The Havanese, a descendant of the Bichon Frise, was sometimes known as the Bichon Havanais, the Bichon Havanese, the...
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Bergamasco: The Missing Link? (winkie winkie)
What’s better than kids loving on a rare breed? Learning to tell the difference between the rare breed with a floc...
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A Rivalry of Colors
In Quechua, the language of the Incas, the Peruvian Inca Orchid Dog’s name translates to “dog without vestments,...
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“Bob the Kelpie” Song
“Bob The Kelpie Dog” (alternately known as “The Bob Song”) is a children’s song written an...
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Blue Black Terriers
There were some who thought that “talking movies,” would never last. Our parents thought the Beatles were ...
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The Spoiled Cavaliers
Evidently, the richest, most spoiled and outrageously treated dogs in America are three Cavalier King Charles Spaniels ...
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Feast Your Eyes on THESE Eyes
These remarkable eyes belong to an Australian Shepherd whose photo comes to us by courtesy of Lisa Kress-Pope. She i...
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Can You Identify the White Dogs in This Ad?
When Range Rover wanted to promote the Range Rover Velar in a TV commercial, they wanted to use dogs that would comman...
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Pioneer Dog of the Southern Mountains
Mountain Curs have been described as the pioneer dogs of the Southern Mountains, but “mountain” in the Moun...
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Strains of the Treeing Walker
Sung to the tune of “Dem Bones:” The Foxhound is connected to the Virginia Hound, the Virginia Hound is conn...
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Once Separated by Coat
The people who make a study of “dog stuff” (affectionately known in our house as “geeks,” but mo...
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The Missionary and the Ridgeback
The Rhodesian Ridgeback was once known as “Van Rooyen’s Lion Dogs,” after Cornelius van Rooyen, a Dutch big g...
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Those Baby Blues
Our thanks to Shelly Hollen for her terrific chart on eye color in the Australian Shepherd. The Australian She...
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The Wind Drinker
His name appears in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, and words poet and court jester, Abu Nuwas, wrote in the 9t...
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Know Your Dog Inside and Out
“Happy accidents” are what happen to us when in the course of researching one thing, we find something prett...
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The Picture That Caused a Stink (or: Don’t Shave That Dog)
The picture you see here is not the picture that caused a stink. The picture that did cause a stink is “safe”...
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A Fault in One Breed, a Hallmark in Another
A tail that is thick and covered with hair at the “root” (where it sets into the dog) for two or three inche...
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An Impromptu “Not Just a Pretty Face”
As a rule, we don’t mention the show names of dogs whose pictures we share, let alone the high points of their car...
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The Windhund, Bracke and Rüde
With the popularization of genealogy, and DNA kits like, “23 and Me,” the study of heraldry is catching a ...
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Neck Length and Shoulders
If many of us who show our dogs are honest about it, our first (fill in the breed) was also our first exposure to the do...
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