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Striking blue merle Alapaha blue-blood
This is a native Georgia bulldog, a better mascot for a football team than the English monstrosity.
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Pug with a muzzle!
From Dog Book. Ignore the cartoon of the “heart on the nose.” (I lack this cuteness gene). This is a pug with a decent mug!
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True words about pugs
“People talk about birth defects from inbreeding, but just being a pug is a birth defect.” –Steve Jones, professor of genetics at University College London.
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Boxer history according to Edwin Megargee
Image courtesy of Nara U. From Megargee work in 1953. I’ve heard two histories of the boxer dog. One of them is just as Megargee describes it– a dog like a dogue de Bordeaux that was bred down into a...
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Inbreeding in American bullies
Source. I don’t know what it is, but in pit bulls and their derivatives, inbreeding is celebrated. An American bully is an offshoot of the pit bull, which has been specifically bred to be less...
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The Smithfield family
This morning, the two intruding “Smithfields” came charging out with their father, a clipped Old English sheepdog.
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Outcross program to save the Norwegian lundehund announced
The Norwegian lundehund is one of the most inbred dog breeds in the closed registry system, and I have questioned the wisdom of including this breed into a dog population management culture that...
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Why there will never be a brachycephalic retriever
You have to have a muzzle to hold things!
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Konrad Lorenz’s Krokodil
Today, there much talk about a flesh-eating drug called “Krokodil,” which is derived from the Russian* word for crocodile. There is quite a bit of paranoia about the drug spreading to the US, but it...
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The bulldog: What is to be done?
What I am about to suggest is something rather extreme. I wouldn’t have deliberately plagiarized Lenin in the title if I were to write something somewhat milquetoast and banal. But right now, there is...
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What a Pekingese ought to be
A nice little dog with a brain, a muzzle, and a good temperament: Source.
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Shiba inus kill baby in Columbus
From the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch: A baby girl was killed by the family dogs yesterday morning while her father slept on the couch in their West Side condo, Columbus police said. Mia Gibson, who would...
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The golden dog is an aidi
This dog is a Moroccan aidi, a livestock guardian dog. The photo was taken by Franziska Könnecke, when visited there in September.
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The past 100 years have not been kind to the pekingese in the West
Ti Ti, a pekingese painted by Maud Earl in 1913. And here are photos of the winner of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show in 2012, Ch. Palacegarden Malachy: The great “breed improvement” contests...
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Little Freddy
From Pietoro’s Historical Dog photobucket. An English toy spaniel. The British use a different term for this breed, but it’s the more exaggerated ancestor of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. In the...
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Why buy a Labradoodle when you can have a Skye terrier?
I am not fan of journalism by press release. It’s not really “journalism” anyway. It is simply media relations, and media relations might as well be called spin. Spin is not really about the truth....
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A truly sound specimen– a testament to modern scientific dog breeding!
A Korean dosa. Left without comment.
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Very effed up Peruvian shar-peis
Nara U. sent me this photo today. I hope you are not eating when you look at this photo: This dog was bred by a Peruvian dog breeder (or more likely, a Peruvian dog dealer) named “Sharpei Juliuss,”...
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