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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A 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...
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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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