It’s difficult to know with certainty the origin of the Bichon Frise‘s name. “Frise” is French f...
Read MoreOrange, Chocolate, and the Griffon
Walk through the airport in Amsterdam, and one quickly notices two things (in this order): The color orange, and chocola...
Read MoreKenyon College’s Canines
Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio is known as a fine liberal arts college; graduates include Academy Award-winning actor,...
Read MoreThe Largest of the Setters: Beauty, Brains and Birdsense
The largest of the setters is also the heaviest, most heavily coated, and most methodical worker of the setters, as wel...
Read MoreLivestock Guardian Dog Owners: What Say You?
As of the 1990s, it was estimated that over 50% of sheep ranchers in the western United States use LGDs – or Lives...
Read MoreThe Silver Dollar Water Game
On the Eastern shore of Maryland, a buck will buy you maybe one oyster on the half shell, but back in the day, it was a ...
Read MoreThe Border Type and the Highland Type = Today’s Beardie
Around the time Bearded Collies were called Old Welsh Sheepdogs, Mountain Scotch Collies, Loch Collies, Highland Collies...
Read MoreThe Beagle Didn’t Die
Back in the day, Â a common expression used to tell someone that one was pregnant was that “the rabbit died.”...
Read MoreChess, Doggie Style
Chess isn’t just for adults, bookworms, or nerds. Children who learn to play chess grasp the ability to look ahead...
Read MoreDogs See More
A nice way to end a long day is to see a well crafted commercial using several purebred dogs. Enjoy! ...
Read MoreThe Glen of Imaal: You Think You Know a Breed….
There are a few theories as to how an achondroplastic breed named after the Glen of Imaal in County Wicklow, Ireland (po...
Read MoreWhat Breed was Abuwtiyuw, One of the First Dogs Whose Name We Know?
He was a god to his people, the divine ruler of Upper and Lower Egypt, but his heart broke in very human fashion when hi...
Read MoreOnly 3,000 In The World
The working dog that walks with a slight waddle is rarely seen outside Azores, Portugal, an archipelago characterized b...
Read MoreMino, San’in, and Shinshu
Before World War II, there were three types of 地犬, or Shiba Inu in Japan: The Mino, the San’in, and the Shinsh...
Read MoreTHIS is a German Shepherd*
The man in this photograph is a shepherd. As it happens, *he’s a Romanian Shepherd tending his flock in the FăgÄ...
Read MoreThe French Butcher’s Dog
In the 14th century, three kinds of Dogues (French for “mastiff”) were living in France, and they were all c...
Read MoreMove Over Corgis, the Queen Loves Labrador Retrievers, too
As famous as Her Majesty is for her love of the Royal Corgis (she’s had more than 30 during her reign), less known...
Read MoreThe Queen, the Corgi, and Mr. Shaken Not Stirred
Tomorrow, we’re going to post about Queen Elizabeth’s other favorite breed, but for now, we reprise one of o...
Read MoreThe “Hot” Peruvian Inca Orchid
The Peruvian Inca Orchid is a lean, deep chested sighthound that comes as a hairless and coated variety, but the hairles...
Read MoreThe Extraordinary Dogo
Many of our beloved breeds have in their ancestry other breeds, Â and a breed like the Black Russian Terrier has a whole...
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