The sighthound known as the Peruvian Inca Orchid is also known as the Peruvian Hairless Dog, but there is a coated vers...
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A Breed By Committee
One wouldn’t think that designing a dog by committee would end well, but Rudolf Frieß, Carl-Erich Grünewald, an...
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The Lot of the Earth Dog
In 1934, Dr. William Bruette wrote a “job description” for the Scottish Terrier: “There the cairns in ...
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The 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...
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Bernice 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...
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Meet 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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Dog Show Firsts
The first “modern” conformation dog show was held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, in June 1859, the only ...
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Three Dog Night: Which Breed Gets Bragging Rights?
Most of us familiar with the phrase, “Three Dog Night” associate it with the guys in the video below: The so...
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Words You Never Want to Have to Say
“My dog is missing,” “My dog has been stolen,” or “I can’t find my dog” have t...
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It Looks a Little Suggestive. What IS it?
It probably took Rhodesian Ridgeback owners less than a nanosecond to recognize a ridge pattern, and many of us who atte...
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Denmark’s Two Hunting Breeds: This is One of Them
Denmark has two indigenous hunting dog breeds, and one of them is the Old Danish Pointer, sometimes called the Old Danis...
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Extinct Breeds Live on in Our Dogs
In the town of Llanidloes, Wales, you’ll find camping sites, guest houses, bistros and craft shops. What you won&...
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Biblically Speaking
Biblically speaking, the Greyhound is the only breed of dog mentioned by name in the good book appearing in Proverbs 30:...
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Do You Know Your White LGDs?
In the United States, the breed seen in this painting is called the Great Pyrenees, but in the United Kingdom and on the...
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What Breed Does This Remind You Of?
How many items in our daily lives take their name from a dog breed? Behold the bulldog pipe. It has a diamond shank, t...
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The “Rough Going” Breed
“Rough going.” We understand why a breed standard would mention it in regards to stamina, a gamey spirit, ev...
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The Canine Ups and Downs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte had a rocky relationship with dogs. History alternately reports his displeasure with them, but also s...
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Watch Your Fingers!
The “black dog” is a ghost, a phantom, an apparition sometimes associated with the devil, and usually regar...
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The Demon Dog of Valle Crucis
There’s an eerily quiet little town in North Carolina called Valle Crucis, a place that takes its name (“Va...
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Kabar, the Doberman Pinscher Ghost
Since 1927, there has been a memorial service every August 23 at the Cathedral Mausoleum for Rudolph Valentino. It begin...
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