There are six retriever breeds recognized by the AKC, and they are (in no particular order): Labrador Retriever Flat-Coa...
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“Perfect Demon”
We don’t always know how a breed acquired its nickname, particularly when its history is lost to time. In some cas...
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The First Pet Therapists
We struggle with the work of Dr. Samuel A. Corson who spent years using dogs to conduct research on the effects of stre...
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A War Over Deerhounds
The Picts were a tribe of people who lived in what is today eastern and northern Scotland during the Late Iron Age and E...
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Ragged Couples?
The English Foxhound has a curious passage in its breed standard when describing the back and loin: “Must both be ...
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A Feminist Pirate in the Family
She was one of the original bad girls, a woman so vilified by her English adversaries that they described her as “...
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The Vehicular Greyhound
The 1961 AC Greyhound seen here didn’t set the world on fire when it was first made, and today’s car enthusi...
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The First Postage Stamp With a Dog – What breed?
Philately. It’s stamp collecting, and postage stamps featuring dogs have been among the most appealing of small an...
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The Irish “Wolf Dog’s” first Reliable Mention
Many of our dog breeds have been touched by the influence of the clergy, whether it’s through development (Reveren...
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Size Doesn’t Always Matter!
Toy breeds are too often dismissed by people who’ve never lived with one. Owners know better. These dogs are far f...
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Not Just Another Pretty Face #7
We’ve been introducing you to some dogs who are “Not Just Another Pretty Face,” our series on dogs who aren&...
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Color and Water
It’s been long observed that many Livestock Guardian Dogs are white, the supposition being that the white dogs ble...
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It’s Enough to Make You Crabby
Crabbing. It’s easy to spot in a moving dog. In “dog speak,” crabbing is when a dog should be moving...
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The Prague Ratter
One could be forgiven, we suspect, for mistaking this dog for another breed, in part because the Prague Ratter is so rar...
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What is Vicky’s Breed?
“Vicky,” the dog in the photo, was six years old at the time of the photo was taken. Can you determine what...
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Blinking: A Man Made Problem in a Bird Dog
The term, “blinker,” is not something one wants to be true of their hunting dog because it refers to a dog w...
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Who was Nana?
One of the most famous roles written for a dog is that of “Nana,” the doggie nursemaid in Peter Pan, but ove...
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The Round Rear
Many folks would be highly offended if they were described as having an “apple round rear,” but it’s a...
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There’s a Name For That
On the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, there is usually a white mark on the dog’s tail tip, feet, chest and/or...
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