Boykin Spaniel owners really love their breed, something we saw in a big way when when we featured their breed as a Pur...
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The First Was Sable Colored
We always defer to breed experts (especially when it comes to color genetics), but to our knowledge, the very first regi...
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An Ancient Breed You May Not Know
United Kennel Club members may already know this because their club accepted the breed twenty years ago, but when the Am...
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Not a Hound and Not a Spaniel
Drentsche Patrijshond, or Drent Partridge Dog, is a very old gun dog breed originally from the North-Eastern provinces o...
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The Pug’s Revenge
It was scandalous. Many men had “known” Rose (winkie winkie) before N.B. met her and determined that she wou...
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A Unique Word For the Wire Haired Fox Terrier’s Coat
To our knowledge, the Wire Haired Fox Terrier’s breed standard is the only one in the world which mentions the wor...
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The Proto Dog: They Are Among Us!
Figures vary as to when the first dogs descended from wolves, but most scientists believe it occurred somewhere between ...
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You Say Badger, Others Say Jasper
In time, we will get to the subject of dogs in this post, but we start with George and Ira Gershwin. The music-writing b...
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A Pet Friendly Company
Over forty years ago, “sex sold,” which is why leggy beauties and manly hunks were always part of advertisin...
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Lions and Otters and Butterflies, Oh My
There are some breed standards that use other animals to describe their breed, and the Chinese Shar-Pei is certainly one...
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“Roo” Dogs
While NPDD dedicates itself to the celebration of purebred dogs through education, we think it’s in the best inter...
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We All Loved Dug!
“Squirrel!” It’s shorthand among dog people and refers to a dog suddenly distracted by something the rest of us do...
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What’s in a Name? Collie: Dog, Fish, or Dark
No less of an authority than the Agricultural Dictionary said that “collie” was an obsolete name for sheep t...
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The Deaf Dog
Deaf Dog Awareness week isn’t until September, but this is advanced notice that we’ll be covering these dogs...
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Breed Panache!
Author, John Gribb, contended that the Springer Spaniel is the best all-around choice for hunting upland birds and game ...
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The “Amertoy”
The Toy Fox Terrier is a breed that straddles two inheritances. A terrier background gives the TFT a “superdogR...
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The Breed Owned by a Knight
Its nickname is “The Daredevil,” and though we may all have that one of those in the family, only one breed ...
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Angel Wings and a Fish Hook Tail
In an earlier post, we told you about the fascinating traits of the Carolina Dog, an animal definitively classified by t...
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River Dog. Got One?
We had always figured that a dog that can sit quietly in a boat while his person fishes, and be able swim ably across a ...
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The “Yaller Dog”
In 2016, biologist, Dr. I. Lehr Brisbin, gave a talk in which he said, “We know more about pandas in China, pola...
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