The truth is that the breed's heavily plumed tail, a characteristic of the breed, makes determining tail set hard to tel...
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Out, Damned Spot!
"Out damned spot!" is a line from William Shakespeare's play, "Macbeth," in which Lady Macbeth is trying to wash imagina...
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Only AKC Breed Standard to Mention This
The Pyr Shep's standard is the only one among all AKC breed standards to include this word as a desired texture, and for...
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Collar Envy (Long Thin Neck Envy, Too)
Gorgeous collars like the one in this image made by barcelonadogs aren't just for sighthounds, but you should know that ...
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A Breed or Not a Breed?
After digging into this, we are honestly not sure if it qualifies as a purebred dog or not. Certainly there are breeds n...
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Baseball Beagle
As we see it, Homer was only "singing the song of his people." Picking up the scent of hot dogs somewhere between first ...
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A Big Little Dog
As we see it, the Toy Fox Terrier is a marvelous combination of both Toy and Terrier traits: A mild temperament but not ...
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The Haystack Dog
“…there is nothing more Galician than the Can de Palleiro. A genuine dog of the country, the bravest defender of ho...
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An Old Breed Claims Oldest Dog EVER
According to that bastion of accurate information – the Internet – large breeds don’t live as long as ...
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Bee in The Bonnet
Bonnets eventually became associated with a matronly appearance, and by the late 19th century, they had all but vanished...
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Dogs Who “Tee” it up and “Go To Bat”
He was a spectacular kickoff specialist. He was so good that his abilities were featured on ESPN, and videos of him rout...
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A Notable Gathering of Xolos
His name was “Mee Too,” and in 1887, he became the first Xoloitzcuintli registered by the AKC. In 1940, a do...
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Short Backed but Over Plenty of Ground
The standard writes that the back is short, strong, and straight with a slight rise from the root of the tail to the wit...
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Cultural Treason
It should have been considered cultural treason when Italian poet, Filippo Marinetti, declared this to be “an absurd I...
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Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Why did Patton care if his young lieutenants knew their way around a foxhunt? It comes down to the phrase, "An Officer A...
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Say These Names, Speak This Language
Most people believe that the language is dead, having vanished with the last of the Aztecs in the 16th century, but if y...
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From Rock Concerts to Herding Trials
You have to admire someone who packs a lot of living into one life, and this guy went from being a rock star legend to n...
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Soft as…….
It is sleek, it is soft, and because it was expensive to produce at one time, it has a long association with royalty. Sc...
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