“If you’ll be my bodyguard I can be your long lost pal I can call you Betty And Betty when you call me You c...
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The Old English Sheepdog: From a Dream to Disney
Once upon a time, a shaggy dog was forgotten and left behind when his people broke camp. An old man who’d already ...
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The Remarkable Animals of Friesland
A northwest county in the Netherlands called Friesland seems to produce exceptional animals, and we point to the equine ...
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The Monk Breeders
The highest church in the world is found in the Alps, 8,ooo feet up on what was once considered to be the most dangerous...
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The Dog Who Can Spot the Devil
One of the most ancient Tibetan myths is the legend of Shambala. This lost valley is hidden somewhere in the Himalayas i...
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The Vamp was “Pet-Drunk”
It’s time to get you in the mood, and while we couldn’t find good video, “the voice” should be e...
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A Big Step for American Russian Toy Fanciers
American enthusiasts of the Moscow Toy Terrier (better known in North American as the Russian Toy, or Russkiy Toy) got e...
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The Agár: NOT a Hungarian Greyhound
We know you want to say, “aa-GAR.” Don’t do it. In Hungarian, the emphasis is on a word’s first ...
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The Great Bambino and “Dot”
If you know that in the 1920s, ownership of a purebred dog was akin to a status symbol, you’ll better understand w...
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The Bingley Terrier. No, Make that the Waterside Terrier. No, it’s the Airedale Terrier!
We don’t know why the Airedale Orchestra renamed itself in 1982 from the Keighley and District Orchestral Society...
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Did You Fall in Love Your Breed Before You Even Met It?
How many of us, we wonder, have acquired our breed because of our ethnicity? It’s possibly the worst reason to get...
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Louis Leakey, Famed Paleoanthropolgist and Dalmatian Fancier
Very few people have never heard of Louis Leakey, the famed paleoanthropologist whose work expanded our knowledge of hu...
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How Owners of At-Risk Breeds Can Learn From Saito Hirokichi
There’s nothing like pride to make one appreciate that which they’ve taken for granted. In the 1920s, rising...
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The Shiba Inu: Japan’s National Treasure
In 1928, Saito Hirokichi started an effort to protect and preserve the native Japanese breeds. He was alarmed that in ma...
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The Story of Breeds is the Story of Real People
Around the time George married Lydia, his interest in “rough Greyhounds” began in earnest, dogs he’d s...
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Could This Be the Daddy of Them All?
The term, “sighthound” can be misleading when describing certain hounds from the Mediterranean region. Why...
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Give This Breed an Inch, and They’ll Take a Mile
A dog’s gotta do what a dog’s gotta dog, and Cairn Terriers have gotta dig. Nature sees to it that they can...
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Now THIS is a Tough Breed Quiz
When we came across an on-line quiz touted as the “hardest dog breed quiz ever,” we took a look at it and th...
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A Remarkable “Reinvention”
Bill probably did it for all the wrong reasons, but it’s to our benefit (to say nothing of the dogs’) that h...
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