“Go, Bulldogs!” It’s a rallying cry for more teams than we can count, but oh heck, let’s try. O...
Read MoreLöwchen 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...
Read MoreA Versatile Breed
Versatility is a word we bandy about quite a bit here on National Purebred Dog Day®, and while we so admire the “...
Read MoreThe Beaver Pom
To our knowledge, the Pomeranian may be the only breed which counts “beaver’ as one of its AKC acceptable co...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreGet a Terrier
Need a naughty dog to make a point? Get a terrier. Just saying (as former terrier owners). [iframe id=”https://www...
Read MoreThe Carousel Dog
Dog collars are hugely collectable right now, but few us us have the discretionary incomes to purchase antique collars....
Read MoreThe 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)...
Read MoreThe Incorrigible Wessex: WFT
He was a dog unimpressed by rank or social importance. His “victims” included novelist and playwright, Joh...
Read MoreThe Wonder Dog in Shooting Circles
In his native Germany, he’s called the Kurzhaar (Shorthair), but in shooting circles, he’s often called the ...
Read MoreOliver 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...
Read MoreChukchi —–> Husky?
If you’re a Siberian Husky owner, it might interest you to know that the addition of the word, “husky”...
Read MoreOil and Ore Sniffing Dogs
Dogs can smell certain types of cancer, bedbugs and termites, migraines, scat and whale poop, diabetes, DVDs, ovulatio...
Read MoreThe $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...
Read MoreMeh, Monday Morning
The reluctance to get off the bed, the nails digging into the bedding, the look of disbelief – yup. Signs all poin...
Read MoreKel tal-Fenek
Kel tal-Fenek (Rabbit Hound) was the original name for this breed, the name Pharaoh Hound bestowed later by British fanc...
Read MoreThe Doga World Record
In 2015, 265 dogs and their owners assembled to set a world record for the most number of people doing “doga”...
Read MoreThe 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 ...
Read MoreFirst 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...
Read MoreIt’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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