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Expert Advice: Dog Breeds
Best Rottweiler Names For Your Confident And Loyal Puppy
Rottweilers are as loyal and loving as they are protective and confident. The working dog has been a long-loved breed that dates back to the times of the Roman Empire. And while they have played various roles over the course of history, today they make a fun-loving companion for families across the country. The breed is […]
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| May 5, 2022
Sports & Events
Junior Report: Maximillian Thompson
My name is Maximillian Thompson. I’m currently seventeen years old and am from northeastern Minnesota. I started training for Rally, Agility, and Junior Showmanship back in late 2014, when I got my first dog, an energetic field Golden Retriever named Stella. She was one and a half at the time. Her family had given her […]
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| May 5, 2022
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Expert Advice: Dog Breeds
Silky Terrier History: The Sweet & Feisty Australian Ratting Dog
When a pup’s age is still counted in weeks, he’d be lucky to get much farther than the front door. But in 1954, a 6-week-old black and tan pup from the sub urbs of Sydney made a 7,500-mile journey on Qantas Empire Airways to his new home in La Crescenta, California. His name was Sir […]
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| April 20, 2022
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Expert Advice: Dog Breeds
Harrier History: The Hunting Hound Between Beagle and Foxhound
The covert’s utmost bound Slyly she skirts; behind them cautious she creeps, And in that very track, so lately stain’d By all the steaming crowd, seems to pursue The foe she flies. -William Somerville, The Chace, 1735 William Somerville’s lyrical description of a hare sneaking around behind a pursuing pack of hounds and tracking them […]
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| April 20, 2022
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Expert Advice: Lifestyle
Rehoming a Dog Responsibly: What to Know
When we bring a dog into our family, most of us imagine that we will have that dog for the rest of the dog's life. While this is the ideal, it isn't always the reality. If your life circumstances change and you're no longer able to care for your dog, there are ethical ways to […]
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| April 19, 2022
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Expert Advice: Breed History
Pharaoh Hound History: The Dog That Hunts Rabbits With Ferrets
The history of dogs might be very different without the people of Phoenicia. These seafaring traders sailed the Mediterranean from what is today Lebanon 2,500 years ago, During their trip, they did business in luxury items. As they went, it's assumed that the Phoenicians disseminated Egyptian hounds throughout the ancient world. The prevailing theory suggests […]
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| April 6, 2022
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Expert Advice: Breed History
Schipperke History: The “Little Captain” of Belgian Dockyards
The bubonic plague, or Black Death, was unleashed in 1348 by the humble rat flea. The plague decimated the people of Europe and before the connection was made between the plague and rats, half of all Europeans — by some estimates 40 or 50 million — suffered an unspeakably gruesome death. In the wake of […]
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| March 28, 2022
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Expert Advice: Breed History
Shih Tzu History: How the Royal Tibetan Dog Was Saved From Extinction
Although its precise origins are unknown, the Shih Tzu is undoubtedly descended from lion-like Tibetan holy dogs and have existed for centuries.
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| March 23, 2022
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Expert Advice: Dog Breeds
Collie History: From Queen Victoria to Lassie & Beyond
In 2014, DreamWorks Animation announced that it was putting Lassie on the comeback trail, but not in the way you might think. “We realized that Lassie has an authenticity that makes her a merchandising holy grail,” DreamWorks executive Michael Francis crowed to The New York Times. Francis (the man behind Target’s fabulously successful Bull Terrier […]
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| March 21, 2022
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Expert Advice: Breed History
Samoyed History: Arctic Working Sled Dogs
January 1952: The luxury passenger train City of San Francisco labored through deep snows and the winds of a fierce blizzard in the Sierra Mountains. With a final clatter, the train ground to a halt, snowbound with 226 passengers onboard—trapped in the infamous Donner Pass. Desperate to clear the tracks, Southern Pacific tried everything— and […]
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| March 7, 2022