A lot of us enjoy the Farmers Insurance commercials, particularly when they include dogs. Remember this one? (insiders c...
Read More
The 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 More
Racing into Friday
“Panda” is always ready to race into Friday! Photo by Trish Dreby...
Read More
The 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 More
A 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 More
Ridge Origins
The Rhodesian Ridgeback‘s ridge is a splendid thing, and a hallmark of the breed. While ridgelessness does occur, ...
Read More
The 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 More
The 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 More
The Land of Terriers
England has produced more terrier breeds, and done more to establish terriers as a canine type, than any other country, ...
Read More
The 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 More
The 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 More
Horand 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 More
The 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 More
Breed Type and Coats
We often talk about “type,” – those visual qualities that make a Doberman Pinscher look nothing like a...
Read More
Pizza 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...
Read More
The Cruelty of Certain Mondays
Monday mornings after a long holiday weekend are especially cruel. Photo of Brenda Eyre’s struggling Newfoundlan...
Read More
Oasis’ “Supersonic” – About a Dog?
You think you know a song. Can you guess what Oasis’ hit, “Supersonic” was about after watching this...
Read More
The Peaceable Kingdom’s Tallest Monument
At one time, the tallest monument at Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Westchester County, NY (the first, and oldest operating p...
Read More
Azawakh Legs
Much of the Azawakh’s unique physical build is form following function: A deep chest, long legs, tiny tuck-up and rela...
Read More
The First European Dogs in the New World
Seen here is one of the fabulous entries in National Purebred Dog Day’s 2016 Fine Art Poster Competition, and now ...
Read More