Several years ago, newswire services picked up a couple of articles about conservation dogs able to detect whale scat on...
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Bassetted as a Verb
If you’re a geologist**, the word has a completely different meaning than it does if you’re a dog historian,...
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The Bee Gees Dogs
They were one of the world’s most successful musical groups, and one of the top five acts of all time. In the UK a...
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Eyes Into the Otherworld
Expression on a Tibetan Mastiff is noble, solemn, and watchful, so much so that it seems at times as if they are able to...
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A Swedish Lapphund Was the First
Having been founded in 1884 gave the AKC a five year head start on promoting purebred dogs, but the Svenska Kennelklubb...
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The Emotive Kromfohrländer
The Kromfohrländer, recognized internationally since 1955, owes its lovable temperament and character to its ancestors,...
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Meet Séamus!
The Irish Guards is one of the British Army’s Foot Guards regiments, and together with the Royal Irish Regiment, i...
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Dylan: Do the Dog
It comes to us all, a reminder that our generation, or the one just before it, is dwindling in numbers. It typically com...
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Be Small Stay Sound
The difficulty in evaluating a coated breed is obvious, and thus, hands on such a dog will “see” better than...
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Purebred Doggie Dates
Many of us first met the lovable Jack Russell cross, “Harvey,” in Thinkbox’s second TV commercial from...
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What the Russian Retriever Really Was
“Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.” – Charles Kuralt We have no hard eviden...
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Toto IS in Kansas
In the small northeast Kansas town of Wamego at the corner of 4th and Lincoln, a small dog made of bronze stares at a fi...
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To the Swiftest Does Not Belong the Prize
We turn to Ecclesiastes 9:11 (King James Version) to launch this post: “I returned, and saw under the sun, that th...
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Why Have an Instagram Account?
You know how we keep urging you to start an Instagram account for your dog? A while back, Tarynn Brown created such an ...
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A Pharaoh Fairy Tale
Veteran readers know how fond we are of legends and anecdotes associated with our glorious breeds, and the Pharaoh Hound...
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How a Romantic Song Lead to a Klutzy Cartoon Dog
Stay with us on this one. This is one of those tortured posts that takes you down the rabbit hole before you get to the ...
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The Azorean Cattle Dog
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Release some pigs, sheep and cattle on an island, and then leave for, ...
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Upland Gun Dogs: Which are the Best?
In the many posts we’ve written about gun dogs, we’ve frequently mentioned the word, “upland.” A...
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A Watcher By Any Translation
Mention the term, “night watchman” in relation to a breed, and more often than not, the Bullmastiff’s name...
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