Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio is known as a fine liberal arts college; graduates include Academy Award-winning actor,...
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The 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...
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Livestock 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...
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The 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 ...
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The 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...
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The 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.”...
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Chess, Doggie Style
Chess isn’t just for adults, bookworms, or nerds. Children who learn to play chess grasp the ability to look ahead...
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Dogs See More
A nice way to end a long day is to see a well crafted commercial using several purebred dogs. Enjoy! ...
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The 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...
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What 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...
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Only 3,000 In The World
The working dog that walks with a slight waddle is rarely seen outside Azores, Portugal, an archipelago characterized b...
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Mino, 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...
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THIS 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...
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The French Butcher’s Dog
In the 14th century, three kinds of Dogues (French for “mastiff”) were living in France, and they were all c...
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Move 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...
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The 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...
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The “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...
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The 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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Malinois Don’t Need No Stinking Thumbs*
Leave it to a Belgian Malinois to get in on the latest fidget spinner craze.  Police K9 “Wrecker” is a Bel...
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The Retriever from Newfoundland
While some breeds are named after the area from which they hail, such is not the case with the Labrador Retriever, often...
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