A Lagotto Romagnolo without its tight curls is still a Lagotto Romagnolo, or course, but would you recognize the dog be...
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Grooming Trends. What’s Yours?
Today’s teenager may roar with laughter at what many of us thought was pretty cool “back in the day,” ...
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A Gift for a Newborn in Japan
Japan enjoys many traditions, and many of them are centered around a pregnancy. The first “dog day” of the f...
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The Oreo Cookie Center Too Pretty To Eat
When Jackie Chan commissions you to create a portrait, well, that’s pretty darn cool, especially when 64,000 chops...
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A Snippet of Greater Swiss Mountain Dog History
The oldest of the Swiss breeds is the Greater Swiss Mountain Dog, but its earliest origins is still the subject of discu...
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Under Their Watch
We don’t think we’re taphophiles – people who are “into” cemeteries (folks also known as ...
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Skin Pigmentation in a White LDG. What’s Up With That?
As much as we’d love to know everything about everything, we are, like our readers, forever learning about our bre...
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From the Show Ring to the Field
These happy, energetic, and eager-to-please dogs just might be dogdom's best kept secret. They can hunt, compete in agil...
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Does Your Breed Reflect Your Personality?
To our knowledge, there has been no update to the research done a while back on whether our breed choice reflects our pe...
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The First, and for a time, the Only
The Australian Terrier was the first Australian-bred dog ever to be recognized and shown in Australia, and it follows th...
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The Heart Shaped Ear
Unless one is a two year old or teenage human, in which case the ears are closed for the season, most human ear canals a...
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The Mioritic Has Friends
A friend of National Purebred Dog Day has done something very cool with the breed of the dogs seen at the left: She got ...
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Beauty, Brains, and Birdsense – and Eyes
It’s the short posts you tend to recall, so when admiring a Gordon Setter, remember that the ears should be set...
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Words for a Picture
Some posts we write as an excuse to share a photograph that enchants us. In this case, it’s the group shot of Ita...
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Sheep Coat
It happens to the best of breeders: A puppy is born with an attribute that doesn’t quite meet the standard. When a...
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Calling all Pointer-Owning Hunters
We’ve read this before, but dismissed is as “breed legend.” When one story keeps coming up during rese...
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Trussardi Still Loves Greyhounds
Italian menswear label, Trussardi, still loves Greyhounds. Trussardi Greyhounds have been a mascot for the brand since i...
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The Dog with the Human Brain, But Which Breed?
“My breed is as dumb as a brick,” said no one ever. Well, almost never. We suspect that the majority of us t...
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Don’t Touch!
One of the Fila Brasileiro’s most unique characteristics is a dislike of strangers, so much so that at dog shows ...
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Steampunk Beagle
Twenty-two-year old Igor Verniy is an engineer in the field of metal, and a specialist in the evolution of stars and ast...
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