William Randolph Hearst was not a popular man in his day. The businessman, politician, and newspaper magnate who built...
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“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...
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The Top Ten Grooming “Joys”
The Top Ten Grooming “joys” according to “Amanda” 10. Dremeling your own nails when you miss t...
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Belge – What is It?
Color is not a major consideration in the Affenpinscher, and black, gray, silver, red, and black and tan are all accepte...
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The 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...
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Peru’s National Dog
The national dog of Peru has many names, and the two “official” ones are a mouthful: The Peruvian Inca Orchi...
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Dentally Speaking
Most breed standards mention teeth in terms of bite, i.e., a scissors bite, a level bite, etc., but one or two standards...
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The 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...
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Six 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 “...
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“Beannaithe”
The Irish Water Spaniel: Clown, comedian, practical joker, and possessor of a wicked sense of humor. This exuberant cani...
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Your 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...
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UConn’s “Jonathan”
The 2017 University of Connecticut football season got off to a good start with a win over Holy Cross (sorry, Crusaders...
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From 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 ...
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Today’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...
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A 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...
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The Agouti Gene
They were known as ” “Wolfspitzen” in Germany, and in France, they went by “Chiens Loup.” ...
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That “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,...
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The 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...
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The 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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Agatha Christie’s “Bingo”
Agatha Christie fans may be well acquainted with the detectives, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their last appearance was...
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