The Brussels Griffon comes in a rough coat and a smooth coat called “Brabancon.” Brabancons, which have exis...
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Gentilhomme Paysagnard
Recognize the breed of the dogs in the video clip below? Being canine villains in a James Bond movie is certainly not ou...
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Do 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...
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Not Just Another Pretty Face #9
How often have we as purebred dog owners, fanciers, and affectionados suffered through the ignorant charge that today...
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German 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...
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Talk 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...
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The “Elite of Working Terriers”
“Spanning.” It helps evaluate whether a working terrier is able to do its job. Can it follow quarry through ...
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Finland’s Dog Fancy*
Back in 2015, we reported that the Finnish Lapphund was Finland’s third most popular breed. That dipped to fourth ...
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A 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’...
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Chuckle 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...
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The 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...
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Saluki 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 “...
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“K9s for Cops” in Chicago
Last year, the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation launched a public art campaign – “‘K9s for Cops’”...
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The “SunTrust” Dog
Watch the video below to see something you don’t see in a commercial every day: It’s not that there’s ...
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Because 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...
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Guess 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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Before They Give Up on the Dog…..
Forty three seconds into the video below, you notice it. Fifty anxious dogs in a Colorado Humane Society shelter quiete...
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Those Giant Schnauzer Eyebrows
Be still our hearts. It’s a Giant Schnauzer in a show groom. Outside of a show ring, it’s unlikely that one ...
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She Loved a Collie and Rode to the Stars
She was a California teenage tennis champion who considering turning professional after being told by Billie Jean King t...
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Lara Croft As You’ve Never Seen Her
The sequel to the PC, Xbox One and PS4 “Tomb Raider” and “Rise of the Tomb Raider” is coming out...
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