In reference to the Basset Hound, most of us know that the word, “basset” comes from the French word meaning...
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The Hock: What Difference Does it Make?
Hocks. What’s a hock, and if you’re a dog owner who doesn’t show their dog or participate in performan...
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Sásta lá St Patrick!*
*Irish for Happy St. Patrick’s Day It’s the wearing of the green today, and a pair of Glen of Imaal Terriers...
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A Snippet of Cesky Terrier History
The Cesky Terrier‘s story begins with a young boy named František Horák born in the early 20th century. While s...
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Long, Stub, Bob or Docked
Few breed standards have as an encompassing acceptance of various tails as does the Swedish Vallhund. “Tail may b...
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Beans! And the Dog Who Helps Sell Them
From tapping into our inner girl, to being a bad ass dude, our dogs can match our mood. “Duke,” the official...
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A “Good Mastive Dog” and Some Good Bulldoggs”
Bulldogs are known to have entertained English royalty for some 350 years through a cruel sport called bull-baiting, but...
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The “Bee Sting Tail”
You won’t find this in the Pointer’s AKC breed standard, and more’s the pity because “old school...
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The Irish Wolfhound as Street Art
Human beings have been drawing on surfaces for thousands of years, from the walls of caves to the ceilings of chapels. W...
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Who Put These Socks on a Fence?
As we populate our website with popular posts from Facebook, we’d be remiss in not reprising this one. Yes, what y...
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My Blue Heaven
“My Blue Heaven,” was a popular hit song in 1928, but for a lot of dog owners, heaven is their “blue&#...
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My Left Feet
Actress, Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband, Chris, owned two dogs that Chris frequently took to the local dog park. There...
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The Decoy Dog
Did you know that the word, “decoy,” is an abbreviation of the Dutch word endekooy or eendenkooi (meaning ...
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First in, Last In
It’s tempting to muse why it is that some of the oldest breeds in the world are among the last to be accepted by ...
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A Moment of Escape
If you’re back east, you’re enduring a wicked snowstorm. If you’re anywhere else, you’re bidin...
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His name was Ch Achilles
His name was Ch Achilles. He stood 23 inches tall, but his 30″ long hair dragged on the ground as he strolled. He ...
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Flier,Walkie-Talkie,Jump Hound,Jump Dog,Tail Hound and Yoick.Huh?
Certain breeds have a language all their own, and if we’re discussing hounds they certainly have their own uniq...
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Where the Frenchie Got its Name
Most of us can relate to losing a job, so we can feel for the lacemakers whose enemy wasn’t a better lacemaker, bu...
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The Norfolk and Norwich: Ears and a Tail Wag?
There was a time in England when the Norfolk Terrier was regarded as a variation of the Norwich Terrier, both being know...
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Can Show Dogs Work?
We have a two-part post: Here’s the first part, the latest hint about this coming week’s Purebred of Inter...
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