Back in 1991, “A Dog Fancier’s History Quiz” by Stacey Jeanne Farley appeared in the #AKC Gazette (b...
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Count Hamilton’s Hound
Hound breeds have been known in Sweden only since the 16th Century, and up until 1789, hunting with them was a privilege...
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Do You Pick the Scottie? What Your Monopoly Piece Says about You
Horrors! What was the world coming to when Monopoly announced that it was ditching one of its iconic tokens, the thimble...
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How The Corgi lost His Tail
Legends surrounding the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, and the breed’s connection to fairies are well known, but here̵...
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Balloon Dog’s Innards
The highest price ever paid for a single work by a living artist was set in 2013 when Jeff Koons’ 12′ high s...
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One of the Few Ridgeback Breeds
This stunner is a Thai Ridgeback, also known as a Mah Thai Lang Ahn. The breed has a unique characteristic – a r...
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Flirt, Punk, and Loo
Emily Carr, a Canadian artist, writer and affirmed dog lover, suffered her first heart-attack in 1937, a second in 1939,...
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A 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...
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Large 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 ...
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Ears that “Tell Time”
Ears are an important part of Berger Picard type (pronounced “bare ZHAY pee CARR”). Naturally upright, the e...
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Tarzan: 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...
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The Transhumance Dog
“Transhumance” sounds like something out of science fiction (like transferring a person from its human shape...
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Who 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...
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“Ain’t Misbehavin”
We’re big fans of Lili Chin whose instructional posters help demonstrate (with the help of her Boston Terrier) inf...
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A 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...
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Can 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...
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The Peke’s Early Names
When Pekingese first arrived in Britain in the 1860s, they were called Pekingese Spaniels and were grouped together with...
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Not 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...
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The 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,...
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Ferris Bueller’s Rottie
What movie goer can forget the scene from the 1986 comedy, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, when student dean, Ed Roone...
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