Many breeds were named for the area in which they were developed, and some of those breeds are still known by those name...
Read MoreNew York’s Official State Dog
On December 23, 2016, then New York State governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed legislation that made New York’s official s...
Read MoreFrom English to Bluetick
Once upon a time, the Bluetick Coonhound was called the English Coonhound. In those days (around 1946), some English Coo...
Read MoreA Change for the Iggie
John George Wood, also known as Rev J. G. Wood, was a late 19th century English writer who popularized natural history w...
Read MoreA Komondor’s Connection to the Twilight Zone
Time to give you a little mood video. Scroll down to watch a short clip from the original Rod Serling’s The Twilig...
Read MoreThe Dog Whose Parts Float
Did you know that dogs have no collar bone? A dog’s front end essentially floats on muscular and ligamentous attac...
Read MoreHe Went Before Royalty
Few things are as sad as a funeral, and when a heartbroken dog is left behind as “Caesar” was, it makes the ...
Read MoreMuskrat Love, JRT Style
The Captain & Tennille’s “Muskrat Love” became the duo’s third biggest selling song, but lov...
Read MoreWhere are the Afghan Hounds?!
Our Afghan Hound readers have been asking us: “When do we get some posts about Afghan Hounds?” We’ll d...
Read MoreA Peek at Society’s Thinking?
The Kickstarter platform was good to National Purebred Dog Day, or to be more accurate, the people who helped fund our w...
Read MoreThe Happy Breed
Despite his disastrous Italian wars, Louis XII of France was known as “good king Louis” and the “fathe...
Read MoreA Snippet of Kishu Ken History
Once upon a time in a land far away, a hunter took pity on an injured she-wolf he found in the forest. All the hunter as...
Read MoreThe _______Coated Retriever
Retrievers are among the coolest dogs on the planet. Inclined to retrieve almost anything, their versatility seems to ha...
Read MoreHenri de Falandre’s Hound
Meet the Chien Francais Blanc et Noir, also known as the French White and Black Hound. Occasionally, one of these dogs m...
Read MoreGoing to Ground
Only one word in the resolution designating May 1 as National Purebred Dog Day was challenged by the Colorado Legislativ...
Read MoreThe “Official” Clown Prince
Different breeds have claimed the title of “The Clown Prince of Dogs,” and they’re probably right, but...
Read MoreMoving Along
One of the hardest things to learn for a “newbie” in the dog fancy is to evaluate movement, particularly in ...
Read MoreShetland “Collie” Sheepdog
The patience of Sheltie owners. One can only image how often one is asked by a well meaning but uninformed person abou...
Read MoreThe Swashbuckling Rhodesian Ridgeback
The most modern “swashbuckling” movie that we could think of was Johnnie Depp’s “Pirates of the ...
Read MoreMore Than a Window into the Soul
The Clumber Spaniel’s “work place” is extremely heavy undergrowth thick with bramble, briars and thick...
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