Among the oldest of herding breeds is the Rottweiler (yes, you read that correctly), a breed with an ancestry that most ...
Read MoreMeet a Dog Argentino from the AKC National Championship 2017 (video)
National Purebred Dog Day teamed up with Laura Reeves of PureDogTalk to learn about the Dogo Argentino from an owner....
Read MoreThe Walnut Picker: Not a Good Thing
Dog people can be so vivid in their descriptions. Case in point: When a dog’s breed standard calls for a medium br...
Read MoreHow You Spell This Nickname Matters!
We started our trip to the 2017 AKC National Championship with a good deed: A Dachshund owner sitting next to us at the...
Read More70% of These Dogs are Labs
According to Guide Dogs for the Blind, 70 percent of their dogs are Labrador Retrievers because they have found them ...
Read MoreThe Tasty Rat and the Dog That Hunted It
A full grown reed rat tips the scales at 20 pounds, and it’s never less than 20″ long. A third of this is a ...
Read MoreAn LGD You Might Not Know
It’s not a breed of which many people are aware, let alone have seen, but the Tatra Mountain Dog (also known as th...
Read MoreThe Canine Survivors of the Titanic
According to J. Joseph Edgette of Widener University, there were twelve confirmed dogs that sailed on the Titanic. Only ...
Read MoreThe Widow’s Peak
When it comes to hair styles, people of a “certain age” will know immediately what a “D.A.” (or ...
Read MoreExpert Gearhead AND Purebred Dog Person
If you’re a serious “gearhead,” you might know of Jean Jennings, an automotive journalist for over th...
Read MoreThe Dachshund Brain
We thought you’d want to know. From the genius of Terry Pond http://www.terrypond.com/ http://www.cafepress.com/te...
Read MoreThe Original “Asta,” Not a Fox Terrier
He was a debonair and savvy, a “gumshoe” who “married up” when he tied the knot with beautiful a...
Read MoreWhat Breed Are These Babies?
The words in the pictures will tip you off as to the breed of these puppies, but we thought this was well worth sharing ...
Read MoreMove Over, Maddie
We love “Maddie.” We do! We love her for her unflappable demeanor while balancing on a basketball hoop, wear...
Read MoreThe First Record of an Organized Breeding Program in Europe
Sometime between 750 and 900, the monks of Saint Hubert, the patron saint of hounds and the hunt, began a regimented bre...
Read MoreThe Ibizan with a Pink Leg
This past summer (2017), artist, Pierre Huyghe, cut up the concrete floor of a disused and decaying ice rink. It was par...
Read MoreRepeat After Us: It’s the Brittany. Period.
Are you still calling the breed the Brittany Spaniel? Stop that. Originally, the AKC did recognize the breed as the Brit...
Read MoreThe Bichon Frise’s Name
We know the breed simply as the “Bichon,” and some have suggested that its name may have been the result of...
Read MoreMaine’s State Dog. Almost.
Maryland is one of only two states other than Maine with an official cat—the calico. Maine’s state cat is, not s...
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