The uninitiated might mistake a Japanese Terrier for a Rat Terrier, and vice versa, but there are differences. The Rat...
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“Does This Water Make Me look Like a Viking?”
Iceland’s only native dog was brought to Iceland with the first Viking settler, around 874 AD, and while Icelandic...
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New York’s State Dog: Do You Know What It Is?
Back in 2016, New York State governor, Andrew Cuomo, signed legislation that made New York’s official state dog the ...
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Blueticks: Once Upon a Time….
Once upon a time, the Bluetick Coonhound was called the English Coonhound, but in those days (around 1946), some English...
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Whatever Ever Happened to Snuppy?
It’s generally known that the first cloned canine was “Snuppy,” a dog cloned from a cell taken from th...
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What These Particular Labrador Retrievers Can Do!
What the Labrador Retrievers in the video below have in common is impressive: Recognizing the scent of TPPO (triphenylph...
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Can You Pronounce This Breed’s Name Correctly?
Our provocative post title amounts to clicker bait. Sheepish grin, sorry. But the Ariégeois is a terrific breed that w...
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The Anatolian Shepherd: Dutch Marking
In an Anatolian Shepherd, all color patterns and markings are equally acceptable, and one of those markings is “Du...
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Winston Churchill: Poodle Man
Though Winston Churchill was often associated with Bulldogs, he was actually a Poodle man. His first Poodle, “Ru...
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A “Howling” Good Time
Researchers know from audio recordings of wolves that each wolf will change its tone when other wolves join the “c...
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“Wine, opera, fashion, and the Volpino Italiano”
“The flag, mom, and apple pie” is a symbolic idiom used in the United States to refer to things that most Am...
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Snow or Winter Nose
In another post, we briefly discussed the “butterfly nose,” but here we want to touch upon the “snow...
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Parts Judging?
In the world of dog shows, “parts judging” should be discouraged because the whole dog needs to be evaluated...
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Butterfly Nose
When a dog has patches of bright pink randomly situated on its dark nose, the dog is said to have a “butterflyR...
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Stubbornness: Breed Trait or Personality Quirk?
When is a trait linked to a dog’s personality and not its breed? Conversely, when is a trait typical of an entir...
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Aussie Eyes
An Australian Shepherd can come with any eye color, including blue eyes on non-merles. None are rare, preferred, worth m...
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“No Job is Too Big, No Pup is Too Small”
His name is Ryder, and he leads a pack of search and rescue dogs. Each dog has a skill set based on a real life job, su...
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Giacomo Merculiano’s Borzoi
If you’re ever in Buenos Aires, Argentina, look for the bronze sculpture of three Borzoi located in the Plaza Mon...
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Toto Heresy?
Move over, Cairn Terrier and Dachshund owners. At the risk of starting a brawl, there’s another “player̶...
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And Betty When You Call Me, You can call me Billy*
The next best thing to having a breed named “Bob,” is one named Billy, and that’s precisely the name o...
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