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Dog breed census 2021: Labs, hounds top list; pit bulls come in third

July 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The real “face of America’s dog” is not much different from 1900-1950,  even if pit bulls are more abundant If someone wrote the sort of demonstrable nonsense about the relative popularity of automobile makes that a fellow named Brett Bachman published on Salon.com on July 4,  2021 about dog demographics,  that essay would likely never […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Breeding, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Pigeon flying, USA Tagged With: Brett Bachman, Christian M. Wade, Cuban bloodhound, French bulldog, Great Dane, Lassie, Merritt Clifton, Rin Tin Tin

Hitler’s pit bull, Sergeant Stubby the Boston terrier, & other dogs of war

November 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Many dogs worth remembering on Veteran’s Day “Cry, ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war,” wrote William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (1599), but the most famous dogs of war remain those of World War I––ironically a war in which dogs were not officially used by the militaries of any of the victorious Allied nations. […]

Filed Under: Central Europe, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Germany, Police & military, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Adolph Hitler, Jiggs, Merritt Clifton, Rin Tin Tin, Stubby

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