Canine Genetic Diversity Testing – It’s a New World

“Breeders need to start getting into the modern world—and DNA is the modern world. It’s like moving from a rotary dial phone to an iPhone.”

“Breeders need to start getting into the modern world—and DNA is the modern world. It’s like moving from a rotary dial phone to an iPhone.”

Dogs come in many different sizes, from the towering Irish Wolfhound all the way down to the diminutive Chihuahua. Construction, weight and natural balance all differ.

Click here to read the complete article 114 – October, 2016 By Amy Fernandez The Poodle fancy has gone the distance getting their message out. Hair is not the main story. Poodles have proven their supremacy in official and non-regulation dog sports and countless extracurricular activities. Despite that ongoing showcase of remarkable talents, somehow it [...]

One surely knows when Fall has arrived here in the USA, especially when it’s a year that holds a Presi- dential election.

According to mainstream media, a debatable informational source at best, the purebred dog world is failing on all fronts, traveling down that fateful highway to keep company with the dinosaurs.

If I were creating a list of dog breeds one might consider to be “ladies” dogs – or more popular with women, great with kids and families – surprisingly quite a few breeds on my list today would be the same ones appearing in Dr. William Gordon-Stables’ 1879 classic Ladies’ Dogs as Companions: A Chatty Pleasant Book with Many Stories Humorous & Pathetic Painted From Life.

Just in case you have not heard the news, September is National Preparedness Month! This year marks the 13th annual National Preparedness Month spon- sored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Setters were the breed of my childhood. At ten years old, I acquired my first show quality dog. Listening and learning everything my mentors had to share, their recommendations were followed without hesitation.

Breed histories are routinely embellished and occa- sionally fabricated to enhance marketing appeal. Of course, for the Pekingese, the truth was more than sufficient to make the world sit up and take notice from the moment those first specimens arrived in England in 1860.