It’s always a good time to hear the song in the video below. You may already know this tune from a video that went...
Read MoreA Poodle/ Pointer Recipe for Success
The Pudelpointer may sound like the latest incarnation of a designer breed, but it is, in fact, not only a purebred dog ...
Read MoreFrom Something This Little…..
Some may think that the Great Dane, the breed of the puppy in this photograph, is the tallest dog breed in the world, bu...
Read MoreCredit Queen Henrietta Maria
The Brussels Griffon comes in a rough coat and a smooth coat called “Brabancon.” Brabancons, which have exis...
Read MoreGentilhomme Paysagnard
Recognize the breed of the dogs in the video clip below? Being canine villains in a James Bond movie is certainly not ou...
Read MoreDo You Know How to Make Your Dog Vomit?
In as much as this subject line sounds like a set up for a clever and snappy retort (trust us, we’ve thought of al...
Read MoreNot Just Another Pretty Face #9
How often have we as purebred dog owners, fanciers, and affectionados suffered through the ignorant charge that today...
Read MoreGerman Shepherd Dog or Alsatian?
In 1926, there were 8,000 registered Alsatians in the United Kingdom, and in the United States that same year, a whoppin...
Read MoreTalk Dirty to Me: It’s Called “Piloerection”
What some people will do to get read…. In spite of a suggestive subject line, there’s nothing risque about p...
Read MoreThe “Elite of Working Terriers”
“Spanning.” It helps evaluate whether a working terrier is able to do its job. Can it follow quarry through ...
Read MoreFinland’s Dog Fancy*
Back in 2015, we reported that the Finnish Lapphund was Finland’s third most popular breed. That dipped to fourth ...
Read MoreA New York Kind of Bulldog
While many breeds can claim ancestry dating back to antiquity, Bulldogs are still an old breed even if they weren’...
Read MoreChuckle at the Original Lap Dog’s Taxonomic Hierarchy
For those of you with “average “dogs (as if any purebred dog is average), it may interest you to know that y...
Read MoreThe Head on a Shih Tzu Goes Round and Round
Generally speaking, the first thing we notice about a dog is its head because that’s where his or her face is, and...
Read MoreSaluki Semantics
Shamir. We got curious when we came across the word in an old book on dogs. We were pretty sure we got the wrong “...
Read More“K9s for Cops” in Chicago
Last year, the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation launched a public art campaign – “‘K9s for Cops’”...
Read MoreThe “SunTrust” Dog
Watch the video below to see something you don’t see in a commercial every day: It’s not that there’s ...
Read MoreBecause He Lived Between Northumberland and Scotland
The Reedwater Terrier. We think it’s one of dogdom’s best kept secrets, even though a random check of dog sh...
Read MoreGuess What Someone Paid For This?
In another post, we talked about the role of dogs on cigarette cards, and mentioned as an aside that in 2008, $2,800,0...
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