Bulldog (American) Dog Breed Guide
While its English cousin was being bred into a companion, the American Bulldog stayed in work clothes. Southern farmers kept the old…
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Brittany Dog Breed Guide
French farmers and poachers built the Brittany as an all-purpose bird dog that could point, retrieve, and fit in a modest household,…
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Shiba Inu Dog Breed Guide
The Shiba Inu is Japan’s oldest and smallest native breed, a mountain hunter refined over two thousand years into the fox-faced icon…
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Samoyed Dog Breed Guide
The Samoyed smile is not marketing. The upturned mouth corners are a real feature with a real job: they stop drool from…
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Basset Hound Dog Breed Guide
French monks bred the Basset Hound low to the ground on purpose: “bas” means low, and a hunter on foot could follow…
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Whippet Dog Breed Guide
A Whippet is two dogs in one elegant skin. For roughly forty-five seconds a day it is the fastest accelerating dog on…
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Vizsla Dog Breed Guide
Hungarian nobles bred the Vizsla for a thousand years to do two things with total commitment: hunt birds all day and sleep…
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Shetland Sheepdog Dog Breed Guide
On the windswept Shetland Islands, crofters needed a small, weather-proof herder that could work sheep, mind the children, and warn off anything…
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English Springer Spaniel Dog Breed Guide
The English Springer Spaniel is named for its job: springing game birds out of cover and into flight, a task it performs…
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English Bulldog Dog Breed Guide
The English Bulldog spent its first centuries in the appalling business of bull-baiting, and its last two being systematically re-engineered into one…
