Meet the breed that’s often misidentified as a Puggle (which isn’t a breed at all) or a Pug; it’s the...
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“The Walking Sledgehammer”
While some dogs that work with hogs or cattle prod, cajole, or nibble at ankles, the Catahoula Leopard Dog has a rather ...
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The Boogeyman Breed
It is a contradiction that remains unreconciled. The Utchak Sheepdog is said by some to be as real as the boogeyman unde...
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Paint it Black
You know this song. Don’t click on any of the following links just yet, but if you’re a certain age, you wer...
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One of Two Caped Crusaders
While a dog “in” a cape evokes images of a canine super hero, a dog whose breed standard calls for a cape is...
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The Dogs of Hungary’s Matthias Fountain
We have an update to this post which you’ll find at the end. As the story goes, Matthias, a young Hungarian of hig...
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Rapporthund: A Competitive Tribute to WWI’s Messenger Dogs
Carrying messages was one of the important uses of dogs during World War I; telegraph and telephone lines were often ...
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Purebred Dogs in “Cracker Jack”
In 1894, fans of the molasses-flavored, caramel-coated popcorn and peanuts known as “Cracker Jack” started f...
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Happy Birthday, “Lady!”
Today is Ambassador Lady’s 11th birthday. Mazel Tov! Lady, a Border Collie, has been the ambassador of Rabbit Hash...
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A Tail By a Hair
All tails are not alike, of course, and sometimes it seems as if a simple strand of hair (figuratively speaking) can mak...
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Happy Year of the Pig (and Hog Dogs)
Yesterday was Chinese New Year, and according to the Chinese zodiac, 2019 is the year of the pig. Speaking for ourselves...
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Ghost Head (Blowin’ in the Wind)
The conversation in the days following a Super Bowl are usually about the game, but also about the commercials. Anheuse...
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Gather ‘Round, Students of Breeds: Murdjo, Merdjan and Karabash
For anyone lucky enough to meet a Šarplaninac in person (as we were when we were in a local pub, of all places) chances...
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You Say Coolie, They Say Koolie (let’snotcall-thewholethingoff)*
In his book, The German Shepherd Dog in Word and Picture, Max von Stephanitz, the “father of the German Shepherd Dog,...
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Age Before Beauty: Not Always
The phrase, “Age before beauty,” is an old phrase found in print from at least as early as 1869 (it appeared...
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Irish Setter Owners, Cover Your Necks!
Achilles, Helen of Troy, and Aphrodite were all said to have had red hair. All these millenia later, their names are st...
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The Last Laugh Goes to the “Siberian Rats”
In the last decade, the breed of dog used by most dog mushers in Alaska isn’t really a breed, it’s an amalgamat...
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Not Just a Pretty Face #12
Our series called, “Not Just Another Pretty Face” has been introducing you to dogs who aren’t just beautiful e...
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Carried Off the Mountain By Mule
Just as herding dogs have a “style” of work (eye/no eye, drove/gatherer, and so on), livestock guardian dogs...
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A Snippet of Chart Polski History
New as the breed may be to some of our readers, the Chart Polski is a very old breed, and its presence in Poland dates ...
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