Many breeds retain the color they’re born as into adulthood, but some don’t. We’ve known of Havanese...
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How Not to Sell One of the World’s Favorite Dogs
Putting a “for sale” sign on a dog was one way to indicate its availability. So was throwing it into water a...
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The Only Single Coat Livestock Guardian Breed?
About 1000 meters above sea level in the far north of Portugal is the mountainous region of Castro Laboreiro and Parque ...
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The English Springer Spaniel Cancer Detecting Dog
Nearly 137,000 people viewed this post from 2015 at a time when we were half the numbers we are now, and over 1,000 peop...
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How They Swim
In a study by Dr. Frank Fish of West Chester University, eight different dogs of six breeds ranging from the Yorkshire ...
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Jeff Koon’s Poodle
Many of us associate Jeff Koons with his “Balloon Dog,” but his 1991 piece, “Poodle,” proves th...
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The “Ouch!” Coat
Five people were blindfolded and asked to identify an animal by touch alone. The first person felt the animal’s ...
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Purebred Dogs, Helping Mankind In Another Way
Each dog breed possesses a particular suite of physical and behavioral traits that help distinguish it from other breeds...
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The Bolonka
The Soviets had little use for companion dogs, let alone toy breeds, valuing instead dogs that could work, earn their ke...
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The Topiary Poodle
To call Andreas Verheijen a “flower engineer,” as he refers to himself, is to engage in understatement.The...
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Honoring a Point
We first heard the term, “honoring a point,” during an anecdote shared with us about Pointers at a dog show:...
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The Boxer – Herding Dog?
We love seeing dogs do the job for which they were bred, but sometimes, that job can include “non-traditional̶...
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The Most Important Aspect to Your Breed’s Type?
We haven’t talked about “type” here for a while, but it’s important enough to bring up every so ...
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Name the Breed Associated with This Image
If you identified the image at the left as the “paisley” pattern, you’re half way to identifying any o...
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Purebred Dog Beads
It has long been a casual observation of ours that purebred dog owners seem to be an especially talented lot of artists...
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The Beaded Dog
Bead embroidery dates back several thousand years and is often found on ceremonial robes, chest plates, jewelry and hea...
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“Gentle Lion”
We’ve had a decidedly “Westminster” feel to our posts this week, and as we come off the purebred dog l...
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Norway’s (and once upon a time, Sweden’s) National Breed
Some of you may have watched the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on TV or live streaming this past week, and if you wat...
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The “Parti-Poodle:” Word Origin
It isn’t for us to weigh in on Parti-colored Poodles (they’re presently not accepted by the AKC for the conf...
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From Bin Laden to Tiger Poachers
It was a Belgian Malinois that nabbed Bin Laden, and dogs employed by the U.S. Secret Service to guard the grounds at ...
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