The Playing Card Project: Your Dog as the King, Joker, etc.
…Queen, Jack, and two Jokers. Number cards from 2 to 10 are $50 each. Cards are sold on a first-come-first-served basis on our Facebook page and will be considered “sold”…
…Queen, Jack, and two Jokers. Number cards from 2 to 10 are $50 each. Cards are sold on a first-come-first-served basis on our Facebook page and will be considered “sold”…
…that could be traded. Sadly, and if sources are accurate, these days Xiasi dogs are bred to fight wild boars in competition, an activity that started around the 1960s when…
…workers who inspect every bush, and when a bird is located, a Clumber will get in closer and freeze long enough for the hunter to notice and reach for the…
…Victoria, and that it wasn’t just any old Greyhound, but an accurate rendering of “Eos,” her husband’s beloved pet. Victoria had commissioned the sculpture as a present for Prince Albert’s…
…or two heated comments left under the video uploaded on You Tube in 2009, and though Google Translate isn’t the most accurate of translating sites, we got the gist of…
On Wednesday, October 12, 2019, the 15th Annual AKC World Hunt & Show commences in Williamstown, Kentucky, a very special event in which one overall hunt winner will be declared…
…Picts may also have been the earliest documented link to tattooing in Europe since it was common for both sexes to be heavily tattooed). Many historians believe that their involvement…
Speaking with tongue-in-cheek, a dog’s withers provide a convenient (and accurate) place to measure their height. This is important to know when entering competitive sports in which hurdles are involved,…
…William O’Brian, around 1870. We may never know with certainty which story is accurate, we’re just glad that the world has Boston Terriers in it! “Copacabana” by Brian Rubenacker https://www.etsy.com/shop/rubenacker…
La Fête Nationale, or French National Day, occurs on July 14th and is often thought of as France’s Independence Day. It commemorates the day in 1789 when 80,000 people amassed…
…of a giant lumberjack so tall, it took a normal sized person a full day to walk the distance between his footprints. Paul Bunyan and his companion, Babe, the Blue…
In the photos below, what do you notice is common to all of them? Photo by Chandre D’Oliveira/Pexels Greyhound by erikzunec Spanish Greyhound © Emptsik | Dreamstime.com…
…but it lasted several years, and from 1820 to 1836, no fewer than 40,278 dogs” were detected and destroyed by French Customs.” Image: Black Standard Poodle by Eve Holoran/verybestdog www.etsy.com/shop/verybestdog…
…be held back by that darn leash, it’s apparent that dog is confident, and in his own eyes, “all that.” And we agree. Image: Paul Doyle with permission https://www.facebook.com/PaulDoyleArt …
…attractive blue color that occasionally showed up in some litters. At this point, we bring in George Washington. Yes, that George Washington. It’s common “dog knowledge” that he’d been given…
The slang term, “cankles” (a combination of the words ankle and calf) describes legs in which there is little definition between a person’s lower calf and ankle. This may be…
…To be accurate, the Great Pyrenees appears to be more massive than he really is because of the volume of coat, but the breed standard, if we’re being honest, is…
A common refrain in the history of many of our old breeds is: “Lost in the mists of time.” For people who are keen to learn more about the early…
As much as many of us loved watching Mel Gibson portray William Wallace in the movie, “Braveheart” (Mel Gibson in a kilt. Just saying) the historical aspect wasn’t entirely accurate….
Unlike other large working breeds, the Leonberger was developed first and foremost to be a companion dog, and that makes the breed unique in the AKC working group. The Leonberger…