Professional bird dog trainers exploded in numbers in the 50s, in large part because the popularity for training hunting...
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“Not at This House”
Though searching for human remains is not in everyone's wheelhouse, few would argue the value of bringing closure to ber...
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Rock and ROLL!
Preservation breeders know how well the long, low, wide and sturdy build of their breed is perfect for pushing through t...
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Dumb as a Rock or Smart as a Shiba?
We can't write that a Shiba Inu inspired this creation that made a multimillionaire of its inventor, but we tend to thin...
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Half and Half: The TT Growing Up Coat
It should go without saying (but probably should be occasionally mentioned to owners with enthusiastic scissor hands) th...
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The Kooiker Isn’t The Only One!
The next time you play Trivia Pursuit - purebred dog edition (remind us to invent it!), you will know that the Kooiker i...
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The Tightly Knit English Cocker
Various general dictionaries - those not specific to dogs - present "well knit" as meaning well constructed, tightly a...
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The Monetary Mudi
Back in 2019, the National Bank of Hungary and the Hungarian Mint issued a new series of coins featuring Hungarian breed...
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Itadakimasu!
Leave it to human beings to make a utilitarian item a collectable. These things have become highly decorative and have b...
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How About it, Alabama?
Official state dogs. There is an argument to be made that overlooking a dog breed entrenched in a state's history is to ...
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Blame “Vos” and his daughter, “Poets”
The breed isn't known as the "Jansenns Shepherd Dog," of course, but back in the day, they were sometimes called "Bleech...
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She Put the First Dog on the Cover of Vogue
Her covers for Vogue set traditional magazine cover design on its ear, and it was she who was responsible for putting th...
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A Wagging Tail by Any Name
Some sources refer to the Drever as the Swedish Beagle, possibly for its hound coloring, but by any name, this is a toug...
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Mammals that Don’t Need “a Hand”
Did you know that in the United States, ferrets are the third most popular pet after cats and dogs? And that it has some...
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The Norwich in an American Hunt
At one time, several Hunt Clubs kept Norwich Terrier kennels to take part in hunts. These working terriers were often ca...
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The Dog of Mary Quant
When Dame Mary Quant passed away last month at the age of 93, another icon of the era, Dame Lesley 'Twiggy' Lawson, was ...
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Taikoo” and “Dinkai”
When Cutting and his wife returned to Tibet two years later, that was when the Dalai Lama reciprocated by sending them a...
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How To Teach A Dog To Play Chess
It is a gross oversight, in our view, that no chess piece represents or depicts a dog, though it's a fun mental exercise...
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Pop Quiz: Where is the Superciliary Ridge?
Back in the day, there were phrases and terms in those old standards that today might be regarded as floral (read: super...
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