“Go, Bulldogs!” It’s a rallying cry for more teams than we can count, but oh heck, let’s try. O...
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Löwchen Legends
We love a good breed legend, and one associated with the Löwchen is that if a knight died in battle, a lion was carved...
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A Versatile Breed
Versatility is a word we bandy about quite a bit here on National Purebred Dog Day®, and while we so admire the “...
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The Beaver Pom
To our knowledge, the Pomeranian may be the only breed which counts “beaver’ as one of its AKC acceptable co...
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The Making of a Name
We suspect that many of us are a bit fascinated by names, if for no other reason that we each have one, of course, an...
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Get a Terrier
Need a naughty dog to make a point? Get a terrier. Just saying (as former terrier owners). [iframe id=”https://www...
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The Carousel Dog
Dog collars are hugely collectable right now, but few us us have the discretionary incomes to purchase antique collars....
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The Pocket Beagle
Friends don’t let friends buy a dog without urging them to do their homework on the dog’s breed (or lack of)...
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The Incorrigible Wessex: WFT
He was a dog unimpressed by rank or social importance. His “victims” included novelist and playwright, Joh...
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The Wonder Dog in Shooting Circles
In his native Germany, he’s called the Kurzhaar (Shorthair), but in shooting circles, he’s often called the ...
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Oliver Hardy’s Chow Chow
It’s the rare Millennial who knows of Laurel and Hardy since few people born after 1983 will even watch a black an...
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Chukchi —–> Husky?
If you’re a Siberian Husky owner, it might interest you to know that the addition of the word, “husky”...
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Oil and Ore Sniffing Dogs
Dogs can smell certain types of cancer, bedbugs and termites, migraines, scat and whale poop, diabetes, DVDs, ovulatio...
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The $12,000 Samoyed
We love our dogs, they are priceless to us. Some dogs, however, come with a hard dollar value. We all heard about the re...
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Meh, Monday Morning
The reluctance to get off the bed, the nails digging into the bedding, the look of disbelief – yup. Signs all poin...
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Kel tal-Fenek
Kel tal-Fenek (Rabbit Hound) was the original name for this breed, the name Pharaoh Hound bestowed later by British fanc...
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The Doga World Record
In 2015, 265 dogs and their owners assembled to set a world record for the most number of people doing “doga”...
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The Akita: A Samurai’s Second Chance
The Samurai were powerful members of the military caste in feudal Japan. Their legendary code of honor, discipline and ...
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First Three Obedience Champions: What Breed?
Time now for a new clue about next week’s Purebred of Interest: This breed has been part of the breeding program f...
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It’s Still the Weekend!
For the “glass half full” kind of person, Sundays mean one more day of weekend. Photo by Tracy Sexton...
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