This handmade Beagle teapot by Christy Crews Dunn is thrown with two pounds of clay so it can hold, when completely f...
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Magic Meets Origami
Ruth Van Beek, a queen of abstract art, has taken a fascination with dogs and folding paper to create images in which th...
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The Stand Alone Breeds
Just when we think we know the origin of dogs, a new study comes along to cast doubt on it. Debate remains as to whethe...
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The Hairless Gene
The Powderpuff Chinese Crested, the smallest of the hairless breeds, has a genetically recessive variant for coat that c...
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The CAS – or Ovcharka
And then you have those dogs who protect anything they think is their property. It could be their flock, their land, the...
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The Terrier Once Classified with Sporting Dogs
Until the late 20th century, Wire Fox Terriers and Smooth Fox Terriers were considered two types of the same breed. They...
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Black Dog as a Metaphor
If there is any negative connotations about black dogs, history hasn’t helped. Superstition aside, “black do...
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Black Dog Folklore
In another post, we wrote of the belief that a certain apprehension about black colored dogs leads to lower adoption ra...
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A 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...
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Happy National Black Dog Day
Today is National Black Dog Day, another creation by Colleen Paige, founder of National Dog Day, National Cat Day, and ...
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Toy 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...
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Schutzhund! Gesundheit!
Perhaps someone proudly mentioned that their dog was a “Schutzhund (fill in the breed),” or you saw the word...
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Not Your Mom’s Ceramics
The ceramics created by Ostinelli & Priest in the United Kingdom won’t fall into the “cute” catego...
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The 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,...
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A 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...
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The Whiskey Dogs
One of the world’s most recognized whisky brands, Buchanan’s Blended Scotch Whiskey, started in the 1890s wh...
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A Resuscitated Breed
The Irish Wolfhound has sometimes been referred to as a “resuscitated” breed. What does that mean? To ...
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Who 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...
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