When a dog has longer bones with more muscle strength in both her front and rear assembly relative to her body weight (a...
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The Carrot Tail
The term, “carrot tail,” can be found in most canine encyclopedias and dictionaries, and yet only one breed ...
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The Tibbie’s Clergy Connection
It surprises some people that so many of breeds have been touched by the influence of the clergy. To wit: During the m...
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Reverse Brindling
In any breed that includes the brindle marking pattern, such as Whippets, Cardigan Welsh Corgis, Plotts, Frenchies, Iri...
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The Fastest and Widest Ranging
Several breeds include the word, “braque” in their names, including the Braque Saint-Germain, Braque d’Auv...
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A Nuts and Bolts Spaniel
We like to say that in the world of purebred dogs, there is a dog for every reason. Some of us, as we grow a older and a...
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Looking Under that Coat
These “half-coated and half-naked” studies are brilliant. We love how they can teach us about a coated breed...
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The Hertha Pointer
Several breeds have been named after their creator, and names like Dobermann, Boykin, Gordon, Jack Russell, and Plott, a...
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The Pastern’s Slope
A dog’s pasterns correspond to our wrists, and as McDowell Lyon points out in The Dog in Action, a dog’s foo...
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The Manchester Terrier’s Name Game
We never miss an opportunity to throw in a bit of trivia if we can, especially if it involves music, and if you’re...
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A Number 10 Envelope
In profile, a Pekingese’s face is flat, but head on, the skull is wider than deep. There is a unique descriptive f...
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Eoneu Nala Mal-Eulhaseyo?
We are fans of languages, as are many other people. We tend to tend to pick up on accents and wonder to ourselves if we ...
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The Operatic Great Dane
We honestly don’t know how many of our readers appreciate opera, let alone opera from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s,...
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A Little Known Gem
President Teddy Roosevelt was known to have owned many dogs (and even had a breed named for him), and they included a Sa...
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Off to the Races
European-owned Afghan Hounds were once tried out on Greyhound racetracks, and results were mixed. Some of the dogs were ...
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A Foxhound’s “Riot” Act
“May we have the Hound Group please?” “Unleash the Hounds” Publicity hound… There are scor...
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Memorial Day: Remember the Fallen Canines, too
There is never a bad time to thank a serviceman or woman for their service, but it should be noted that on Memorial Day,...
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Saved, In Part, By a Vet
Sometimes we think our posts are too long, so we’ll make this one short and sweet. The Slovensky Cuvac (pronounced...
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The Saddleback in Redbones
When a Treeing Walker Coonhound has a black marking over his back that extends from the neck to the tail, it’s called ...
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Weird Al Yankovic “Poodle Hat”
Everything you need to know about “Weird Al Yankovic’s” music can be encapsulated in one of his famous...
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