“Crushing.” It’s not a word typically associated with anything good: Crush injury, crush in, crush on,...
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It Was Never One Breed With Two Types
Poles have been hunting with scent hounds since the 13th century, and in 14th century chronicles, it was noted that Poli...
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The Brave Little Pug
Karl Alexander was born in Stuttgart to Friedrich Karl and Eleanore Juliane in 1684. As the oldest son, he succeeded his...
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A Native Canarian
La Gomera is the second-smallest and third least populous of the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago. Marked by craggy...
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The “Water Dane”
“Great Danes are above tricks and resolute about the irrelevance of swimming to the life of an intelligent canine.” ...
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The Witchy Woman’s “Familiars”
It was a frequently asked question as she became increasingly famous: “Is Stevie Nicks a witch?” The rumor got s...
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The July Hound
On the first of July in 1858, a pair of tan colored puppies, a boy and a girl, arrived in a crate in Sparta, Georgia. Th...
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The Marvelous Malinois
In this post, we’ve gone a little “all over the place” because it’s hard not to gush about the B...
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The Granddaddy of All Pointers
For most of its considerable history, the Burgos Pointer (or Perdiguero de Burgos as it’s known in Spain) has hunt...
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Putting Words in a Dog’s Mouth
From the “Here’s Something You Don’t See Every Day” category is this immense Boston Terrier stat...
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Here’s to Scatia’s Best 0’ Dogs
The first poem we ever learned by heart was “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer. It was easy enough for a fourth grader ...
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Mini Bulls, WoooHooo
We confess to having a soft spot for Bull Terriers in both the standard and miniature sizes seen today, but did you know...
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Živjeli!**
Introducing a youngster (or an adult, for that matter) to the world of purebred dogs is to expose them to geography, l...
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Brain Dominance & Breed Preference
A caveat: This post may make the brains of scientific types explode. Certain cognitive processes are linked predominantl...
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But Is It Art?
President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, were confirmed animal lovers who were most happy at their California ranch ...
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Big ‘n Blue
The most amusing description we’ve heard given to the American Blue Gascon Hound is that the breed is like a “co...
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The American English Coonhound: Confused?
When the Black and Tan Coonhound was recognized by the AKC in 1945, we had 75 years to learn how to identify the breed,...
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Borzoi on a Beach
It’s hard to imagine Israel’s Caesarea beach looking any more beautiful than on the day that a team of Borzo...
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The Idaho Shag
As much as we love giving you information, sometimes we need information from you! The Idaho Shag (which sounds like a...
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To “Pretty Up the Place”
Like cell phones, it’s hard to imagine a time when most of us haven’t known someone who has, or did have, a ...
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