Grass seeds are no joke. Many are dangerous for dogs (and even cats) in that they can easily penetrate outer skin throug...
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Darkness Falls Across the Land…
“Darkness falls across the land… The midnight hour is close at hand.. Creatures crawl in search of blood… ...
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Full Circle in the PWD
History is simply the story of people. What they did, when they did it, and why. The Portuguese Water Dog’s histor...
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What is Going On?!
The very first line of the Löwchen’s AKC breed standard reads, “A small, bright, and lively dog.” The...
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Husky Lite*
The last time we wrote about the Alaskan Klee-Kai, the breed wasn’t eligible for an AKC conformation ring, but w...
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“Couch Potato” of the Terrier World
His breed standard mentions the word, “strong” six times. “Powerful” shows up five times. In fac...
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From the Neck Up
Scroll down and take a good look at the neck and head of the brindle Greyhound below. What do you notice? Maybe the phot...
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In Griff Time
On the face of it, the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon would seem to share little with the Danish-Swedish Farmdog, but what ...
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By Hook or by Crook
When the word, “hook” appears in a breed standard, without exception, it has to do with a tail. In some br...
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What a Butterfly on the Nose Isn’t…
Few images are as captivating as when a butterfly lands on the nose of a dog, but for the fanciers of certain Japanese d...
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That Black Saddle
The only American hound without British ancestry is the Plott Hound, and with thirteen acceptable colors and four markin...
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The Little Things
As they say, “it’s the little things” that matter. For a poorly bred dog, the “devil is in the d...
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The Famous Stink Eye
Some of us who have had our breeds for a while can take for granted a trait we assume other breeds share. Au Contraire, ...
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The Tod-Hunter
We came across the term, “tod-hunter” as a name once applied to a beloved terrier breed. Dictionaries altern...
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Before Spain, Where?
An old airport joke says that whether you go to heaven or hell, you’ll have to change planes in Atlanta. Not that ...
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Gwell Angau Na Cywilydd
“Game, not quarrelsome.” Some non-doggie readers may not fully understand what “gameness” is in ...
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The Fatal Attraction
A breed standard not only spells out the ideal type and conformation of a breed, it often includes behavior in line with...
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A Pigment of My Imagination
News flash: Old English Sheepdogs do, in fact, have eyes. Sheepish grin (ha, a pun). Our apologies to OES folks. As long...
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The Bench Legged Feist
The slang term, “cankles” (a combination of the words ankle and calf) describes legs in which there is littl...
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“Nobles” in the Basset Hound’s History
We like to treat our dogs like the aristocrats they think they are, but some breeds really do have a history of noble ow...
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