We credit Bo Bengston and Kevin Shupenia for writing about the term, ‘horn” of the English Foxhound’s foot, ...
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One Breed – So Many Names
In addition to having higher levels of red blood cells than other breeds, it’s said that the Greyhound has bee...
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The Face that Glowed Like a God
The discovery wasn’t a “one off.” In 1935, Dr. George Reisner lead the Harvard-Boston Expedition in e...
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A Broken Ear (and Almost a Movie)
It’s not all that jarring to learn that the term for an injured or deformed dog ear is a “broken ear.”...
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Why a Dog Gargoyle?
One of the more fairytale-like castles in Europe can be found in South Moravia, the Czech Republic. Lednice Castle was...
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The LGD With Sighthound Ancestry
Turkey has provided us with some of the oldest dog breeds in the world, and one of them is a dog whose name in Turkish, ...
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Sight or Scenthound?
The Basenji, as we all know, is part of the AKC Hound group, but is it a scenthound or a sighthound? The American Sight...
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American Magazine
The American Magazine was a periodical published between 1906 and 1956, and focused on human interest stories, social...
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Test Your Knowledge
There are six retriever breeds recognized by the AKC, and they are (in no particular order): Labrador Retriever Flat-Coa...
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“Perfect Demon”
We don’t always know how a breed acquired its nickname, particularly when its history is lost to time. In some cas...
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The First Pet Therapists
We struggle with the work of Dr. Samuel A. Corson who spent years using dogs to conduct research on the effects of stre...
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A War Over Deerhounds
The Picts were a tribe of people who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and E...
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Ragged Couples?
The English Foxhound has a curious passage in its breed standard when describing the back and loin: “Must both be ...
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A Feminist Pirate in the Family
She was one of the original bad girls, a woman so vilified by her English adversaries that they described her as “...
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The Vehicular Greyhound
The 1961 AC Greyhound seen here didn’t set the world on fire when it was first made, and today’s car enthusi...
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The First Postage Stamp With a Dog – What breed?
Philately. It’s stamp collecting, and postage stamps featuring dogs have been among the most appealing of small an...
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The Irish “Wolf Dog’s” first Reliable Mention
Many of our dog breeds have been touched by the influence of the clergy, whether it’s through development (Reveren...
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Size Doesn’t Always Matter!
Toy breeds are too often dismissed by people who’ve never lived with one. Owners know better. These dogs are far f...
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Not Just Another Pretty Face #7
We’ve been introducing you to some dogs who are “Not Just Another Pretty Face,” our series on dogs who aren&...
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