It can take years to learn how to evaluate a dog, and most of us start out by learning the nuances of our own breed. U...
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Spain’s Andalusian Hound
A question from a reader about their “Andaluc Mastiff” prompted us to investigate the breed, but we never fo...
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The Bracco’s Zygomatic Arches. Huh?
It won’t be long before the Bracco Italiano, currently in the AKC’s Foundation Stock Service, is fully accep...
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A Resemblance, We Think
The military has a vocabulary all its own:Â All those the ribbons found on the breast of a military uniform? It’s...
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The Dog Belonging To E=mc²
E=mc2 is probably the most famous equation in the world because it changed the way we thought about energy. The mass of ...
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The Great Pyr as Ref
Livestock Guardian Dogs are entrusted to protect their stock and flock from predators, but as you see in the video below...
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When the Russian Setter was a Griffon
The first Wirehaired Pointing Griffon arrived in the United States in 1887 as the Korthals Griffon, and with its arrival...
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One of Austria’s Grand Brackes
Whenever we come across a new breed (new to us), there are times when the name seems “made up.” The Hangin...
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The Fox and the Hound
Scroll down to see a scene from the popular movie, “Wayne’s World,” that helps us set the stage ↓ â†...
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Knowing the Noggin
If you’re a casual dog person who doesn’t fully understand breed standards, and don’t really want to, ...
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The Brittany’s “Now You See it, Now You Don’t”
The Brittany is the only gun dog native to France, and there’s something pretty interesting about this breed (beyo...
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My Little Dog Saved Your Bigger Dog
Scroll down for a musical launch to this post: Another version of the ad, this one from 1973, was set at a dog show: Ken...
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Why Ace Wore a Mask
Ace, the Bat-Hound, is well known to comic book aficionados, but for everyone else, it should be known that Ace wasnR...
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The Dreaded Dachie-Wolver-Boar
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But First, a Limerick
There once was an Old Man of Kamschatka Who possessed a remarkably fat cur; His gait and his waddle Were held as a model...
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Play Ball! The Brown-Tiger-Club
You’re to be forgiven if you think that the Brown-Tiger-Club is a baseball or football organization. Would it ma...
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Rolling Off
We sometimes take for granted the things that connect us to the earth until those things shriek for attention. Losing tr...
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That Line Has a Name
There is an interesting line in the German Shorthaired Pointer’s AKC breed standard (interesting to us, anyway). I...
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The Lazy S
Large, powerful, and unexpectedly fast, the Anatolian Shepherd is a hard-working breed used as a Livestock Guardian Dog....
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Tweed: The Fabric and the Breed
We hazard a guess that most of you reading have had, or currently have, a garment made of tweed. The rough fabric was or...
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