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• Stripduke "on the Move" videos by Henny

  
  StripDuke Weblog — Authority: 140
  Afghan Hound Whippet Showing all what you can get being built like a sprinter!! Irish Wolfhound A great moving dog in two videos, one head held up to high. And here shown on a loose leash Galgo Moderated in angles...
  2 days ago

• An Australian Labrador sniffer dog returns after being MIA in Afghanistan for 14 months

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  After being lost in battle, Sabi survived 14 months on her own in Afghanistan. From the BBC. Sabi is listed as a Labrador, but she’s very likely a cross– but one that looks a lot like a St. John’s water dog. In September 2008, the dog was part of a joint Afghan-Australian patrol in the Uruzgan Province. ...
  3 days ago

• Dog Lost In Desert For A Year Found

  
  Dogster for the Love of Dog Blog — Authority: 434
  I received a few woofs about this happy story.  A bomb training Australian Labrador, Sabi, went missing a year ago in the Afghan desert during the heat of battle.  A few days ago she was   found by an American serviceman and now Sabi is back home on an Australian base at Tarin Kowt. Here are the details from The ...
  4 days ago

• Another Veterans Day

  
  Reflections From a Murky Pond — Authority: 423
  It’s once again Veterans Day, the 11th day of the 11th month of the year. Originally it was called Armistice Day because 11:00, November 11, 1918 marked the end of World War I, which people optimistically called “The War To End All Wars.” It is a day when Americans specifically remember and honor the best of ...
  4 days ago

• Police Dog Bites Wrong Man

  
  Dogster for the Love of Dog Blog — Authority: 434
  In Eugene, OR a man was fighting off an intruder to defend his family when the police showed up, complete with K9. Unfortunately, the police dog mistook the homeowner for the intruder and bit him. He bit him hard enough to send him to the hospital overnight. Here are the details from The Daily News. The ...
  6 days ago

• Senator Al Franken meets a service dog

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  Source. Senator Franken recently added this legislation to the Defense Authorization bill , which passed at the end of last month. It would provide a service dog  to around 200 veterans. That service dog appears to be a Democrat (Democratic-Farmer-Labor in Minnesota). Or Franken just ate something very tasty and ...
  1 week ago

• From Rescue Dog To Police Dog

  
  Dogster for the Love of Dog Blog — Authority: 434
  A 16-month-old black Labrador was rescued from a shelter by the local police department. Instead of going to an expensive breeder the Chicago Police Department decided to give a rescue dog a chance at life and a new career. The dog, Pantera, is now working in the organized crime division. Here are the details from ...
  1 week ago

• Two theories about the origin of the St. John’s water dog that I can’t accept

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  There are two often postulated theories about the origin of the St. John’s water dog, and I just don’t think it’s probable. 1. Richard Wolters believed they were derived from the black St. Hubert hound. He claims that the St. Hubert hounds were used to retrieve from a from Turberville that says the St. Hubert ...
  1 week ago

• 10 week-old standard poodle retrieving a duck

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  Source . The logic behind having a young puppy work ducks is that they are still in their critical period for socialization and may not have yet developed a distaste for an oily bird.
  2 weeks ago

• Very Sad News

  
  ( Abby K-9 ) — Authority: 99
  Its with great sadness that I have to report that Joe White, the driving force behind creating a special day to honor military and civilian working dogs, passed away unexpectedly last Saturday morning. His wife, Sally, sent out the following emails to supporters of her husbands project, K-9 Veterans Day , asking ...
  3 weeks ago

• A damn good post about the ethics of working retrievers

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  At Pet Connection. [IMG: http://retrieverman.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/flat-coat-retrieving.jpg?w=517&h=717][IMG: http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrieverman.wordpress.com&blog=4174347&post=4024&subd=retrieverman&ref=&feed=1]
  3 weeks ago

• Some basic truths about splits in certain dog breeds

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  Speedwell Pluto I’ve noticed some discord among the golden retriever message boards about a post I wrote about the first golden retriever champion in this country. The following things are repeated. The GRCA doesn’t want a split in type, so they are doing everything they can to push a dual purpose dog. I’ve ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘Judge’ Sets Record, Six Arrests In One Night

  
  Dogster for the Love of Dog Blog — Authority: 434
  This Judge has four legs, he’s a police dog with the Winnipeg police force. On September 26th Judge and his human partner, Constable Scott Taylor, had a night that most in the force can only dream of.  They had an unprecedented six arrests in one evening! Here are the details from the Winnipeg Free Press. ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Dog’s Incredible Sense Of Smell

  
  Dogster for the Love of Dog Blog — Authority: 434
  I always knew dogs had an incredible sense of smell, but did you know they can smell 100,000 times better than humans? Or that dogs can smell things up to 40 feet underground? There’s an article from the Animal Health Care Center newsletter about a dog’s sense of smell, it contains some very informative ...
  3 weeks ago

• Snapshot Sunday: Socialize

  
  Raised By Wolves — Authority: 410
  Cole was pulled from a pile of dogshit on his abusers property when he was a month or so old. He spent the rest of his life, until September, behind the sheriffs evidence perimeter. He got to know and like a lot of people, but never saw a kid. The first kid he ever saw at close quarters was a ...
  4 weeks ago

• The First American Champion Golden

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  Am/Can. Ch. Speedwell Pluto Has anyone seen a dog like this in the show ring recently? Of course not. He doesn’t look like a lumbering old bear with tons of hair. Like this dog: Yes. I’m breaking that promise from a few days ago. But I just found a photo of Speedwell Pluto, and I thought I would share ...
  4 weeks ago

• Norwegian elkhound doing what it was bred to do

  
  Retrieverman's Weblog — Authority: 141
  Source. Elg means elk. Elk doesn’t mean the large species of Cervus we have in North America that we have unfortunately given that name. Elk means moose. Hund does not mean hound. Hund means dog. This is the Grå breed of  Norwegian elkhound. I don’t think I have to tell you what that means. There is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Kennel Club Photography Contest Winners

  
  Smartdogs' Weblog — Authority: 414
  The UK’s Guardian published photos by top winners in the Kennel Club’s 2009 Photographer of the Year contest. The winner was this photo of a Leonberger towing a boat.  Leonbergers and Newfoundlands are the only dogs allowed to compete in Newfoundland Club of America water rescue trials.  Towing a boat  ...
  4 weeks ago

• Another Breed, Just What We Need

  
  Dogster for the Love of Dog Blog — Authority: 434
  Every day, day after day, I report on the millions of unwanted dogs that are put down in this country. Today I read about a new breed, a  cross between a Belgian Malinois and a Siberian Husky to be called a Huskinois. Whether you agree with buying a purebred or not, nothing is ever going to change because there will ...
  4 weeks ago

• Visiting Tucson And Support A K9

  
  Puppy In Training — Authority: 111
  I’ve been pretty busy the past couple weeks.  Two weekends ago I was at a wedding in San Francisco and last weekend I met up with my college buddies in Tucson, Arizona to reminisce and have fun at our old hangouts.  We even caught a football game in the middle of rain and thunderstorms.  I looked up at the ...
  8 weeks ago

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