Chinese Shar-Pei owners admire their breed’s independence and intelligence, devotion with a touch of obstinance, a...
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Education is key to protecting and preserving purebred dogs, and to that end, National Purebred Dog Day spends much of t...
Read MoreIt’s Borinqueneers Day!
The bluest ocean water you might ever see from an airplane is the water surrounding Puerto Rico, and specifically, at ni...
Read MoreAn “Only” Breed
There are so many singular aspects to the Dandie Dinmont Terrier’s story that it’s tempting to write of it a...
Read MoreOn The Tip of the Tongue
A dog’s tongue is a complex organ, and one of its most visible “landmarks” is the median groove, or me...
Read MoreIsrael’s Oketz
It’s not classified anymore, but for several years, Israel’s Oketz was an operational secret. Every sting op...
Read MoreStraight Out of Narnia
Heinrich Essig had created a loving, loyal, and big dog in the Leonberger, but when he died in 1889, he left his mortal ...
Read MoreThe BC’s Name
Have you ever wondered what the difference is between “Scotch” and “Scottish?” Merriam-Webste...
Read MoreThe Veiled Dog
The talent behind making stone look transparent is staggering to us, and to our delight, history has given us more than ...
Read MoreThe Dog of the Moor
In some dialects of Italy, the word “paratore” translates “to touch,” push forward” or ...
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong Here?
The Ibizan Hound AKC breed standard indicates that the Ibizan has an elegant, deer-like look. That doesn’t mean ...
Read MoreThe Ledbetter
A recent post introduced our series on the different bloodlines of Black Mouth Curs, lines developed by individual famil...
Read MoreThe Flying Whippet
The Rutland Railroad was located primarily in the state of Vermont and extended into New York at both its northernmost a...
Read MoreAkitainu Moku
There isn’t much the Akita can’t do, and this is apparent in its history in which it was used to hunt bear a...
Read MoreMeet the Murray
The last time we talked about “the Murray” on these pages, the breed was known as the Murray River Curly-Coa...
Read MoreTo the Jaundiced Eye
If people aren’t trained to really look at a dog, they generally take note only of the big things: Color, size, dr...
Read MoreThe Drent’s Brown Color
As an outsider, which is to say someone outside the breed, it’s hard to read about the history of the Drentsche Pa...
Read MoreWhat Artists Can Forget
We once read years ago that when a group of birds sit on a phone or electrical line, they all face the same direction. O...
Read More” A Scottish Terrier is the Best
The Old Scotch Terrier In the beginning of the 19th century, many different terriers could be found in Scotland, differe...
Read MoreThe Cunning Galego
The podencos of Spain are related in that they share a common trunk with other podencos of the Mediterranean area, and i...
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