Schnoodle Dog Breed Guide
Cross a Miniature Schnauzer with a Poodle and you get the Schnoodle, the doodle family’s best-kept secret: a small, whip-smart, nearly non-shedding…
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Cockapoo Dog Breed Guide
Decades before “doodle” was a word, the Cockapoo was already the original poodle cross, quietly perfected since the 1960s: Cocker Spaniel sweetness,…
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Goldendoodle Dog Breed Guide
Cross a Golden Retriever with a Poodle and you get, in theory, the perfect family dog with the smart coat: friendly, clever,…
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Labradoodle Dog Breed Guide
The Labradoodle started as a workplace experiment: in 1989, Australian breeder Wally Conron crossed a Labrador with a Standard Poodle to produce…
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Poodle (Miniature) Dog Breed Guide
The Miniature Poodle is the Standard Poodle’s brain installed in an apartment-sized chassis, and for most of the twentieth century it was…
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Bichon Frise Dog Breed Guide
The Bichon Frise has held three jobs in seven centuries: sailors’ trade dog, court companion to Renaissance royalty, and circus performer when…
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Yorkshire Terrier Dog Breed Guide
Before the Yorkshire Terrier was a handbag icon, it was shop-floor equipment: a ratter working the textile mills of northern England, bred…
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Shih Tzu Dog Breed Guide
The Shih Tzu was bred inside the Forbidden City for one imperial purpose: to sit near an emperor and be magnificent. The…
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Miniature Schnauzer Dog Breed Guide
German farmers wanted a compact ratter with the nerve of a terrier and the sense to live peacefully with the family, so…
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Maltese Dog Breed Guide
Aristocrats of the ancient Mediterranean carried Maltese dogs in their sleeves, and the breed has spent the two thousand years since refining…
