Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks; When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-on...
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Horák’s Other (Unfortunate) Breed
In dog circles, František Horák is known as the “father” of the Cesky Terrier, a breed he created expressl...
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The AWS and Marker #282
We pass them by all the time without notice, unless, of course, we’re looking for them. We’re talking about ...
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The Breed Shaped by the Fells
Millions of years ago after nature battered parts of England with lava-spewing volcanic activity, an ice age followed, a...
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The Philosopher’s Dog
Do you believe that there is an objective, intellectually understandable spiritual world accessible to human experience,...
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Credit the Poodles
Before the mid 1930s, dog shows didn’t include Obedience events because they didn’t exist. Thanks to a Poodl...
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The Comeback Cor*
Many hearts fell in 2009 when The Kennel Club in the UK placed the Pembroke Welsh Corgi first on its “at-watchR...
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The Grand’s Ears
It is no easy thing to catch a Grand Basset Griffon Vendéen relaxing. These happy, goofy and independent dogs are eithe...
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She Was the First To Do This
Eleanor Roosevelt, Pat Nixon, Rosalynn Carter, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Michelle Obama, Betty Ford, Barbara Bus...
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Hunting the Clean Boot
Learning terms that are unique to breeds that are not our own is one of the joys of the diversity of purebred dogs. One ...
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The Round-Headed Bull and Terrier
This is one of those posts that invites comments from breed historians because for now, our theory for the Boston Terrie...
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Buccleuch Labs
A certain amount of reading on a breed will inevitably expose the reader to names used as adjectives when referring to t...
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The Lo-Sze
Hundreds of years ago in ancient China, a dog existed called the Lo-sze. We know from a dictionary of Chinese characters...
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Doing What They Do
Scroll down for your midday cute moment, and to see what Golden Retrievers do what they do best even at the age of five ...
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The Tang Dog
We came across a statement that got us curious: “Both Chow Chow and Shar-Pei belongs to the family of Tang dogs in...
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The “Rounded” English Foxhound Ear
And then there are those people on whom you'd like to perform a Vulcan Mind Meld, they know so much!...
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Dalmatic (note the dog)
From the annals of “We don’t know if this is true, but here it is,” comes one theory for how the Dalma...
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“Tail like an Iron Wire”
If the first thing we notice about a dog is his face and head, the next thing is probably his tail; it provides us a clu...
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Why the Shar-Pei has his Wrinkles
According to legend, the Shar-Pei’s purple tongue and wrinkled skin gave ghosts “the willies.” Indee...
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A Bullmastiff Mascot
Premier League fans in the UK, and in particular, ...
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