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On Dog Training

William Creed — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

I think admitting your dog has trained you in anything is something one should keep private. Accordingly, most of my conversations regarding education and my dog revolve around my teaching her a trick or two. This is mostly not true, though she does humour me by submitting herself to my encouragements.

Vintage Dog

Rose Frosek — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

Marlene Cook has been a collector ever since she can remember. Even at the age of fourteen, she’d spend lunch hours and weekends scouring thrift shops for interesting treasures, which she’d stash in vintage wine baskets under her bed. Well before she got her first dog, her attention was captured by antique canine curios, the seminal moment occuring when she came across a tintype photo of a Pit Bull on a chair at an antique sale. She has now amassed more than 2000 photo images of dogs.

Backstage Pass

Rose Frosek — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The weird and wonderful world of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show

Volkswagon Enlists Dogs to Bark “Star Wars” theme song

maxine — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

The teaser for the new VW commercial, "The Bark Side," which will air during the Superbowl, is both hilarious and supremely annoying. The best part? The Italian Greyhound/AT-AT’s entrance. Check it out. (Fair warning: you will spend the duration of the afternoon humming "dum, dum, dum, dum, DUM, dum, DUM, dum, DUM...)

Holiday Hounds

maxine — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Selections from our Holiday Hound photo contest

Gassy Lassie

maxine — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

Dog farts. For some, they’re no joke, but like a bad comedian they can clear a room. A common problem for breeds such as Boxers and French Bulldogs, flatulence stems from a variety of problems.

The White House Decorates for the Holidays... With a Bunch of Little Bo’s

maxine — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500

The White House is getting into the holiday spirit, doggone it. It unveiled its holiday decorations this week, and a certain four-legged member of the Obama family is represented throughout the White House. In addition to 37 Christmas trees and a 400-pound gingerbread, marzipan, and white chocolate White House—an exact replica, complete with tiny furniture, art, and chandeliers, there are an abundance of tributes to the First Dog, from ornaments to topiaries, including a “Button Bo,” a “Liquorice and Marshmallow Bo,” a four-and-a half-foot tall “felt Bo,” heck, even a “garbage bag Bo” made of, you guessed it, trash bags.

The Leonberger