The tools used to groom a Poodle predate the breed by a lot. Earliest combs were probably the desiccated back bones o...
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A Girl in Every Port?
“A Girl in Every Port” is cringe-worthy with today’s sensibilities, but it was a “winkie winkie&...
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The “Happy Breed”
This utterly appealing face belongs to the Briquet Griffon Vendeen, not to be mistaken for a Petite Basset Griffon Vende...
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A Snippet of Finnish Lapphund History
At the end of WWII, a series of major outbreaks of distemper broke out and killed the dogs at such a rapid rate that ma...
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A Whippet with Turn Signals
Willys-Overland Motors was an American car company better known for its design and production of military Jeeps during...
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Dogs of the Nomads
It’s been estimated that by the time a Livestock Guardian dog is five years old, it only has to save five lambs a ...
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What is More Essential in This Breed than Tails…..
One of the most genuine of Sweden’s dog breeds, the Swedish Vallhund (sometimes known as the “wolf corgiR...
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“The Ugly Dachshund’s” Great Danes
“It’s a happy honeymoon until a Great Dane disguised as a Dachshund crashes the party!” That was the &...
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Respect the Wheaten!
It’s one of dogdom’s ironies that the Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier didn’t get its official name until 1...
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What Happened to Amelia?
We don’t know the breed of Amelia Earhart’s childhood dog, “James Ferocious,” other than that he wa...
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“And Betty, When You Call Me, You Can Call Me, uh, Bläss?”
It’s telling. When we challenged our Facebook fans to name the breed from which a detailed photo came (a close up ...
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Heading and Tailing
Flipping a coin dates back to the ancient Romans who knew it as “navia aut caput” (“ship or headR...
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Are You Inked?
Did you know that the word, “tattoo,” is derived from the Polynesian language, and specifically from the word, ̶...
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The Three R’s
What breed do you supposed was being spoken with the following quote: “He does not throw away his priceless devotion a...
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Words of Wisdom Learned from “Chaser”
The video below is about Chaser, the Border Collie who knows a thousand words, but in sharing Chaser’s story, John...
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What Hundreds of Golden Retrievers in One Place Looks Like
In August 2013, 222 Golden Retrievers met in front of Guisachan House in the Scottish Highlands to celebrate the origins...
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The Little Big Dog
Denmark has five native dog breeds, and one of them may be the only breed whose official name reflects two nations becau...
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“Dog” Inside Out
You know you’re a serious student of dogs if you wish you owned a reticulated canine skeleton. Most of us would b...
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