When God was modeling all the different dog breeds, he finally came to the Boxer. “And this dog,” he said, &...
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Great Georgetown Galgos
It’s one of the few books of fiction (let alone a children’s book) dealing with the Ibizan Hound. “Gre...
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Fell Terriers
Any study of terriers is likely to include an encounter with the term, “fell terrier.” Some sources insist t...
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The Monk’s Habit
“Monk’s Habit” is a pretty descriptive term used to describe the chestnut brown color found in the Spi...
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The Biewer Terrier
The Biewer Terrier has its fans and detractors, in large part because of a controversy over whether the Biewer is a com...
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Barking: In This Breed, a Prerequisite to a Champion Title
In Finland, barking competitions held each year crown a “King Barker,” and a Finnish Spitz (Finkie to her ...
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National Purebred Dog Day Gets to Congress!
National Purebred Dog Day wasn’t a “passing thing.” We meant business because our purebred dogs deser...
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BPM: Barks Per Minute – and the Winner Is…..
Though the title, “Barking Bird Dog of Finland” officially belongs to the Finnish Spitz, the Norrbottenspet...
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Slow As She Goes
We’re going to slowly ease into this Monday morning with a feel-good slide show from Fantastic Things in the World...
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Monday’s Moan
Monday morning? Say it isn’t so! “Delfina”and “Daphne,” two Coton de Tuléars, practicing...
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There Can Be Only One
Earlier, we picked through a breed standard to share some of what we might look at to determine a breed when its name is...
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Clues in a Breed Standard
If you’ve ever been part of writing or updating a breed standard, you know the amount of work that goes into the p...
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The Quilled Dog
It was an artful craft perfected by French and Italian nuns and monks during the Renaissance, and in the 1900’s, ...
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The English Bulldog – Almost a State Dog
The last dog to be designated a State Dog was the Alaskan Malamute, so named by the State of Alaska in 2010. As of thi...
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The First Imported Pinschers
Did you know that the first pinscher dogs imported into England and North America were the Wirehaired Pinscher (which we...
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They’re Not Just For Show
One of our best selling T-shirts proclaims: Purebred Dogs: They’re not Just For Show,” and indeed they are n...
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The Working Icie
The Icelandic Sheepdog, not just a pretty face, is actively used as a sheepdog in his homeland today. There are no histo...
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Are We There Yet?
It’s the weekend! What are we doing today, huh huh huh? Are we running, fetching, hunting Wooly Mammoths? Photo of...
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