The dog world is filled with myths, legends and anecdotes, and what follows is an unverified urban tale we came across w...
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The Cow-Herder Dog of Flanders
Dr. Aldolphe Reul of the Curegheun Veterinary School of Brussels was the first person to bring attention to the Bouvier ...
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The Genius’ “General”
He was born to “Mary Ann” on a poverty-stricken backstreet in New Orleans called Jane Alley. Dad had vanishe...
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Improvement in Consistency
Among the things that some writers get wrong when opining that breeders have ruined breeds from what they once were (and...
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The Boss Boston
From 1900 until 1950, the AKC registered more Boston Terriers than any other breed. In fact, not only was the Boston Ter...
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A Breed Nearly Lost Forever
One of the oldest and most primitive dog breeds in the world is the Formosan Mountain Dog, also known as the Taiwan Dog....
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The Volcano Hairless Breeds
Nicaraguans have a rich mythological culture that has given rise to the creation of Dantesque tales and folktales, and o...
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The Public Bullmastiff as Art
If you live in Philadelphia and happens to wander into Reliance Triangle in Fairmount Park at Fairmount Ave and 25th St...
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The “Taneous” Head (but not this one)
The Irish terrier is the raciest member of the terrier group with a longer body and longer legs than the other terri...
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Hoist the Flag and Salute
At the risk of stating the obvious, what passes for common knowledge about our respective breeds may be actually pretty ...
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Amazing Blondel
As musical niches go, we think you’d be hard pressed to find one more narrowly defined than “pseudo-Elizabet...
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The Rodney Dangerfield of Purebreds
Scroll down to see the briefest of videos that sets the theme for this post: If there was ever a Rodney Dangerfield in t...
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Nip n’ Duck
Back in the day, dogs were generally described by their job, and as herding breed owners know, a “heeler” re...
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A Paracrine Signaling Molecule
Agouti is one of the oldest and most common color genes in mammals. It can be found in deer, rodents and rabbits, and on...
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The Yard Dog: A Different Interpretation
Back in the day, a “yard dog” was your basic, all-around farm dog that did everything from guard the hen hou...
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The GSD By Any Other Name….
The German Shepherd has been known by some different names, and most of us know already that one of them was “Alsa...
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The Farmer’s Dog
The mountain dogs of Switzerland were indispensable to farmers for centuries, and even their name bore this out: Sennenh...
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Golden Retriever, or Something Else?
You wouldn’t be the first person to look at the photograph of this dog and make the snap judgement that it’s...
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The First German Boxers
Hunting wild boar is dangerous business, and in the United States, there are currently 17 wildlife management areas that...
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The “Large Dog from Tibet”
In 1800, a cadet and English Asiatic traveller with the East India Company, Captain Samuel Turner, mentioned the use of ...
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