By now, long time readers of NPDD know that there’s a name for everything, and we love sharing them (the more esot...
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The Nootka Sound Dog
On the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest is an area known historically as King George’...
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American Bandstand’s Dogs
“It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.” A younger generation won’t have a clue what this...
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Fleshy, Lean, and Cheeky
Much of the time, the term “fleshy” is used to describe a dog’s paws or ears, but when used to explain...
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Smile With a Purpose
An exercise: Depending upon how you’re seeing this (are you on a phone, iPad or computer?), cover the mouth of the...
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The Pug/National Anthem Connection
No one likes their purebred dog misidentified as a “designer breed,” or mutt, but this sometimes happens to ...
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The Blenheim Color
Up until Charles II, toy spaniels were black and tan, but we know that other colors did come along, and this is the tale...
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A Schnauzer Named Schnauzer
There’s a bit of irony in the fact that when the Standard Schnauzer was first exhibited in 1879, it was as the ...
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The Bark Sentinel
Why the word “apso” appears as part of the Lhasa Apso’s name is less clear than why “Lhasa” does. ...
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The “Twisted Tail”
We will save for another time a discussion about the Tazy, a purely Kazakh sighthound bred in the part of the former Sov...
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The Kangaroo Hound
Perform a Duck Duck Go search for “kangaroo hound,” and you’re likely to encounter disturbing images o...
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When “Improved” Isn’t Always Better
Until 1830, all Saint Bernards were short-coated. What happened in 1830? Leading up to that year, the Great St Bernard P...
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Look, But Don’t Touch?
And then there are those posts we share that come from one source alone, and while seemingly a reliable one, we can̵...
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A Breed That Changes His Tune
You would be forgiven for pronouncing the Billy’s name as you would an American boy’s name: Billy—>...
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Pharaoh Hound: Two Breeds, One Name
In Maltese, “rabbit dog” is written as “Kalb Tal-Fenek,” but “Maltese Hound” is the name by ...
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Scout’s Honor/the Bohemian Shepherd
With a membership of 67,959 boys and girls, Junák is the largest educational organization in the Czech Republic, and t...
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Matador Breeding
We think it’s called “going down a rabbit hole:” Researching one topic only to get sidetracked by a te...
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The Breed Standard With a Warning
Have you ever looked at a word and thought it said something else, something that made you chuckle? At first glance, we ...
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The Icie’s Mysterious Name
On the way to researching the Iceland Sheepdog’s name, we learned a few interesting things about Icelandic names f...
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The Hesitant Flush
As hunting dogs, Boykin Spaniels work with far less “hoopla” than some other spaniels. S/he will quarter a f...
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