In London last week, the world’s first art exhibition for dogs, “Play More,” opened for a limited engagem...
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Everything Old is New Again
It’s a puzzlement to us that some of our oldest breeds are among the last to get recognized by major registries. I...
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The Inspiring Coonhound
We’ll never know how the offspring of a champion coonhound found such bad luck as to find his way to a railroad tr...
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Throatiness
Women of a certain age will lament over their necks and refer to it with disgust as a “neck wattle,” but dog...
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Beloved Dog
Someone you know just lost a heart dog. Someone you know just got a new puppy. Someone you know is considering a new bre...
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The “Black Blanketbacks”
If you admire the Treeing Walker Coonhound, you can thank a couple of Kentucky’s native sons. Human sons, that is....
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The Carolina Dog’s Season
Most domestic dog breeds have two estrus cycles a years, while wolves and a few “primitive” dog breeds hav...
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Lions and Tigers and the Kangal Dog, Oh My
According to legend, the Kangal Dog is the result of two different species. The breed, it’s said, was derived fro...
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The Hair of a Goat and the Wool of a Sheep
Not many breeds can be described as having the coat texture of two other species, but the lively Pyrenean Shepherd can. ...
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The Ad That Got Pulled Over a Jack Russell. Why?
It was one of National Purebred Dog Day’s favorite commercials featuring a dog, but one of Volkswagon’s most...
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Beagles 118, Verse 24
And then there are those “memes” that cry out to be shared. From The Beagle Wrangler ...
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Why This Breed Looks So Familiar
Most breeds “stand” on the shoulders of breeds that came before them, and some of these ancestors, while ra...
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The China Eye
If you have a dog who has one eye that’s clear blue, but flecked with a white or lighter blue, you have a dog that...
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Push Me Pull You
The sight of a dog pulling a cart is so unusual these days that we tend to treat it as a novelty. The “Newfoundlan...
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A Purebred Dog at Any Speed
As passengers in a car driving down a country road recently, we idly watched the landscape roll past our window. Modest ...
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The Mysterious Color
As coat color/patterns go, “seal” seems to be a mystery. It makes some black dogs appear brown, and some d...
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No Kakorrhaphiophobia Here*
And then there are those dogs who are up for anything, any time of day, any day of the week (even a Monday)… Photo...
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When We Can Relate to the Rich and Famous
Paris Hilton’s Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, packed a lot of living in her life, but while she was alive, her “punc...
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Three Minutes of the English Cocker Doing It All
Thanks to Elaine, a fan of purebred dogs, we’re able to share this fabulous video. Elaine “gets it,” a...
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