The U.S. military currently has about 2,800 active-duty dogs deployed around the world, with approximately 600 currentl...
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They Only Had One Job To Do…
But the Belgian Laekenois had three. She was expected to herd sheep at the Royal Castle of Laeken; she was expected to g...
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Monday’s Poem
I will hold my head up high And take the road less travelled Just me, myself, and I. And I will conquer it because I r...
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Winkie the Wonder Wire Fox Terrier
A warning: We would find Jeremy Irons reading a chemistry textbook great listening. It’s quite probably the Brit...
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Alexander the Great and Diogenes – as Dogs
As the story goes, when Alexander the Great visited the Greek philosopher, Diogenes at the wine barrel in which he live...
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The Dog from Jindo Island
Jindo Dogs are such an iconic part of the Korean national identity that they were marched out during the opening ceremon...
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Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark Bark
Old terrier men believed that no two terriers worked the same, and that real terrier men could identify a dog’s qu...
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“Hitalians”
It’s said that in some northern parts of the United Kingdom,Whippets are still called “hitalians, ”the local p...
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Aka: The Bohemian Terrier
The Cesky Terrier, officially recognized by the Federation Cynologique Internationale (FCI) in 1963, now numbers aroun...
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The Dapple Dachshund
If you have a dapple patterned Dachshund, it’s possible that the pattern is across your dog’s face, and tha...
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The Gentle Giant’s Fierce Past
This adorable baby will grow up to be a big boy. A very big boy. Bred for their tall stature, Irish Wolfhounds not only...
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And Today’s Topic of Conversation?
Seems about right. From the Facebook page, Things Dog Handlers Say....
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Most Dogs Per Capita City? It Might Surprise You
With one dog for every seventeen residents, Tel Aviv can boast being the city with the highest number of dogs per cap...
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Dog as Art Lover
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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