Back in the day, all Belgian dogs that worked with cattle were called bouviers (herders), and each area of the country h...
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Celebs Still Have to Walk the Dog in the Rain
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper made a young generation of movie goers aware of the film, “A Star is Born,” but...
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Behold: Well Trained Border Collies Hard Wired For the Work
You may have seen this one before, but really, can anyone ever get enough of magnificent Border Collies doing what they ...
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Did You Play With a Marx Toy?
If you’re of a certain age, do you remember playing with these? Even if you don’t, the chances are pretty ...
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The Blue Doberman
The fabulous Doberman Pinscher exists in five different colors: Black, red, blue, fawn (Isabella) and white, but the bre...
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The Goal Tending Bulldogs
In our humble opinion, hockey is one of the greatest sports ever. It is arguably the most dangerous sport in North Ame...
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Ah Bounce! ah gentle Beast! To a Great Dane
As odd as any of may think it is to name every dog we’ve ever had by the same name, there examples of people who&#...
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The Kangals and the Stumpy Tail Cattle Dog
There are few things that please us more than sharing an uncommon breed with you, unless it’s sharing an ownerR...
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Greyhound “Racing Colors”
The other day, we shared a post having to do with Greyhound racing, and how Florida, the last big state with numerous tr...
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Dog Fonts II
A couple of years ago, we shared a post that used purebred dogs to hype fonts; well, school has started in most parts of...
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The Hound in Pajamas
It’s not the feet that catches the average person’s eye when spotting a beautiful Afghan Hound, though the b...
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The Breed that “Tired out Ten Horses”
We don’t know if it’s true, but the Great Book of Dogs wrote that an American Foxhound is “capable of ...
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Icart Borzoi
Artistic attention to one’s breed is welcomed, unless, of course, the artist “gets it wrong,” but even...
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The Obedient Boxer
Whatever else you think you know about obedience work (the dogs are robots, the dogs are bored, the dogs are yada yada y...
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The Great Dane, “Cecil”
A stuffed Great Dane is probably not what one expects to encounter at a museum honoring a famous artist, but that is exa...
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The Poor Man’s Exquisite Dog
She’s got large hairy feet, wide hips, and well developed thighs. Though her coat is oily, it is a riot of curls. ...
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The Apple That Falls from the Tree
Breeding matters. In 1967, a dog named “Risto” did something pretty special. He established an all-time reco...
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The Incredible Siberian Husky
The famous 1925 serum run to Nome in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alask...
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Name This Breed!
The late Alan Stuyvesant said it best: “A Brittany should remind one of no other breed. He should look like a Brit...
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The Keel: It’s Not Decorative!
In the AKC’s hound group, “keel” is a word that can found be in three breeds: The Azawakh, the Bloodho...
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