The “ear action” of a dog moving his or her ears around as if they’re picking up a satellite signal is...
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“Every Breath You Take”
A tune to get us in the mood: ...
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Ground/Ramp/Table
The terms, “table breed” and “ramp breed” are self apparent terms in the world of dog shows: &nb...
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Only Breed Standard With This Word
When one investigates which felines are regarded as “big cats,” the jaguar appears on the list along with th...
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Full Circle for the Appenzeller
When the first International dog show was held in Winterthur in the Swiss canton of Zurich in 1898, eight of the dogs th...
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Mistaken Identity
It is the fortunate owner who has fallen in love with a breed never mistaken for something else, but others aren’t...
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Sharing the Song of Their People
Like our readers, we are endlessly curious about our dog breeds, and that makes us perpetual students. It’s prob...
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Your Mileage May Vary
The American Kennel Club recognizes 202 dog breeds at the time of this writing, and to be honest, it’s a little su...
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The Brazilian Alarm System
The history of dog breeds is replete with examples of different breeds that work together toward a common goal. In Tibet...
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When Black isn’t Black
It is Boxing Day* in some parts of the world as we write, but for some people, every day is “Boxer Day.” A n...
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The Missing Word
If you check various Doberman Pinscher breed standards from across the world, you’ll notice that something is mi...
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The “Real” Santa Claus
You would be forgiven for never having heard of Haddon Sundblom, but we guarantee that you know his work. Haddon was bor...
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The “People Rescuer”
Field marshal Bernard Montgomery probably didn’t know this about his name, and Irish playwright and essayist Georg...
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Spots Matter
We might be crediting the wrong person for this quote (which we paraphrase), but we believe it was Anne Rogers Clark, th...
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Not a Poodle • Not a Pointer
As Puli owners, we are well acquainted with the perception that we have a mixed breed: “Poodle and, um, Collie?...
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The Wirehaired Vizsla: Hungarian 101
Jolie was Hungarian-born, a little girl who grew up wanting to be an actress. She went to a Swiss finishing school, but ...
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A Different Bohemian Rhapsody
Sorry, not sorry. To get to the doggie portion of this post, you’re going to have to go through the Bohemian Rhaps...
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The “Real” Caucasian Ovcharka?
Georgians. Lovely people, but with a nod of affection to our friends in the southern United States, the Georgians in thi...
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