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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Your Top Six Luxurious Breeds?
Quick! Before you read on, think about “luxurious” and “purebred dogs” in the same sentence; w...
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The Duke of Beaufort’s Hound
The Duke of Beaufort was annoyed. His hound had taken down a stag too quickly, and on the way back to Badminton Kennels,...
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The “Indian Doberman”
If you are baffled by the following sentence – “Sweet as a Rasgula, Spicy as a Hyderabadi Biryani” &...
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Location Location Location
It’s easy to see how the Danish-Swedish Farmdog got its name when one looks at a map of Scandinavia: There are onl...
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The Only Breed Standard to Use This Term
Of all British land Spaniels, the English Springer Spaniel is the highest on leg and raciest in build, but for this post...
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The Odate Dog
Among the seven breeds of Japanese dogs proclaimed as natural monuments is the Akita, but it was not always known by thi...
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Not Lost in Translation
Though the following video is from 2017, it has aged well, and you’ll want to turn your sound up before starting i...
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Spikkels and Schimmel
The Drentsche Partridge Dog is an old breed, one that probably originated in the 16th century from Spanish pointing dogs...
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The Moondog’s Many Names
As befitting the quirky nature of some of our posts (which hints at the torturous route we sometimes take to get to the ...
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A Clown in the Cloak of a Philosopher
“A Clown in the Cloak of a Philosopher.” Behind the serious expression of a French Bulldog is a canine comedian. She...
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By the Hole In Which It can Fit
By AKC standards, the Dachshund is bred and shown in two sizes, standard and miniature, the latter not a separate classi...
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