If pressed to identify the breed name associated with the nickname, “water sprite,” we daresay that most wou...
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1000 Dog Portraits: From the People Who Love Them
“You know, there are only so many ways to draw a Beagle.” Oh really? In 2011, Robynne Raye, Modern Dog founder, got ...
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The Skye Terrier, Puck, & the National Dog Show
Skye Terriers were created on one of Scotland’s Inner Hebrides islands (the Isle of Skye) to rid farms of earth dw...
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The “4-wheel Drive” of Hunting Dogs
The breed earned its nickname, “the 4-wheel drive of hunting dogs” because these dogs will plow into briars ...
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The “Poker Game”
“Poker Game” is one of a series of sixteen paintings painted by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge known collective...
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The Maremma: A Bandicoot’s Best Hope
Bandicoots are small marsupials found across Australia, some eleven known species in all. They’ve been damaged by ...
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Know the”Lamb Cut”
In Poodles, the clip known as the “lamb cut” sees the dog’s face, tail, and feet shaved, but its topkn...
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One of the Best Cancer-Detecting Breeds
Attached to a wheel in the center of a floor are twelve small cups that contain blood samples. Only one contains the blo...
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The Pohjanpystykorva
They didn’t know what they had. For centuries, these dogs were the only valid currency in Finland. Over time, they...
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Name This Breed!
The dog whose picture we challenged you to identify in the title is a hunting dog native to France created by Baron Jose...
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Golden Flat Coats
Did you know that Goldens were registered and shown as “Golden Flat Coats” until 1913? The name by which t...
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The Malamute’s Impact
National Purebred Dog Day®‘s “tag line” is “celebrating the heritage, diversity and predictabil...
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Sacagawea and “Seaman”
A bronze statue of a Newfoundland and Native American woman appears at the Cascade Locks Historical Museum in Marine Par...
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Food, the Bonding Experience
Though the main character is a Boston Terrier, the filmmaker, we think, sees into the soul of most of our breeds with th...
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Why We Celebrate a Breed Like the Alaskan Malamute
When nomadic cultures of the far north quite literally harnessed dogs we know today as the Alaskan Malamute, it had a ...
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Who Were Fidget, Jewel, Lucky,Patch,Pepper, Rolly, Spot and Wizzer?
Fidget, Jewel,Lucky,Patch,Pepper, Rolly, Spot and Wizzer were some of the 101 Dalmatians, of course! As an aside, many ...
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The Mayflower Dogs
Thanksgiving in America has its origins with the Pilgrims who left Plymouth, England in July of 1620 in pursuit of relig...
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The Andrex Labrador Retriever Pups
When Kimberly Clark, the company behind the Andrex bathroom tissue brand, announced in 2010 that it would be using a com...
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Saved from a Torpedoed Ship
One of the last imported dogs of this breed was reportedly rescued from a ship that had been torpedoed by a German U-boa...
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Nearly the Last Sussex Spaniel
One of the last imported Sussex Spaniel was reportedly rescued from a ship that had been torpedoed by a German U-boat ...
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