A sound, well bred dog bred by a heritage breeder who is conscious of their breed’s purpose and heritage is “not jus...
Read MoreThe Oldest of the French Sheepdogs?
The oldest of the French sheepdogs is thought by some cynologists to be the Berger Picard because dogs strikingly simila...
Read MoreOur Breeds’ Early Dogs: How Do We Know?
We owe a debt to early artists whose work reveal to us what breeds looked like before the first photograph of a dog wa...
Read MoreGerman Shepherds Who Have Lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
If you remember the last German Shepherd Dog to live in the White House, we won’t disclose how old you probably ar...
Read MoreFeet, Don’t Fail Me Now
English Foxhounds and American Foxhounds (among a few others) are sometimes referred to as “running gear breeds...
Read MoreHe “Gets” Greyhounds
Richard Skipworth is one of our favorite artists ever for one simple reason. Well, two, actually. He not only “get...
Read MoreRussia’s First Cocker Spaniel
Nikolai Nikolaevich was an avid hunter known for his packs of superb hunting Borzoi. It was said the the dogs would chas...
Read MoreWhen Wrinkles aren’t a Good Thing
Unless you’re a raisin, wrinkles are never a welcome sight, and the same holds true in our dogs. How so? Because w...
Read MoreHow a Poodle and a Boxer Made Science
Most of us know that mapping a genome is important, but not all of us know exactly why cracking the dog genome was such ...
Read MoreA Congress for the PWD
Portuguese Water Dogs are one of Europe’s oldest breeds. In Southern Portugal in an area called “Algarve,&...
Read MoreThe Ancient Elkhound
The place – a cave, actually – served as a shelter for around 25 people some years ago. They lived an agricu...
Read MoreMinneapolis/St. Paul’s First Police Dog
He was the first police dog to be used to effect in Minneapolis/St. Paul between 1967 and 1972, and his impact on law en...
Read MoreBeagle Packs – They Still Exist!
Portraits of Beagles are surprisingly rare in the nineteenth century, possibly because by then, Foxhounds had become mor...
Read MoreA Border Collie named Yam + Kickstarter + Beer
We have a bit of experience with crowdsourcing, and in particular, the Kickstarter platform that helped National Purebr...
Read MoreMeet One of the Rarest Breeds in the World
You just never know where a purebred dog will show up. Who would have guessed that ancient English Bulldogs were brought...
Read MoreRingo Starr: Purebred Dog Owner
If you’re of a certain age, brace yourself. Beatles’ drummer, Ringo Starr, turned 77 years old over this pa...
Read MoreThe Only Dog Recognized by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots’ Association
When Callie racked up more than 250 flying hours in a six seater Cessna light aircraft, she was given her own crew card,...
Read MoreBeagle Power in Cartoon Land
While most of us would probably guess that Peanuts was the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip, it’s actu...
Read More“Terrier(s) of Wales”
Two different terriers have been identified as the “Terrier of Wales,” and it will come as no surprise that ...
Read MoreThe Difference that Inches can Make
There are better examples on the Internet of what dogs see based on their size, but none for which we have permission, s...
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