If there is any negative connotations about black dogs, history hasn’t helped. Superstition aside, “black do...
Read MoreBlack Dog Folklore
In another post, we wrote of the belief that a certain apprehension about black colored dogs leads to lower adoption ra...
Read MoreA Black Dog Makes the Top 500
In 1971, a resident black Labrador Retriever would wander around a recording studio where a band was recording. Thoug...
Read MoreHappy National Black Dog Day
Today is National Black Dog Day, another creation by Colleen Paige, founder of National Dog Day, National Cat Day, and ...
Read MoreToy Poodles and 1943
1943 was a big year for the Toy Poodle. Up until that year, the AKC registered them as a separate breed, but in 1943, t...
Read MoreSchutzhund! Gesundheit!
Perhaps someone proudly mentioned that their dog was a “Schutzhund (fill in the breed),” or you saw the word...
Read MoreNot Your Mom’s Ceramics
The ceramics created by Ostinelli & Priest in the United Kingdom won’t fall into the “cute” catego...
Read MoreThe Jeju Dog
As breeds go, this one is quite old and is believed to have been introduced to Cheju Island in the Korean Strait some 5,...
Read MoreA Snippet of Irish Setter History
The Irish Setter’s precise ancestry is often the subject of debate: Some sources theorize that crosses of Irish Wa...
Read MoreThe Whiskey Dogs
One of the world’s most recognized whisky brands, Buchanan’s Blended Scotch Whiskey, started in the 1890s wh...
Read MoreA Resuscitated Breed
The Irish Wolfhound has sometimes been referred to as a “resuscitated” breed. What does that mean? To ...
Read MoreWho Named the Landseer?
Next Saturday, October 1, is National Black Dog Day, and posts on that day will focus on white breeds (just testing to s...
Read MoreSchnupp and Bisart
The foundations of the Doberman Pinscher were two dogs: A fellow named, “Schnupp” (described as clever and f...
Read MoreThe Mash-Up Breed
It would be tactless to suggest that the Brussels Griffon is a “mash up” of other breeds, but this enchanti...
Read MoreHeidi’s $20,000 Bladder
When it comes to breeds that have lived in the White House, the Weimaraner may have been a “one off.” The ...
Read MoreVern Yip’s Dogs
You’ve got to love an interior designer/author who not only loves dogs, but takes his Great Pyrenees along to book...
Read MoreWhen Pop Culture “Pops” Breed Popularity
When a big screen movie or television commercial featuring a specific breed becomes wildly popular, it can make fanciers...
Read MoreThe Only Recessive Hairless Breed
The Peruvian Inca Orchid Dog, Xoloitzcuintle, American Hairless Terrier and Chinese Crested Hairless are the four hair...
Read MoreIt’s All Good Until Midnight
Yeah, they’re happy now. Wait ’til they find out that tomorrow is Monday. Photo of “The Puffinsquad...
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