Does it seem to you that we’re seeing more and more Malinois becoming police K-9s? In light of an earlier Facebook...
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Splayed Feet
The Irish Water Spaniel’s breed standard indicates that the feet should be “large, round, somewhat spreading...
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The Cadillac of Bird Dogs
The American Kennel Club and Canadian Kennel Club lists the breed as the Pointer, and both the Fédération Cynologique ...
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Jenga, and the Aussie Who Plays It
It’s a little amazing. You have to watch “Secret,” an Australian Shepherd, in action to believe that t...
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Coffin Head
Katana Zero is a 2D action platform video game, and one of the game’s achievements comes after collecting the blue...
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Collies: Scotch, Scottish, Old Time Scotch, and Farm
At the first organized sheepdog trial held in Bala, North Wales in 1873, over 300 spectators watched as Mr. James Thomps...
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Pinky Panky Poo
The subject of our post very likely had a dubious pedigree, but we tie in the subject of purebred dogs by writing that i...
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The Partridge Family (dog)
To the swiftest does not belong the prize, not while gaiting in a show ring, and often not when hunting. Pointing dogs w...
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Not a Lab!
Most of us will sail through life never having laid eyes on the breed seen here, but even if we did, we might think we s...
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On the Tip of Its Tongue
As the legend goes, it was when the world was created and the stars were put into the heavens that a few pieces of the s...
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Royal Colors of the Peke
Less than ten years ago, Paris Hilton ushered in a trend that caught on with other celebrity dog-owners like Britney Spe...
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Cheetah Control – and Zoo Ambassador!
The other day, we talked about Livestock Guardian Dogs, and touched upon the Kangal Dog. Most of us in the United Stat...
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Livestock Guardian Dogs: Different Breeds for Different Needs
Over the years, farmers and ranchers have used many methods to reduce predation from coyotes, bears, wolves, mountain li...
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The Titian Spaniel
Something interesting happened on the way to Renaissance art in the 17th century: Dogs became more common as subjects. I...
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Cujo, and the Not-Typecast Breed
We have to think it was the movie that made Saint Bernard owners cringe. Possibly the only positive thing to come out of...
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Americans, Thank a Frenchman for the Great Pyrenees
The problem with running a purebred dog-centric site is in making the assumption that what is “old news” for...
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Some Things Never Change
It’s usually dog show grist: A dog is disqualified from the ring, and it’s off to the races for gossipers, r...
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The “Glen Sit”
Unique to Glen of Imaal Terriers is a sitting position in which the dogs sit on their hind ends and hold their entire bo...
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The “Brand” of Dog in India
Anyone interested in dog breeds native to India may have come across photographs of dogs that appear to be branded. Th...
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Irish Eyes ARE Smiling
The name, Irish Setter, is said to be derived from the Gaelic term, “Madra rua” which has a literal translat...
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