As a rule, you can tell a dog’s actual color by his or her nose. Genetically speaking, black dogs have black noses...
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Move Like an Afghan
“Type” is an important word in dogdom, and we’ve discussed it a fair amount on these pages. In terms o...
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The Fox Red or Ruby Labrador Retriever
Color is a hot button topic in many breeds, and the Labrador Retriever can be one of them. Let us be clear from the onse...
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Red Dirt Girl
One of the longest concerts we ever attended was at the now defunct Rainbow Concert Music Hall in Denver. In 1999, the p...
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The Gull Dong
Many of the breeds originating in South Asia are gone, and in India, over 50% of the known native dog breeds are complet...
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How To Enter NPDD’s 2022 Photo Contest
You’ve taken a photo for one of National Purebred Dog Day’s challenges for the 2022 Photo Contest, and you w...
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Does Your Weim “Nook?”
The fabulous Weimaraner is an interesting breed! In addition to the light patch of hair found on the heads of some Weims...
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Home Schooling the Kids….
Shepherds, farmers, and ranchers will tell you that puppies learn by watching the behaviors of experienced dogs. By obse...
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Hot Air Balloon Dogs
History doesn’t tell us much about the first dog in an American hot air balloon flight other than that he or she w...
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Calling the Dog
It’s a different way of looking at it. Some breeds are named after the person who developed it: The Saint Bernard ...
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The Shih Tzu & The Four Beauties
Her beauty was said to be so dazzling that when she leaned over to look at koi in a pond, fish forgot to swim and sank b...
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A Chien de Grande Venerie
Few breeds today closely resemble the dogs from which they descended. Selection, whether man-made or natural, shaped man...
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How the Border Collie Does That
We’ve all seen it. The eye a Border Collie gives sheep when he or she is working them. The breed is famous for tha...
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Something Different About Opha May
When Opha May Johnson died on August 11, 1955, her funeral services were delayed two days until August 13, 1955 so that ...
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Actor, Vigneron, and Staffie Owner
He made his acting debut in a TV film called The City of No, but the first time we saw Sam Neill was in the chilling psy...
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Dogs from the “Doggie People” Range
When we come across dog art we think is special, we feel compelled to share it with you. Matt Buckley of Edge Sculptures...
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Korea’s “Ghost Dog”
The shaggy haired Sapsaree is one of four dog breeds native to that country (the others being the Korean Jindo Dog, Kor...
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March Madness Mascots 2021
A couple of years ago, we knew someone who was cajoled into participating in a March Madness Fantasy League. She knew no...
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The HMS Beagle
When twenty-two year old Charles Darwin set off on a five-year trip to South America and beyond, it was as a naturalist....
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Consent to Be Bred By a King
It would be a mistake to assume that the dog in this image is a shepherd mix. The Bohemian Shepherd, also known as the C...
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