You would be forgiven for being unfamiliar with the Russian Harlequin Hound. The dog found almost exclusively inside of ...
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Bull Terrier: Oink Oink
A curious thing happens to breed standards over time. Some get shorter, some get longer, some have old words substitut...
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Thunder and Fracture
“Thunder” and “Fracture” seem to us to be perfect names for a terrier, and as it happens, both w...
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All You Need is Love
On a Sunday in June in 1967, the largest television audience up to that date – some 700 million people from 24 c...
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What Wm. Rauch Did For Dog Shows
When William Rauch died in 1930, his passing was reported in the New York Times. The short piece said that he was 68 yea...
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The FSS and One of its Breeds
In April of 2011, the AKC had sixty breeds in its Foundation Stock Service (FSS) program, but in the last eleven years...
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What is a Working Standard?
Most people – and certainly readers of NPDD – know that every breed accepted by a kennel club like the AKC h...
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You Might Have These In Your Closet
In 1905, Charles Beckman and fourteen other local business investors organized the Red Wing Shoe Company based in Red Wi...
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The First Glimpse of Two Collie Varieties
It’s hard to consider that something could be revived over 250 years ago when from our 21st century eyes, it seems...
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Mystery Solved
As owners of the breed, we were always puzzled by references to the Puli as having once been called the Hungarian Water ...
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You May Not Know This Meaning of “Entered”
In a competitive arena, one participates by “entering” whatever it is they hope will win a prize or placemen...
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From Godzilla to Portuguese Water Dog
The first time many of us saw Raymond Burr, he played the American reporter in the movie, Godzilla, in 1954. Other aud...
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The “Rare Color” That SHOULD Be
Did you know that genetically speaking, brindle is the rarest color in the Pug? And did you know that it should be? ...
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You Do What with your Dachshund?
The forest floor was blanketed with crisp dead leaves that gave away every footstep of the dog and the falconer. Their b...
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Sitting High and Mighty
We pulled a few lines about the Tibetan Spaniel from different sources on the Internet: The Tibbie likes to sit up high ...
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Biocolli: Future Flocks
By now, veteran readers of NPDD know that a Bergamasco is not a corded breed, it is flocked. Flocks are the large, ir...
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Can You Dig It?
Unless it’s a flower bed in our yard, or our dog in someone else’s flower bed, we don’t think much abo...
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Mean Seeds Season
Grass seeds are no joke. Many are dangerous for dogs (and even cats) in that they can easily penetrate outer skin throug...
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Darkness Falls Across the Land…
“Darkness falls across the land… The midnight hour is close at hand.. Creatures crawl in search of blood… ...
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Full Circle in the PWD
History is simply the story of people. What they did, when they did it, and why. The Portuguese Water Dog’s histor...
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