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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Curly, Wavy, and Flat. Which Survived?
If you’re aren’t familiar with the writer named, “Stonehenge,” you’re not a dog nerd yet, ...
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What’s Up With That Grooming?
We recently shared what we thought was a surprising bit of information about Boris Karloff, and now we want to expand a ...
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Elroy and Boudewijn, the Solar Corgi and Solar Dachshund, Respectively
People of a certain generation will remember bobble head dogs nodding their heads up and down in the back windows of car...
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Guess Who Bred Bedlington Terriers?
To get you in the mood for this post, watch a little of this classic movie from 1931 below: We doubt there’ll ever...
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Where the Bluetick Got Its “Blues”
The diversity of the people who settled in different American colonies was reflected in the dogs they brought with them:...
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Mixed Breed? Hardly.
How can you not love a dog described as, “the mustachioed dog with the sparkling eyes?” At first blush, ...
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From Last to Be Established To Most Beloved
One of the last of the retriever breeds to get established (if not the last) is also one of the world’s most bel...
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To Suggest Quality, Use Purebred Dogs
What we find interesting about Pijuan Design Workshop’s trio of modern dog houses isn’t that they were inspi...
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