Emily Carr, a Canadian artist, writer and affirmed dog lover, suffered her first heart-attack in 1937, a second in 1939,...
Read MoreA Three-year-old Child in a Clown Suit
Owners of Miniature Bull Terriers have described their breed as a“ Three-year-old child in a clown suit!” The bre...
Read MoreLarge Hairy Beasts, and the Dogs are Great, too
This is a “loaded” post (a pun you’ll understand when you’re done reading) that was inspired by ...
Read MoreEars that “Tell Time”
Ears are an important part of Berger Picard type (pronounced “bare ZHAY pee CARR”). Naturally upright, the e...
Read MoreTarzan: The Man, the Airedale
In our humble opinion, the best portrayal of Tarzan ever was performed by Johnny Weissmuller. Though its said he was bo...
Read MoreThe Transhumance Dog
“Transhumance” sounds like something out of science fiction (like transferring a person from its human shape...
Read MoreWho Gave the Scottie its Nickname?
George Douglas, the first earl of Dumbarton in 1675, kept a pack of Scottish Terriers from Scotland that was so tough, h...
Read More“Ain’t Misbehavin”
We’re big fans of Lili Chin whose instructional posters help demonstrate (with the help of her Boston Terrier) inf...
Read MoreA Fascinating Connection You Might Not Know
August Schönberg was a self starter who made good on his advantages. Born to German Jews in Germany’s Rhenish Pal...
Read MoreCan you Name all the Japanese breeds? (trick question)
The Shiba Inu is the smallest of the eight spitz breeds native to Japan. Can you name all the Japanese breeds? The ans...
Read MoreThe Peke’s Early Names
When Pekingese first arrived in Britain in the 1860s, they were called Pekingese Spaniels and were grouped together with...
Read MoreNot Just Another Pretty Face #3
There are those who say that purebred dogs have passed their “sell by date” because many can no longer do th...
Read MoreThe First Movie Dog. It Wasn’t Strongheart, Rin Tin Tin, or Lassie
The first dog to have a leading role in a motion picture wasn’t Strongheart, Rin Tin Tin, or Lassie. It was Jean,...
Read MoreFerris Bueller’s Rottie
What movie goer can forget the scene from the 1986 comedy, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, when student dean, Ed Roone...
Read MoreA Scientist’s Ally
The sighthound known as the Peruvian Inca Orchid is also known as the Peruvian Hairless Dog, but there is a coated vers...
Read MoreA Breed By Committee
One wouldn’t think that designing a dog by committee would end well, but Rudolf Frieß, Carl-Erich Grünewald, an...
Read MoreThe Lot of the Earth Dog
In 1934, Dr. William Bruette wrote a “job description” for the Scottish Terrier: “There the cairns in ...
Read MoreThe Newest Kind of Detection Dog Keeping Us Safe
These days, we’d have to live in a bubble not to have encountered one of the many kinds of detections dogs that ar...
Read MoreBernice Has Longer Hair
It happens to all of us. We can usually tell the difference between two similar (to us) breeds when they’re standi...
Read MoreMeet the “Baby” With Her Own Ski Pass
The baby is all grown up. Back in 2017, we told you about Steamboat Springs, the Colorado Ski Resort that welcomed the n...
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