You won’t find this in the Pointer’s AKC breed standard, and more’s the pity in our view as we’r...
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Your Dog Just Ate Poison. What Do You Do?
One of our page friends mentioned earlier that her dog had dug up some rat poison, ingested it, and, well, you can imagi...
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The Modern, Humane, and Green Way to Catch Rats
The group, R.A.T.S., solves a rat problem while preserving working terrier breeds. We’ve talked about this here be...
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The Wire-Haired Vizsla
Many of us know a Vizsla when we see it, but fewer of us have ever gotten to see a Wire-Haired Vizsla, a dog that’...
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The Bracco Italiano
Some believe it to be Europe’s oldest pointer, and yet a mere 300-500 Bracco Italianos are in the entire United St...
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What’s the Breed In this Poem?
William Somervile wrote, ‘The Chace” in 1735, and it was the first detailed description of a particular bree...
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Save Our Breeds
Save the Smooth Fox Terrier. An interesting article at the link below underscores a point National Purebred Dog Day® of...
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The Diehard
Its nickname is the “Diehard,” so anointed by George, the fourth Earl of Dumbarton, who gave the breed its n...
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Finland’s Third Most Popular Breed
The Saami, a tribe of semi-nomadic people, in Lapland (the northern region of Finland, Sweden, and in part, Russia), emp...
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10 Things Only a Chihuahua Owner Would Understand
True, Chihuahua owners? 1. First and foremost, Chihuahuas think they own their people. Not the other way around. ...
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Max Mara & Wegman Weimaraners
In the climate of postwar Italy in 1951, Achille Maramotti opened a menswear business under the label of “Max Mara...
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US Patent US4233942
The next time someone makes fun of your dog’s snood, show them this picture. This was US Patent US4233942, the ...
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Jack Russell Terriers, Russell Terriers, and Parson Terriers, Oh My
Jack Russell Terriers, Russell Terriers, and Parson Terriers. Knowing which is which gets confusing, so we’re usin...
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Smooth Fox Terrier History
The earliest known picture of a Fox Terrier is believed to be of Colonel Thornton's dog, "Pitch." In retrospect, the aut...
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The Smooth Fox Terrier & the “Terrier Man”
During fox hunts, a Smooth Fox Terrier was often carried in a bag slung over the shoulder of the “terrier man,R...
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Three Men in a Boat (and a Fox Terrier)
“Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are,” wrote English writ...
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Dave, the Nurturing Rottweiler
It’s never a good idea to pigeon hole an entire breed based on pop culture reputation, some Internet list (like a ...
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Clement Freud and Henry, the Bloodhound
He was the grandson of psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, and the brother of artist, Lucian Freud. After his family fled to B...
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A Concubine, Eunichs and Shih Tzus, Oh My
There was a time when owning a Shih Tzu could make you dead. This was in old China, of course, when only royalty could p...
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