The Quorn Pack
…Hugo Meynell (the very same) took over the mastership until 1800. Finding the pack too slow inspired him to evolve a hound that was fast, compact, well nosed, full of…
…Hugo Meynell (the very same) took over the mastership until 1800. Finding the pack too slow inspired him to evolve a hound that was fast, compact, well nosed, full of…
For over a thousand years, the Portuguese Pointer has always had the same square head, marked stop and compact look, but this is not a new look to students of…
…hound with no foxhound blood running through its veins because it was created by combining three original strains of dogs, all pure French hounds that are now extinct: The Ceris,…
…were typically destroyed after the owner died to prevent forgeries after deal. When a Pope dies, for example, the Camerlengo’s first duty even now is to ceremonially destroy the Pope’s…
What do these events have in common? •Construction began on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; •John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil; •The Democratic Party used a donkey as its symbol…
…suit). As an aside, the United Kennel Club, the FCI, the Australian National Kennel Council, and the New Zealand Kennel Club are some of kennel associations that register both the…
…is better: “Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour…
…Scott & Pratt St. location. Incredibly, the statues were thrown into a scrap heap in 1899 when new offices were built. Some people are superstitious, and when the company fell…
…and folding found photographs, I try to bring these dogs back to life, but instead of releasing them, I restrain them again in a new shape by changing their form,…
…to make the sessions more fun and comfortable for the dogs. Fishman studied commercial photography at Syracuse University, and has worked with some of the best fashion photographers in the…
…have also been used in blood trailing, to locate rare endangered tortoise egg sites, shed hunting, and have been seen in dock diving competitions. As a companion dog, the Pudelpointer…
The idea of monks having a breeding program seems counterintuitive (not sure why), but there is a long history of just such a thing. Certainly, the Monks of New Skete…
Yesterday was Chinese New Year, and according to the Chinese zodiac, 2019 is the year of the pig. Speaking for ourselves, we think pigs are likable. They’re highly intelligent and…
…most reliable sources of comfort. She had owned a Poodle whom she wrapped in her best mink coat for his cremation following his death, as well as a Beagle, a…
…for the completion of the 2014 season, the legendary Peyton Manning was leading Denver into the big game after a season in which he broke numerous individual and league records….
Every November 4th since 1926, people have gathered around a gravesite in Machpelah Cemetery in New York to perform a ritual in which a wand is broken. The people are…
…war correspondent for the London Times and the New York Herald from 1898 (the Spanish-American war) to World War I when he was a war reporter with the French and…
In 2011, a new show on the Discovery Channel aired that dramatized the life of people who produce moonshine, an illegally made high-proof distilled spirit typically made with corn mash,…