In as much as we’ve all known someone who qualified as an “old coot,” we’re guessing that few us...
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The Basenji’s Head
Heads matter, even for dogs that aren’t “head breeds.” The Basenji, we think, has a lovely headpiece c...
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In Kalamazoo
Let’s set the tone for this post with a bit of Glenn Miller. Scroll down: It was the Modernaires who sang in this ...
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The Bringer of Wealth
The government of China recognizes fifty-six official ethnic groups, and one of them is the Miao. The Miao are mountain ...
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The Red Setter
When Horace Lytle, a dog writer of good repute, opined in his Field & Stream magazine dog column in 1946 that if Iri...
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Another Word for Racy/Reedy
If you’re of a certain generation, you might remember this “flash from the past” (scroll down): It&#...
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Ads more Tolerable with a Bloodhound
Back in 2007, a research firm estimated that the average person saw up to 5,000 ads a day. Can you imagine what it is to...
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A Breed that was AKC Recognized – Twice
It might surprise some of you to learn that the first AKC registered Xoloitzcuintli, a dog named “Mee Too,” ...
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The Bulldog Smash
When we came across an adult beverage named the Bulldog Smash, it came with a challenge: Difficulty points awarded. We d...
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Edwin’s Bloodhounds, No Horses
Edwin Brough was a third generator silk manufacturer from Scalby Mills, a small village just outside the seaside town of...
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Mrs. Dodge and the English Cocker Spaniel
It would be accurate to say that Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge quite literally wrote the book on the English Cocker Spanie...
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The Beagle’s Civil War Connection
History needn’t be dry if one looks at it as the stories of real life people and what they did in their lives. Con...
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Plott Music
You might want to turn the volume down on the video that follows because if you have dogs in the house (and most of you ...
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Was the Aberdeen a Scottie?
Though the Aberdeen terrier is described by many sources as an early name for the Scottish Terrier, a few cynologists di...
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How the Bull Terrier Got His Spot
The now extinct White English Terrier, some say, was one of the first, if not the first, terrier breed developed primari...
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The Majestic
A name does not a pure breed make, nor does a registry created to service that particular dog. Over the years, we̵...
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Test Your Beagling Etiquette
You’ve been invited to go “Beagling” by the friend of a friend who knows someone, and you’re sup...
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
We recruited the talents of Sandy Mesmer to illustrate a point we wanted to make about the Berger Picard. Can you spot...
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The Sheep Poodle
It’s hard to picture in one’s mind the gritty task of herding sheep on dirt, dead grass and hay when an aris...
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An Afghan in Iceland
As a popular saying goes, “Iceland is green and Greenland is ice,” quite the opposite of what one would thin...
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