In the photo below, meet “Fritz.” He appears at the right at a moment he was sitting in the tundra of the Se...
Read MoreGoodbye, Doris Day. You Leave Us With Mixed Feelings
What does one do when the death of an icon brings to the surface mixed feelings? Doris Day passed away from pneumonia to...
Read MoreIreland’s Terriers in Order
Ireland native terriers are much beloved in the Irish counties which spawned them, and each has its own “claim to ...
Read MoreThe American Hairless Terrier – Not Always Hairless!
Hairlessness is recessive in the American Hairless Terrier. A hairless to hairless breeding results in all hairless pups...
Read MoreNight and Day
To anyone who isn’t a musicologist, or hasn’t seen any Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger movies, Cole Porter is ...
Read MoreInvest Like a Dog
If breeds don’t matter, why do so many companies use purebred dogs in their ads? Would the “beauty salonR...
Read MoreMatts: Expected in one Breed, Dreaded in the Other
Unless one is a professional groomer, or owns and grooms different breeds, it’s hard to relate to the challenges t...
Read MoreMay 1 is National Purebred Dog Day!
National Purebred Dog Day® celebrates the heritage, diversity and predictability of the purebred dog. Each breed is a l...
Read MoreJust Don’t Say “Keesh-hound”
As languages go, Dutch just might be one of the most difficult “tongues” to pronounce (giving proper respect...
Read MoreIndonesia’s Only Official Breed
Originating from the mountains of Kintamani, Bali in Indonesia is the Kintamani Dog, the first Indonesian dog breed to g...
Read MoreThey Were Toy Poodle Babies!
Our Pulik are poor sources when it comes to discerning the differences between the Poodles based on size, but history te...
Read MoreThe Pile of Rocks Specialist
Perhaps you’ve seen stacks of rocks by the side of a road – a small stone placed atop a bigger one which is ...
Read MoreChests: Shallow/Deep
If you don’t show your dog, you may think it doesn’t really matter if you know whether your dog has a deep b...
Read MoreSilent but Deadly
Terriers have a reputation for being barkers, but this is a rather broad characterization of an entire group of dogs, an...
Read MoreCuman, Not Magyar
Hungary is the land of the Magyars, a Finno-Ugric people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in ...
Read MoreThe “Secret Pet Cemetery”
A pet cemetery, in our view, is nothing like a cemetery for humans. A gravestone for a human suggests a story, to be sur...
Read MorePortugal’s Robust First Mate
Perspective is everything. In our view, one should look at a period of time not from today’s vantage point, but fr...
Read MoreShih Tzu Legends
The smallest of the Tibetan holy dogs has wonderful legends associated with it, most having to do with Buddhist mytholog...
Read MoreTerrier or Toy?
When Yorkshire Terriers who’d been imported into Australia were bred with native Australian Terriers, the result w...
Read MoreThe Chinese Crested Clydesdale
You don’t find the word, “Clydesdale” anywhere in the Chinese Crested Hairless’ breed standard f...
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