We confess a weakness for breeds with descriptive names, and certainly the Chien Francais Blanc et Orange (or White and...
Read MoreA Weekend with Chance of Snow
It’s the weekend, there’s snow (for some of us), and that means frisky time for our coated breeds! Photo of ...
Read MorePoodle Plates
Poodle people, wouldn’t it be fun to have a second set of dinnerware celebrating your breed? The pattern is called...
Read MoreThe Blonde Bombshell’s Dog
If you were an incandescent screen siren known as the Blonde Bombshell and could own any dog you wanted, what would you...
Read MoreIs There a Talbot in Your Breed’s History?
Many hound-owning dog nerds (you know who you are) who love to investigate their breed’s deep history will likely ...
Read MoreThe Hunting Cocker Spaniel
With its stunning coat and melt-on-contact gaze, it’s easy to forget that the Cocker Spaniel is a working dog, an...
Read MoreRacing into Friday
“Panda” is always ready to race into Friday! Photo by Trish Dreby...
Read MoreThe Linen Guard Dogs
Flax, from which linen is made, is adapted to soils that are good for wheat or oats, but not to poorly drained soils. As...
Read MoreA Snippet of Belgian Laekenois History
The Laekenois is considered both the oldest and the most rare of the Belgian Shepherd Dogs, but in the late 1800s, all t...
Read MoreRidge Origins
The Rhodesian Ridgeback‘s ridge is a splendid thing, and a hallmark of the breed. While ridgelessness does occur, ...
Read MoreThe Purebred Muse
Composer, Leonard Bernstein, was an avid dog lover who was known to come home with a new dog on more than one occasion....
Read MoreThe Narrow Rear
We all love having a dog come to us when we call, but “dog nerds” also like to watch a dog walk away. Some a...
Read MoreThe Land of Terriers
England has produced more terrier breeds, and done more to establish terriers as a canine type, than any other country, ...
Read MoreThe Smallest Drovers in the World
For a rancher and farmer, size is an important consideration when choosing a dog to work their stock, and one certain ap...
Read MoreThe Tweed Water Spaniel
Not every breed we mention on NPDD is a dog one will ever find in the flesh. Some breeds fell into the cracks of history...
Read MoreHorand von Grafrath: First German Shepherd Dog
German history had its ebbs and flows of national pride, but what never wavered was an embedded tradition of dependable,...
Read MoreThe Fashion Forward Dog (winkie winkie)
In 1986, Ilene Hockberg published a take-off of the world’s most famous fashion magazine and called it “Dogu...
Read MoreBreed Type and Coats
We often talk about “type,” – those visual qualities that make a Doberman Pinscher look nothing like a...
Read MorePizza Thieving Arsonists. Got One?
We’ve loved the ad below by Travelers Insurance and shared its hilarity with a new friend we met over the weekend...
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