Tails. If you show your dogs, your breed dictates whether you want that tail up, down, or whether your dog has a tail at...
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The Breed with the $15,000 Nose
Earlier in 2016,  a 4.16 pound white truffle sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $61,250. It was a bargain price.  ...
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Winter is Coming
Winter is coming. Isn’t it time to start knitting warm things? Image found on Pinterest and we’d dearly like...
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Size Matters
While some believe that the American standard allows for a tolerance of a greater range than anywhere else, the AKC stan...
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Little Caesar’s Bulldogs
When done tastefully, fairly, and with a sense of humor, we never tire of seeing purebred dogs used in TV commercials. ...
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American Coursing Hounds
Breeds can have a terms unto themselves, and the sports we enjoy with our dogs can have a vocabulary all their own, as...
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A Snippet of Pointer History
Pointers likely came into use in Spain, Portugal, throughout Eastern Europe and the British Isles around the same time, ...
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Sick of Politics? A Political Party We Could Live With
In 1963, the voting age in England was 21, and this didn’t sit well with what some saw as hypocritical. “Imm...
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Hypnagogic* Saturday
On some Saturdays, some dogs prefer to sleep in. Photo by Gail Bauman *Hypnagogic: Pertaining to sleep...
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A Few Greyhound ‘Toids*
They’re known as 45 mph couch potatoes, but there are a few other interesting aspects to the fabulous Greyhound th...
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The Nekkid Gene
Despite its reputation as a hairless breed, coated examples do exist in the Peruvian Inca Orchid Dog, and they’re ...
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The Rules of Japanese Chin Beauty
According to one Asian authority opining on the breed when it was called the Japanese Spaniel,  the breed should have ...
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Bark Like a Pug and Kiss its Behind
Would you join a club that required you to wear a dog collar and scratch at a door like a dog to gain entry to a room? Â...
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Is a Sporting Breed Part of Your Life?
Set • Point • Flush • Retrieve Sporting breed owners, a university study found that sporting dog owners are tempe...
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Beverly Hillbilly’s “Duke”
If you’re of a certain age, or a fan of TV from the 1960s, you’ll know The Beverly Hillbillies. The show was...
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The Three Finger Rule
Not long ago, we explained, “inside baseball” (knowledge specific to a topic that people outside the topic ...
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The “Poor Man’s Greyhound”
Poor, working class men in the early 20th century textile industry of Northern England didn’t have fancy oval trac...
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A PAC YOU Might Want to Support
Who really owns our dogs? How do we fight against increasingly rogue animal control and rescue operations that hold our ...
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Your Choice Affects Your Dog’s Choice
We love the “user friendly” aspect to Lili Chin posters, and also, of course, that her “helper” ...
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The German Shepherd Who Was The Littlest Hobo
When Chicago White Sox pitcher, Chuck Eisenmann, was recovering from an arm injury in 1946, he got a German Shepherd p...
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