A Fascinating Connection You Might Not Know
…large part because of family connections. A quick study, August rose through the ranks, and in 1837 he moved to the Big Apple and opened a small office on Wall…
…large part because of family connections. A quick study, August rose through the ranks, and in 1837 he moved to the Big Apple and opened a small office on Wall…
…its bark to locate, flush, and gather sheep back into the flock. One breed that comes to mind as an exemplar of this style of herding (besides the New Zealand…
Simply put, the Greyhound breed is old. Really old. Reference is even made to the breed in the Bible by name: Proverbs 30:29-31 King James Version (KJV) 29 There be…
…commercial below is “Storm,” a Collie owned by a friend of NPDD, Jessica Baldwin. Two of the others are dogs named “Kane” and “Heather” owned by Heather Circle. To watch…
…few breeds The study conducted on the fragment (likely a part of a rib) was published back in 2015 in Current Biology, and it included a reconstruction of the bone’s…
…this really true? In 2012, a study investigating Sexual Size Dimorphism (SSD) looked at 6,221 individuals of 74 breeds ranging in height from less than 19 cm in Chihuahua to…
…need to be shaved down in the summer; • One of our personal favorites: Mutts are always healthier than purebred dogs (a University of California/Davis study stuck a pin in…
…Cane Paratore, sometimes called the Cane Toccatore. In 2018, a genetic study identified it as one of the five Italian herding breeds to come out of a 19th century broadly-distributed…
…characteristic feature of the breed), and a scowling expression, other dogs instantly recognize the tacit message: Don’t mess with me. Indeed, the study guide for AKC Judges mentions that the…
…conducted a massive eight year study involving 67,368 dogs from 45 different breeds to learn if a dog’s height, weight, and the shape of its head factored into behavior, and…
…utterly inexplicable (something that makes total sense to the dog at the time). We forgive them. A study done in Budapest (one of the epicenters of research on dogs) found…
…it. There’s never been a better time create sound future generations of a breed. DNA tests, blood work screening, OFA, BAER, and CERF tests, CHIC results, pedigree software, these are…
…dogs are livestock herders and protectors, but they were also loyal companions to Sardinian bandits hiding in the woods. The breed takes its name from the town of Fonni in…
…wait for science to come up with tests that proved everyone wrong. A 2018 genetic analysis conducted by a team that included Elaine A. Ostrander revealed (to their surprise, btw)…
…emotion affected by stress. One 2006 study found that mindfulness art therapy for women with cancer helped significantly decrease the symptoms of physical and emotional distress during treatment. Another study…
…to figure out the genetic basis of biological diversity. Since the study, more has been learned. Curly coats, for example, are a common phenotype in many breeds and they’re known…
…of the 39 chromosomes and even a detailed gene study of some of these chromosomes. As a result, a geneticist from Mars Veterinary working with the BTCA released news in…
…by a veterinarian aware of its special blood characteristics lest something go undiagnosed, or needless treatment is applied. “Greyhounds Galgo Whippet Sighhound Podenco” Watercolor by Tanja Kooymans -TanjaOnTheWall https://www.etsy.com/shop/TanjaOnTheWall www.facebook.com/TanjaOnTheWallkilgorkil…
…Chihuahua just might have the world’s biggest personality for its size, and nothing is better at being a cat than a cat. Image: “Meditating Chihuahua” by John LaFree johnlafree.com …
…Great in a letter to Wilhelmina, his sister, over the loss of his beloved “Biche,” an Italian Greyhound. Wilhelmina completely understood. Sixteen years earlier, Wilhelmina wrote in her diary: “A…