Students of all things dog are well aware that there are often ancestral relationships between different breeds. The Pol...
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The Legal Beagle
Have you ever wondered how "Dick" became a nickname for Richard? And how did "Sally"come out of Sarah, or "Chuck" out ...
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The “Brown Bear” Head
Too much of a "stop" denies a Great Pyrenees the elegant majesty for which it is known, let alone the unique "far away" ...
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Not a Sheltie!
It wasn't that the dog she got couldn't work. The breed had herded sheep in the Scottish Highlands and Northern England ...
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Horak’s Ideal Hunting Terrier
On these pages, we like to point out how form follows function in our breeds, and the Cesky Terrier is a fine example of...
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Once Upon a Time…
Greatly worried about the dogs getting lost, the King immediately called for a search party to bring the two back. The Q...
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The “Other” Otterhoun
A dog that could hunt an animal of value while eliminating that same animal as competition for a food source was a handy...
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The Leatherman Tool of Terriers
This terrier often performed his task in snow covered rugged fell country, and it could take from dawn to dusk. It calle...
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He Got Top Billing Over the “It” Girl
Though he got top billing in one of her movies, in the post, we talk about America's first superstar........
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What a Poodle and a Kardashian Have in Common
We can almost see it happening at brew pubs where pets are allowed; instead of, "Here, hold my beer so I can pet that do...
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A Dobie First?
Prior to 1946, Dobies were usually spotted in bit parts of movies, one that were often put out by Dogs for Defense, the ...
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From Keith Moon to an HPR Breed
it amuses us to make tortured connections between unrelated things, and we think maybe we outdid ourselves with this one...
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Center of Gravity
We leave it to the Internet to sort out as to why some women can't do either of these popular challenges, or why some me...
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An NFL Quarterback’s “Lap Dogs”
He "gets" the breed. He once told People Magazine that his Danes just want to lay on your lap all the time. He added tha...
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Daisy’s Ears
In a whelping box and in a show ring, the whole dog should be evaluated, not just its "parts," but a sound dog is made u...
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Cue the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Monster
Kaiju films featured giant creatures like Godzilla, but over three decades later, pop culture had not dispensed with gia...
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RIP, Raquel
It is safe to say that Welch's beauty thrust the baton of universal sex symbol left by the late Marilyn Monroe into Raqu...
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Sheep Are Not Colorblind
Going through your own breed's standard and asking, "why" is an interesting exercise that will lead to better understand...
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The Lackland Shuffle
Did you know that traditionally, every military working dog is a Non Commissioned Officer, and always one rank higher th...
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Venus of the HMS Vansittart
We talk a lot about mascots on these pages because they mattered to the people whose spirits were buoyed by them......
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