It was a Hungarian nobleman who gave us the first – and earliest – account of a terrier resembling the Bedli...
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Fritz, the overlooked Siberian Husky
In the photo below, meet “Fritz.” He appears at the right at a moment he was sitting in the tundra of the Se...
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Goodbye, Doris Day. You Leave Us With Mixed Feelings
What does one do when the death of an icon brings to the surface mixed feelings? Doris Day passed away from pneumonia to...
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Ireland’s Terriers in Order
Ireland native terriers are much beloved in the Irish counties which spawned them, and each has its own “claim to ...
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The American Hairless Terrier – Not Always Hairless!
Hairlessness is recessive in the American Hairless Terrier. A hairless to hairless breeding results in all hairless pups...
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Night and Day
To anyone who isn’t a musicologist, or hasn’t seen any Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger movies, Cole Porter is ...
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Invest Like a Dog
If breeds don’t matter, why do so many companies use purebred dogs in their ads? Would the “beauty salonR...
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Matts: Expected in one Breed, Dreaded in the Other
Unless one is a professional groomer, or owns and grooms different breeds, it’s hard to relate to the challenges t...
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May 1 is National Purebred Dog Day!
National Purebred Dog Day® celebrates the heritage, diversity and predictability of the purebred dog. Each breed is a l...
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Just Don’t Say “Keesh-hound”
As languages go, Dutch just might be one of the most difficult “tongues” to pronounce (giving proper respect...
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Indonesia’s Only Official Breed
Originating from the mountains of Kintamani, Bali in Indonesia is the Kintamani Dog, the first Indonesian dog breed to g...
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They Were Toy Poodle Babies!
Our Pulik are poor sources when it comes to discerning the differences between the Poodles based on size, but history te...
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The Pile of Rocks Specialist
Perhaps you’ve seen stacks of rocks by the side of a road – a small stone placed atop a bigger one which is ...
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Chests: Shallow/Deep
If you don’t show your dog, you may think it doesn’t really matter if you know whether your dog has a deep b...
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Silent but Deadly
Terriers have a reputation for being barkers, but this is a rather broad characterization of an entire group of dogs, an...
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Cuman, Not Magyar
Hungary is the land of the Magyars, a Finno-Ugric people who originated in the Urals and migrated westward to settle in ...
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The “Secret Pet Cemetery”
A pet cemetery, in our view, is nothing like a cemetery for humans. A gravestone for a human suggests a story, to be sur...
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Portugal’s Robust First Mate
Perspective is everything. In our view, one should look at a period of time not from today’s vantage point, but fr...
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Shih Tzu Legends
The smallest of the Tibetan holy dogs has wonderful legends associated with it, most having to do with Buddhist mytholog...
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Terrier or Toy?
When Yorkshire Terriers who’d been imported into Australia were bred with native Australian Terriers, the result w...
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