Great fun is made of the “high falutin” names fanciers give their showdogs, but unlike call names (the name ...
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Austria’s Only Non-Scenting Breed
Austria has only one non-scent hound breed, and it’s the Austrian Pinscher. That this is a very old breed is kno...
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Does Your Dog Have Round Bones or Flat Bones?
Whether their task is to hunt or to herd, well bred dogs are built to do their job, and that fact is bone deep. Literall...
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The Meat Dog. Happily, it’s Not What you Think
They were the Rodney Dangerfield of hunting dogs. While their carefully bred elite level cousins were used only in field...
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (and a Cairn Terrier)
If you’re not a cinema “color snob” (which is to say that if a movie is in black and white, you’...
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An Irish Piece of History
You might not be familiar with Charles Stewart Parnell unless you’re an Irish historian. He was a force with wh...
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Purebred v Landrace
Not every breed we mention is accepted by major registries, and sometimes there is even debate as to whether a dog we&#...
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The Xolo Marionette
The Xoloitzcuintli owes its name to the Aztecs who named the breed after their God of lightning and death, “Xolotl...
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When Did the Berner Get His Name?
It’s said that the breed’s original name was “durrbachler,” after an inn where these all-purpose...
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The Porsche of the Police Dog World
That the Belgian Malinois is an incredible police dog is well known: 75% of dogs used by the Los Angeles Police Depart...
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The Returning Soldier Initiative
A dog’s nose can do what no other resource can. They can find someone lost in the wilderness, and track down a mis...
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National Monument #53
During Korean dynastic rule, intellectuals at odds with the King were exiled to Jindo Island, a fate worse than death. O...
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The Vanishing Indian Breeds
There is good news and bad news coming out of India. The good news is that there is increased interest in purebred dog o...
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The Lyam Hound
If you had lived in the Middle Ages (and contrary to gossip, we didn’t), you might have been a monk or nun, peasan...
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Blanket-Back
In Rat Terriers, a “pie bald” dog is basically a white dog with any Rat Terrier color of spotting, but when ...
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The Pergo Great Dane
Earlier, we shared a cute commercial from Pergo that answered the question: What do our dogs do when we’re not hom...
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The Swashbuckler’s Dog
As terrific as Standard Schnauzers are, it was a 1930s and 40s cinematic heart throb who brought a good deal of attentio...
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The Blue Devils
We suppose the debate over Ireland’s true National Dog will always be a source of contention, but it seems undispu...
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Save the Dogs!
Only two toy breeds gained AKC recognition before the English Toy Spaniel: The Yorkshire Terrier and Pug (both in 1885)...
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