This is pretty good

What follows is political. Ignore if you disagree. Source.

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Identify this skull

The answer.

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Identify this skull

Look at those canines! Rinalia got it right.

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A Newfoundland retrieving a duck

Newfoundlands were used for retrieving shot birds. Yes, this includes the large black and white dog that eventually became the modern Newfoundland and FCI Landseer breeds. This painting is by Edmund Bristow. So yes, Newfoundlands were used as retrievers in both the United States and Europe. One of the problems in determining what dogs were [...]

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Newfoundlands are slower swimmers than retrievers– Get over it!

Newfoundland swimming: Source. Here’s a flat-coat: Source. See how maneuverable that flat-coat is in the water? That’s why it’s a gun dog, and the Newfoundland isn’t. And watch this little golden (“Shuttle” from the header) I’m pretty sure she could swim circles around a giant dog with tons of bone and hair. I’m not going [...]

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One little warning

I noticed that the top referring search term for this blog is “pit bull.” I know just a little bit about their history, mainly because I’ve subjected myself to reading rather dubious and poorly written histories of the fighting strains of that dog. Why? Because they are actually very similar to retriever bloodlines and histories. [...]

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Skunks

For those of you who don’t live in North America, here’s a very good video on skunks. This show was on PBS not long ago, and the striped skunks were awesome. Source. I can’t describe what skunk musk smells like. I really can’t. It’s really not the smell that is bad. It’s how it irritates [...]

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Skunks

For those of you who don’t live in North America, here’s a very good video on skunks. This show was on PBS not long ago, and the striped skunks were awesome. Source. I can’t describe what skunk musk smells like. I really can’t. It’s really not the smell that is bad. It’s how it irritates [...]

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Very strange bigfoot tale from West Virginia

source. You must read it to believe it! (And I don’t believe it) Randolph County, in case you didn’t know, is the largest county in West Virginia (in terms of acreage). It is in the heart of the Allegheny Mountains and has large areas of nothing but wilderness. It has a large population of bears. [...]

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Are dogs wolves?

Okay, I know I’ve touched on this before. But I think I’ll go ahead with another post on this topic. Dogs are wolves. They differ at most 0.2 percent from wild wolves in their MtDNA sequence. I needed to italicize that “at most” because it is very common to see it written that dogs differ [...]

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