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…
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Dalmatian Dog Breed Guide
Before Hollywood got involved, the Dalmatian had the strangest job in dogdom: running twenty miles a day beside horse-drawn coaches, guarding the…
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Cocker Spaniel Dog Breed Guide
For most of the twentieth century, the Cocker Spaniel was America’s favorite dog, twice over, and the reasons never went out of…
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Beagle Dog Breed Guide
Nobody stays mad at a Beagle for long, which is fortunate, because a Beagle will give you reasons to try. This is…
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Australian Shepherd Dog Breed Guide
The Australian Shepherd is American, developed on western ranches to work cattle and sheep from dawn to dusk, and the misnamed breed…
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Newfoundland Dog Breed Guide
Newfoundlands hauled fishing nets and pulled drowning sailors out of the North Atlantic, and the job left its mark: webbed feet, a…
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Saint Bernard Dog Breed Guide
Two centuries ago, Saint Bernards worked the snowfields of an Alpine pass, digging travelers out of avalanches for the monks of the…
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Mastiff Dog Breed Guide
The Mastiff is the heaviest dog in the world, an animal that regularly outweighs its owner and descends from war dogs Caesar…
