Showing posts with label Specific terrier breeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Specific terrier breeds. Show all posts
Sunday, May 22, 2022

True Terriers

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Art by Kevin Brockbank for the December 2011 edition of Dogs Today magazine . U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was not much for hidin...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

When Did Your Breed Show Up at Westminster?

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American Kennel Club registrations have declined 75 percent over the last 30 years, even as the population of the U.S. has increased a...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

The Missing Part of a Cairn Terrier

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I like Cairn Terriers. When my brother called me to ask what kind of terrier he should get as a pet for himself and his three children...
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Monday, October 23, 2017

What's Wrong With Working Dogs as Pets?

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A commercial breeder of Jack Russell terriers for pet buyers writes to ask a question. She says she is very sincere about breeding fo...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

The Cesky Terrier: Another Failed Breed

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The Cesky terrier was created by a   Czechoslovakian dog breeder with an experise in the genetics of inherited coat colors and types....
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

No Tolerance for Diversity

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T he American Kennel Club has very little tolerance for diversity. The goal of conformation , after all is to conform . And so, if we...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

A Wrench that Doesn't Fit

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Dog histories are always an interesting thing , as are breed standards and the all-breed dog books. I have found that all of these th...
Friday, February 07, 2014

Making and Breaking Dogs In the Show Ring

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The story of Kennel Club dogs is pretty much the same from one breed to the next: A relatively small numbers of dogs are brought int...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

How Much Is That Jack Russell in the Window?

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I've happily plundered the web site of Embrace Pet Insurance in the past to write about the true cost of Golden Retrievers , Germa...
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Kill It With Fire

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Hat tip to Heather Houlahan for finding this one. Best comment so far: "It's harvest time at the Donald Trump toupee orchard....
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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Hog Dogs and Bear Dogs

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Chad R. writes from Texas where he is using Jagd Terriers to bust pig from thick brush.  I was struck by how much the picture, above, is r...
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Monday, December 05, 2011

American Dollar Dog

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The caption on the back of this photo , according to the web site where I found it , says: A cabinet card by G.W. Brown from Cheyenne, Wy...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Rare as a Tiger and as Useless as a Shih Tzu

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The last man to dig with a Kennel Club Sealyham was Jocelyn Lucas in the 1930s. The Daily Mail has a piece on the Sealyham Terrier : ...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

A Dandie Dinmont?

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Yale University is making high-resolution images from its cultural collections available on a free, open access basis, and they've sta...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Dogs as Breed Products

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The Ford Edsel - a marketing disaster. This idea that every failed breed needs to be preserved despite lack of function, and despite...
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