Only one star from the original film, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, went on to appear in the TV series, and that was &#...
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White Bird: The LGD That’s Probably Not Right For You
The Akbash Dog is probably not for you. We’ll explain shortly. This breed calls western Turkey its “home....
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Thurber’s Dog
Years ago, we knew a wonderful Old English Sheepdog named, “Thurber.” It turns out that “ThurberR...
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Would You? Could You?
Would you clone your “heart dog?’ Laura Jacques did. When Laura’s eight year old Boxer was diagnosed...
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La Petite Venerie or La Grande Venerie
It’s said that France, known for its development of scent hounds, created more of these breeds than any other coun...
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The Potential of a Friday Frog
When Erin ‘Port’ Chien’s Doberman saw frog, it illustrated the “feel-good-potential” of a ...
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White Feet, Don’t Treat? Not so Fast
We use this opportunity to pass along a really important message to all dog owners, but in particular, certain breeds th...
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Dogs 101 View of the Australian Shepherd
Australian Shepherd owners, did Animal Planet’s Dogs 101 get it right about your breed? [iframe id=”https://...
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A Who’s Who of Aussie Owners
Which famous people have discovered the joys of Aussie ownership? In this day and age, you’d have to start with ...
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A Snippet of Australian Shepherd History
The Australian Shepherd – or Aussie – isn’t Australian at all. The breed took a circuitous route to Am...
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The Power of an Ad
A commercial that will make you a little sad before it makes you happy. [iframe id=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/...
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The Quirinal Dog
Do you Volpino? The verb we just made up refers to what some call the Italian equivalent to the German Pomeranian. Ma...
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The Mountain Feist
Before the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln wrote of the Mountain Feist in his poem, “The Bear Hunt,” See if you c...
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Coyotes Howling? Think Again.
Coyotes? No, Basenji specialty. Evidently, no Basenji specialty would be complete without this occurrence. Appare...
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The Majorca Mastiff
We hate reporting that a breed with which most of us are unfamiliar is already in the grips of high volume puppy farms,...
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A Hunt Point Retriever
The Weimaraner has been described as such a dynamo in the field when trained that less experienced hunters may find t...
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Two Firsts By the Chessie
It’s possible that the first real description of a working retriever doing his job also contained the first writte...
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The Man Who Hears the “Music” In A Breed Standard
We who admire a well-put-together dog see the music in their movement. Spain’s Rafael Malo Alcrudo hears the melod...
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Monday Morning Stink Eye
Cindy Wright Bingley’s Doberman Pinscher gives the “stink eye,” that reflects how most of us feel abou...
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The Corso Head
The head of the Cane Corso is arguably its most important feature. It is large, square, impressive, and in our view, c...
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