It wouldn’t be the first time that one breed got supplanted or absorbed by a close relative, that’s why toda...
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Big Name for an Old Breed
Were it a dog’s name, it wouldn’t meet today’s AKC limit of 36 characters, but it was the early name o...
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“Spitz dog of the West Goths”
Most anyone with a middle name knew they were in trouble as kids when their parent called for them using every middle na...
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RIP, John Madden, Purebred Dog Owner
In 1969 when he was thirty-two years old, he became the NFL’s youngest head coach. He also became the youngest coa...
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Sweet Home Alabama’s “Bryant”
When a dog appears on the cover of a DVD, you might assume that the dog factors into the plot of that movie. With Sweet ...
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Artistic License?
Most of us would be hard pressed to identify the creature in the image as a dog, let alone what breed of dog, but in 184...
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Too Much Scottie
Over the years, we sometimes cover the same topic more than once, usually because we’ve come across more (or diffe...
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Malamute Ears
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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