In the mid 1930s, Japanese Imperial military officials seeing conflict on the Asian Continent grow preferred as their ar...
Read MoreHearst’s Helen
William Randolph Hearst was not a popular man in his day. The businessman, politician, and newspaper magnate who built...
Read More“Brains, Beauty, and Bird Sense”
The heaviest of the four setters is also Scotland’s only native gun dog, the Gordon Setter. Gordons were once re...
Read MoreThe Top Ten Grooming “Joys”
The Top Ten Grooming “joys” according to “Amanda” 10. Dremeling your own nails when you miss t...
Read MoreBelge – What is It?
Color is not a major consideration in the Affenpinscher, and black, gray, silver, red, and black and tan are all accepte...
Read MoreThe Circus Dog That Wasn’t
Rumors are hard things to dispel, especially in the dog world, and one of the more popular ones is that the Golden Retr...
Read MorePeru’s National Dog
The national dog of Peru has many names, and the two “official” ones are a mouthful: The Peruvian Inca Orchi...
Read MoreDentally Speaking
Most breed standards mention teeth in terms of bite, i.e., a scissors bite, a level bite, etc., but one or two standards...
Read MoreThe Vegetarian Breed On the Verge of Extinction
We delight in bringing “new” breeds to you, but the Bakharwal Dog, one of the oldest livestock guardian bree...
Read MoreSix seconds of a Patterdale Terrier
The Lake District in the United Kingdom is known for its rocky hills (or fells) that was sheep grazing country “...
Read More“Beannaithe”
The Irish Water Spaniel: Clown, comedian, practical joker, and possessor of a wicked sense of humor. This exuberant cani...
Read MoreYour Dog’s Pasterns
There are 206 bones in the human body, and hands and feet together make up more than half them; 106 are in the h...
Read MoreUConn’s “Jonathan”
The 2017 University of Connecticut football season got off to a good start with a win over Holy Cross (sorry, Crusaders...
Read MoreFrom Sheep to Dogs
Tug on a strand of political history and you’ll often find something about it that impacted dogs. Some of us will ...
Read MoreToday’s Purebred Dog Can’t Work. Oh Really?
You know how “they” say today’s purebred dog can’t do the job for which it was created? “They” haven’t m...
Read MoreA Wax Seal for the Dog Owner
E-mail and text messaging have all but obliterated the use of wax seals, a pity, in our view. Historically, wax seals we...
Read MoreThe Agouti Gene
They were known as ” “Wolfspitzen” in Germany, and in France, they went by “Chiens Loup.” ...
Read MoreThat “Umm Umm” Wet Dog Smell
Dog people are perpetual students with an inherent curiosity, that, and many of us have breeds we wash a lot. That said,...
Read MoreThe Dog That Can Entertain the Entertainer
Frank Sinatra was bummed. Rock and Roll was on the ascendancy, and it left little room for the kind of music the croone...
Read MoreThe Berner and the Flag
Switzerland has one of the only two square shaped sovereign-state flags in the world (the other is the Vatican City flag...
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