According to some sportsmen, such breedings produced a lot of dandy gun dogs, but others regarded these mating with a s...
Read MoreTell the Bees
The belief that bees must immediately be told about significant events in their "household," occasions such as a death, ...
Read MoreWho We Know About Red
Palmerston, Young Phil, Frisco - influential dogs that we know about over 130 years later thanks to people who cared eno...
Read MoreHow One Golden Made the Lockdown Better
Looking for distractions during the lock-downs, many people found the talented artist online through the "Covid videos" ...
Read MoreDo These Bones Make Me Look Fat?
While the Basset was considered an ideal hunter for the older hunter, this is still a working breed. Bassets were design...
Read MoreThe Greyhound “Smiler”
To a person unfamiliar with the Greyhound breed, being the recipient of a Greyhound grin can be unsettling...
Read MoreWhat the Standard is Not…
It was news to us. Perhaps it is because we've been "in" dogs long enough to have "absorbed" that the awareness of what ...
Read MoreStand By Your Pom
Every year until her death, she renewed that license noting that "she could always go back to hairdressing" if her other...
Read MoreEarrings and Rings, Oh My
There is no accounting for personal preferences even when a breed standard permits an aspect of a dog....
Read MoreWhen an “Apple Noggin” Isn’t Okay
There is no one reason as to "why" such a head is a fault or undesired in all but one AKC breed (as of this post), but...
Read MoreThe “Posterior Postic”
We've heard Borzoi-owning acquaintances call it a "butt wig," and a "tush toupee," and one highly educated owner we knew...
Read MoreWhat It Isn’t
A casual encounter with dog owner in a shoe store turned into a mind-numbing conversation about what, exactly, a purebre...
Read MoreHard and Springy
It's a good texture for a breed created to hunt prey....
Read MoreTake Me Home….
Before mentioning the dogs they owned, we like to touch upon a famous person's life. It would probably surprise no one, ...
Read MoreGermany’s Youngest Breed
You might not have known (or cared) about this region, or about how farm land was tilled there. You might not even recog...
Read MoreWhen is a Mack Truck also a Ferrari?
This shouldn't surprise anyone who has read the breed standard. The second sentence reads, "Bred to combine the power of...
Read MoreWhat You Might Not Know About this Toxicity
There are darn good reasons to discourage a dog from eating "sheep sheeze," and two of them rhyme with 'parasites' and '...
Read MoreAn Ancient Breed You May Never Have Heard Of
Historically, these dogs graced royal banquets with their presence, and were so favored by royalty that they were verita...
Read MoreFrom Covered Bridges to the Great Dane
Just saying). When the Speaker of the House called for the voice vote to designate the Great Dane as such, oral votes ca...
Read MoreA Snippet of Buhund History
Hurry up and wait is the experience of many breeds on the road to recognition.......
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