The breed standard (AKC) for the Tibetan Spaniel calls for its eyes to be “set fairly well apart but forward looki...
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Giving the Pekingese Credit
Andrew Soutar was a British novelist and journalist whose novels were often serialized in newspapers, many of them even ...
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The Border Terrier: A Family Affair
Many breeds were named for the area in which they were developed, and some of those breeds are still known by those name...
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New 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...
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From English to Bluetick
Once upon a time, the Bluetick Coonhound was called the English Coonhound. In those days (around 1946), some English Coo...
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A 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...
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A 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...
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The 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...
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He 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 ...
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Muskrat Love, JRT Style
The Captain & Tennille’s “Muskrat Love” became the duo’s third biggest selling song, but lov...
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Where are the Afghan Hounds?!
Our Afghan Hound readers have been asking us: “When do we get some posts about Afghan Hounds?” We’ll d...
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A 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...
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The Happy Breed
Despite his disastrous Italian wars, Louis XII of France was known as “good king Louis” and the “fathe...
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A 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...
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The _______Coated Retriever
Retrievers are among the coolest dogs on the planet. Inclined to retrieve almost anything, their versatility seems to ha...
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Henri 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...
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Going to Ground
Only one word in the resolution designating May 1 as National Purebred Dog Day was challenged by the Colorado Legislativ...
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The “Official” Clown Prince
Different breeds have claimed the title of “The Clown Prince of Dogs,” and they’re probably right, but...
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Moving Along
One of the hardest things to learn for a “newbie” in the dog fancy is to evaluate movement, particularly in ...
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Shetland “Collie” Sheepdog
The patience of Sheltie owners. One can only image how often one is asked by a well meaning but uninformed person abou...
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