Less than 2.5 minutes of a vizsla stalking a wolf. All of my hunting dogs have done this. Gem used to go ballistic over a small black iron doorstop in the shape of a cat silhouette we'd drive past on our way home from the vet. Queen Dog went insane over a kitty-cat cut-out in the vet's garden. My mother's shih-tzu would slo-mo stalk her own ( Read more... )

Okay, Canadians, remember, there is a re-run tonight! And probably in the U.S., also, I just don't have time to check. I still haven't reviewed the Terrier Group and Best In Show. All I have to say about that at this moment is that, natch, the Terrier Group is TOO DAMN BIG and needs to be split by height or something. I know the AKC and ( Read more... )

Working Group, here we go. There is some blur here with shepherding dogs (here, the dogs tend more to be "livestock guardians," in other words, killers), some sled dogs, draft dogs, fishermen's dogs, some rescuing & tracking, some big game hunting breeds (which should mean the Ridgeback is in here, but nooooooo), guard dogs, war dogs, and though ( Read more... )

Okay, y'all, it's Tuesday. Canadians, watch Animal Planet Live. U.S. residents, you want the U.S.A. network. Tonight's show from 8 to 11 Eastern will cover Sporting, Working and Terrier Groups, and finally, Best In Show ( Read more... )

This group is too damned big! It split off from the Working Group in 1983 and needs to be split again. Two new breeds: the Finnish Lapphund and the Entlebucher Mountain Dog. The pretty Icelandic Sheepdog was a new breed last year.

Australian Cattle Dog: They also come in blue, but he's red, and his call name is Brick, from California, ( Read more... )

Another breed new to the AKC this year: The Xolo, say it Sholowitz-QUINtly, are medium-sized hairless dogs (okay, 25% are coated). The black ones all look like Anubis, but they also come in blue, red, and spotted. "They were revered by the Aztecs as guardians of the dead," says the AKC announcer, and I expect Goths will run out and get the black ( Read more... )

HOUND GROUP: Eh, I don't care for anything beagle-ish. I like all three dachs, and so does the group judge. But she didn't pull two dogs I strongly favored, Capone the black Plott hound and Musafa, the fine Redbone. AHA!! She picked the wire-hard dachs! YES!!!! Of the three dachsies, I liked (her?) best. Cinders is (her?) name. The ( Read more... )

This young lab-something named Sam is perhaps the baddest of bad dogs; or maybe only the most tangled, without naughty intent. And surely he didn't tear the shade down himself. Sorry about the extremely brief ad which leads the video:

If you are looking for the authoritative recap of the Seamus story but you can't get through the Boston Globe's firewall, here it is; I got the free URL via the author's site ( Read more... )

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