Dogs of Mayhem
We think Allstate’s “Mayhem” is probably one of the best characters to appear in television commercial...
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The Mariah Carey of Dogs
On the way to writing about the Portuguese Water Dog’s prowess in water, we got sidetracked. It happens a lot here...
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“Terrier Fire”
Fire. It’s not a word one would associate with a purebred dog (unless you consider the lively Staffordshire Bull T...
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Guatemala’s Only Native Breed
Earlier, we shared a Volkswagon commercial that surprisingly, and to our delight, included a Dogo Argentino, not a bree...
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The Unexpected Breed in VW’s “Same Difference” Commercial
Veteran NPDD readers know how delighted we get when an uncommon breed shows up in a television commercial. Still, we did...
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They Detect Really Old Dead People
It probably matters to the owners of the dogs involved, but we don’t care who was first. We simply think it’...
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She Also Photographed Dogs
Nina Leen was a Russian-born American photographer who adamantly refused to reveal or even discuss her age, but it hardl...
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Can You Name the Top Ten Breeds in 1984?
News flash. People who are now twenty-one years old were born in 1998. Yeah, we know. We have socks purchased before the...
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Place Name British Terriers
To our knowledge, there are thirteen terriers named after places in Great Britain. Can you name them? The answers are ...
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The Sicilian Shepherd: Another Breed at Risk
Along with the Sicilian Hound (what we know as the Cirneco), the Sicilian Shepherd is regarded by some cynologists to be...
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Drover v Driver
Shepherds of old, and the sheep industry of new, have relied on sheepdogs to move stock, but different herding breeds ha...
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Your Dog Could Be a Star!
We are always telling you (yeah, we are!) to start an Instagram account for your dog, and then keeping it fresh with you...
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