German working retrievers

Source. These dogs appear to be two yellow Labs and a golden. Note that there is less emphasis on lining and handling. Much more of it is the dog’s ability to find game. Steadiness is also important. None of these dogs barks or bounces to break the line. That golden sent for the blind in [...]

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Starting a retriever puppy

Source. This puppy has a lot of natural retrieving instinct, so it is best to do little more than encourage the pup to retrieve at this point. As they get older, you can start adding refined working retriever behavior. BTW, this is the same dog as a young adult: Source.

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Could they still be out there?

Source There’s a chance that they might– but it’s not very good. The thylacine or Tasmania tiger is a marsupial carnivore closely related to the Tasmanian devil and the quolls. (In fact, I think quolls look like mini-Thylacines). It became extinct on the Australian mainland around 3,000 years ago, not long– in natural history time– [...]

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Brave New Dog World: South Koreans Create Dogs that Glow in the Dark

Four beagles in Seoul, South Korea, look like normal dogs during the day. At night, they glow red when exposed to an ultra-violet light. These puppies were cloned from skin cells from a bitch beagle that were inserted with genes from jellyfish that cause biofluorescence. These are the world’s first transgenic dogs, and they may [...]

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How long until an accident happens at this “petting zoo”?

Whoa.

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Chinese painted quail

Source. Remember how I said that New World quail aren’t that closely related to Old World quail, especially the Coturnix quail? The Chinese painted quail or Asian blue quail is the smallest of the Coturnix species. It is relatively common species for aviculture, and it is often kept as an aviary species. Its natural range [...]

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Performance-bred golden puppies-

Source. These are Topbrass puppies–  a high quality strain for working-type goldens.

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A cute chicken for your home

Source The Serama comes from Malaysia, and it is a small chicken. We usually call small chicken breeds “bantams.” And they are so small, that they can be kept in a relatively small place. Now, bantams of all breeds produce tiny eggs, and if you want to eat one, there’s not that much to make [...]

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Tegu vs Hamster

Source. Music by Ludwig van Beethoven. Lyrics by Friedrich Schiller Lyrics in German and English! Golden hamsters are from Syria. Tegus are from South America. They are not natural enemies in the wild. The only thing that has me worried about this video is the hamster bit the tegu a few times. Those bites can [...]

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How a breed gets started

Source. Remember the Andean tiger hound and the various strains of double-nosed pointer? According to that video, it seems that some South American dog fanciers are trying to create an “improved” breed of double-nosed Latin American dog. This is a good example of how many breeds got started. If these two dogs in the video [...]

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