Those not friendly to the sport will insist that dog shows are nothing more than beauty contests, but fanciers know bett...
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My Blue Heaven
What do you get when twenty-four colors and nine allowed markings acceptable to the AKC are for just for one toy breed? ...
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“The White Dog that Breeds White”
Most of the first Samoyeds that came to England (and the United States) at the end of the 19th century were descendants ...
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The Little Things That Had a “Why”
If we don’t know the history of our breeds, we may not always know why our dogs are “built” the way th...
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A Fashion Icon & his Yorkies
We knew someone whose young teenager was scouted and recruited by a high fashion model agency to do runway work. The kid...
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A New Wave of Pug…in the 19th Century
Recently, a reader shared photos of a couple of items donated to the shop in which she works. She shared them with us to...
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When You Have Lemons – Make a Beagle!
“Any true hound color” ‘is not terribly helpful to the potential Beagle owner who wants to show, and p...
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The Italian….Herding Dog?
Strong. Brave. Fast. Some say even fearsome looking. A hunter, a companion, a guard dog, even catch dog. These are a f...
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Wallace, the Regiment’s Saint Bernard
His name was Alexander. He was named after the chap who was the Pipe Major of the 1st Battalion The Canadian Scottish Re...
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Prize-Fighter of the Canine World
Uruguay’s only recognized native breed, the Cimarrón Uruguayo, is so little known outside the country that as of 2002...
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Before the Dunker, There Was the Russian Harlequin Hound
You would be forgiven for being unfamiliar with the Russian Harlequin Hound. The dog found almost exclusively inside of ...
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Bull Terrier: Oink Oink
A curious thing happens to breed standards over time. Some get shorter, some get longer, some have old words substitut...
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Thunder and Fracture
“Thunder” and “Fracture” seem to us to be perfect names for a terrier, and as it happens, both w...
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All You Need is Love
On a Sunday in June in 1967, the largest television audience up to that date – some 700 million people from 24 c...
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What Wm. Rauch Did For Dog Shows
When William Rauch died in 1930, his passing was reported in the New York Times. The short piece said that he was 68 yea...
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The FSS and One of its Breeds
In April of 2011, the AKC had sixty breeds in its Foundation Stock Service (FSS) program, but in the last eleven years...
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What is a Working Standard?
Most people – and certainly readers of NPDD – know that every breed accepted by a kennel club like the AKC h...
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You Might Have These In Your Closet
In 1905, Charles Beckman and fourteen other local business investors organized the Red Wing Shoe Company based in Red Wi...
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The First Glimpse of Two Collie Varieties
It’s hard to consider that something could be revived over 250 years ago when from our 21st century eyes, it seems...
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Mystery Solved
As owners of the breed, we were always puzzled by references to the Puli as having once been called the Hungarian Water ...
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