The talent behind making stone look transparent is staggering to us, and to our delight, history has given us more than ...
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The Dog of the Moor
In some dialects of Italy, the word “paratore” translates “to touch,” push forward” or ...
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What’s Wrong Here?
The Ibizan Hound AKC breed standard indicates that the Ibizan has an elegant, deer-like look. That doesn’t mean ...
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The Ledbetter
A recent post introduced our series on the different bloodlines of Black Mouth Curs, lines developed by individual famil...
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The Flying Whippet
The Rutland Railroad was located primarily in the state of Vermont and extended into New York at both its northernmost a...
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Akitainu 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...
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Meet the Murray
The last time we talked about “the Murray” on these pages, the breed was known as the Murray River Curly-Coa...
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To 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...
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The 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...
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What 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...
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” 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...
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The 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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The “Black Mouth of The South”
Look! Up in the tree! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…… Not Superman. A caped man flying a...
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The Aussie: What Part Homesteading?
The year 1862 was a significant one for the Australian Shepherd, though no one knew it at the time, and likely wouldn...
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What the Breeder Drove in 1954
Of the cars named for dog breeds, only two merited the description of “versatile,” and the Hillman Husky was...
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The Bone Eater’s Baby
Once upon a time, there was an animal goddess named Sako. She had a white head. She could fly. She could glide. Oh, and ...
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Are Whippets Bad for You?
“Detroit recently launched a Whippet Wipe-Out campaign after a man jumped a river bridge as it was opening while i...
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It’s the Attitude…
The tallest breed in the AKC’s terrier group is, of course, the Airedale Terrier, and some believe this is why the...
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The Pigeon Chest
Dogs being dogs, they like to chase and leap at pigeons. Short of retrieving one that’s been shot for the night...
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A Bulldog in the Wrong Hands
We like to share pretty much anything that has the name of a purebred dog, and so far, those things have been vehicles, ...
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