Being one of the smallest working terriers is the Australian Terrier’s main claim to fame. It is the national terrier of Australia. The breed originated in Tasmania and is a culmination of... Read more »
The Briard dog is among four French sheepdog breeds. The others are the Beauceron, Picardy, and Pyrenean. It is, however, the oldest of the four breeds. In fact, they have portrayed dogs... Read more »
Whippet dogs are medium-sized sighthounds that shares ancestry with the Greyhound. In fact, the Whippet’s predecessors may have come from crosses between small Greyhounds and even smaller dogs, which were used by... Read more »
Like most dogs, the Rhodesian Ridgeback has quite a history to tell. During the 16th and 17th centuries, European settlers began to arrive in South Africa and brought dogs such as the... Read more »
We pronounce the Coton de Tulear (co-TAWN day-too-LEE-are), and it means Cotton of Tulear in French. Cotton is referring to its white coat and Tulear coming from the seaport at the tip... Read more »
The Pekingese hails from China; in fact, some say that it owes its survival to the Lamaist form of Buddhism, in which the lion was a dignified symbol of Buddha, sometimes appearing... Read more »