Ears are important to all dogs. How else can they ignore their owner shrieking, “DROP IT!” from across a roo...
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“Invisible” in a Breed Standard
We as contemporary people can cringe at what passed for special effects in movies made over 75 years ago, but as with mo...
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How To Use Words
Those of us who own certain coated breeds with a curious and twisted bent often joke that while we’re sleeping at ...
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Entertainment: Which Breeds?
Which breed would you say has appeared the most often in movies and TV? Credited with 562 film and television appeara...
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What Would YOU Call This Gait?
Some of the posts we write – like this one – are “interactive.” This is to say that we encoura...
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The Red Boston
Potential new owners of a Boston Terrier who research the Internet may come across the “red Boston Terrier” ...
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Pet Passport Firsts
A pet passport is a document which enables pets to enter (or re-enter) the UK from EU countries, and some other listed c...
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The Dogo Standard. The Only One To Mention This
All dogs need a cheek muscle called the masseter to open and shut their jaws to eat, bite, and hold prey. Soft mouthed b...
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The Ladies Kennel Club (UK)
The Ladies Kennel Association in the UK is an all CC Championship dog show held in December of each year at the National...
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The Long Haired Dutch
The fabulous Dutch Shepherd comes in three coats: The short-hair, long-hair, and rough-hair, all of which have a woolly ...
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Zuyaqui, a Trafficker’s Nightmare
Did you know that there is an unofficial patron saint of drug traffickers? His name is Jesús Malverde, and in Mexico, h...
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Wild Irish Iggies
Somewhere in Ireland are one or more Italian Greyhounds described by their owners as little heathens: Over-excitable, pr...
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An Early Notion for a War Dog
In January, 1942, Japan appeared to be making headway in its territorial conquests during WWII, momentum that suggested ...
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Fr. Billard’s Saint-Usuge Spaniel
Intelligent, sweet, and easy-to-train, about the only flaw the Saint Usuge Spaniel has is that it is hard to find. Were ...
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The German Shepherd as Method Actor?
Performance art. It can generate every kind of reaction including eye rolls from people who’ve sat through a baffl...
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Dog: Rear Wheel Drive
If you’ve ever driven different types of vehicles in snow, you’ve experienced the difference between front w...
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Pencilled is Not Pencilling
Though the word “pencilled” appears in only one AKC breed standard, it’s a word we’ve come acros...
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Meet the Cretan
The oldest breed in the world: It may be a debate that is never definitively settled among cynologists possibly because ...
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A Stranger in It’s Own Land No More
Consistently hovering in the bottom quarter of AKC breed registrations is the Harrier, a breed with a long history datin...
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