The Yorkshire Terrier is the most popular toy breed in the United States based on AKC registration statistics for 2021, ranking thirteenth among two hundred recognized breeds. It was one of the first toy breeds (with the Pug) to be recognized by AKC, in 1885.
So often, when writing these pedigree dog histories, I can trace a breed’s origins back to the landed gentry or as pampered royal companions; however, this tiny toy dog has never been featured in the paintings of the Great Masters. He has never been the plaything of kings or (like so many other breeds) as far as I can tell, never been owned by Queen Victoria. His mummified remains have never been recovered from Egyptian tombs and his distinctive image is noticeably absent from Hieroglyphics.
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The longer a person is active in dog sports, the more likely it will be that they have accumulated a plentitude of “dog stuff” and a lot of it will be duplicates, triplicates and even greater “cates.” In fact, if you are the average “dog sport person,” paraphrasing King David’s words in Psalm 23, ‘your cup runneth over with dog stuff.’
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Researchers from the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine report what some dog breeders already suspected: hookworms are becoming resistant to drugs that formerly killed them.
A few months back AKC announced that it was rounding up its roster of breeds to a neat 200 (in a strictly technical accounting).We just got the Mudi and the Russian Toy. Wow! So, the Bracco Italiano now competes from the sacrosanct AKC Sporting Group.
A drive down the South Carolina coast on U.S. 17 will take you past Huntington Beach, and through Huntington Marsh and Huntington State Park—and past a larger-than-life statue of two fighting horses heralding the entrance to the largest sculpture garden in America: Brookgreen Gardens.
As part of my undergraduate requirements, I took a class in the theory of philosophy. The professor, a very intense academic, had several key sayings which he used in class with great frequency. If his purpose was to drill them in our subconscious, he was quite successful–at least, with me. There was one in particular which stays with me still. I recall it with great frequency: “If you do what you always do, you will get what you always got.” Think about it. I expect that was his intention, too. Think!
I aged out of juniors recently, and while I was showing I saw many other juniors ‘stuck’ rather than growing in our sport.