The Italian Pointer may have something in common with the Shiba Inu: In Japanese, “shiba” means brushwood a...
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Party Animals
When SONY set out to show the world its new Power Audio XB7 speaker, it recruited a few canine friends to help. The fini...
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The Loudmouth
By most accounts, the Beagle gets its name from the French word, beguele,” which means “open throat,” ...
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The Bee’s Knees
AFB, or American Foulbrood, is a highly contagious bacterial disease that infects honeybee broods and eventually kills t...
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The Pudelpointer
The dog may look like a German Wirehaired Pointer or Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, but the Pudelpointer is neither....
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The Borzoi’s Royal Connection
The Borzoi likely arrived in England as a gift from the Russian Czar to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. The Prince of Wales...
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Thank God it’s Friday!
“Gabby,” a slick coated German Wirehaired Pointer, shows us how a “Thank God It’s Friday” ...
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Border Collie Owners You Might Know
It’s well known that Queen Victoria had two working Border Collies which were kept at the Royal Kennels, and thatÂ...
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A Snippet of Border Collie History
Thank the Celts. Many Celtic clans in ancient Britain were pastoral, and a pastoral life included keeping sheep. To help...
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The Whippet Word
While debate continues about the true origins of the Greyhound’s name, at least one etymologist thinks he has the ...
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“Little Welsh Dragon”
He’s known as the “Little Welsh Dragon,” the insatiably curious little Welsh Terrier who can retrieve ...
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Ann Freud and “Wolf”
Sigmund Freud was a renowned dog lover, and while he’s most commonly associated with Chow Chows, the dog he bought...
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A Saint Bernard Meets the Pope
There’s an effort to declare the Great Saint Bernard Pass (a 49-mile route in the Western Alps) a Unesco World H...
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The Preternatural Akita
Once upon a time, a man visited the Land of the Dead. There, he found a village that was very much like his own, inhabit...
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“Jumping Jahosafat”
We’re always pleased to share follow-up pictures from May 1, National Purebred Dog Day®,  and that includes priz...
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Meet the Shiba with 2.4 Million Fans
Bear if you can, 1:21 minutes of a dog enduring what it takes to be an Instagram star. Oh, the humanity. [iframe id=R...
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Five. Whole. Days.
Ohhhh, the unbearable knowledge that it will be five full days until Friday. Sigh. Folks, if you’d like to see you...
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The Estrela Mountain Dog
We suppose the Estrela Mountain Dog could be traced to one particularly frisky sire or dam, but we’ll never know b...
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A Rare Austrian Breed
Timing is everything, they say, and it was not in the Austrian Pinscher’s favor. The breed was developed in the 19...
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Beauty, first Search and Rescue Dog
By all accounts, she was the first Search and Rescue dog, and her name was “Beauty.” She was a Wire Haired ...
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