We were chagrined to learn that we missed King Tut Day last month. Evidently, it’s on November 4, the date archeo...
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The Cost to the Dogs and a Breed
Dog fighting is a brutal and cruel activity that we won’t even deem to call a “sport,” but, sadly, it ...
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The Indian Panther Hound – Better known as the Gaddi Kutta
“Animals grow biggest in India,” wrote Pliny the Elder. The Roman author and naturalist even devoted eleven ...
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The First Canine Ever Photographed Was a Purebred Dog!
The world’s first photograph made in a camera was taken in 1826, but we had to wait until the 1850s for the devi...
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Not Just Another Pretty Face #4
A sound, well bred dog bred by a heritage breeder who is conscious of their breed’s purpose and heritage is “not jus...
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The 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...
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Our 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...
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German 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...
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Feet, Don’t Fail Me Now
English Foxhounds and American Foxhounds (among a few others) are sometimes referred to as “running gear breeds&#...
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He “Gets” Greyhounds
Richard Skipworth is one of our favorite artists ever for one simple reason. Well, two, actually. He not only “get...
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Russia’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...
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When 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...
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How 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 ...
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A Congress for the PWD
Portuguese Water Dogs are one of Europe’s oldest breeds. In Southern Portugal in an area called “Algarve,&...
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The Ancient Elkhound
The place – a cave, actually – served as a shelter for around 25 people some years ago. They lived an agricu...
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Minneapolis/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...
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Beagle Packs – They Still Exist!
Portraits of Beagles are surprisingly rare in the nineteenth century, possibly because by then, Foxhounds had become mor...
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A Border Collie named Yam + Kickstarter + Beer
We have a bit of experience with crowdsourcing, and in particular, the Kickstarter platform that helped National Purebr...
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Meet 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...
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