Would you pay $50,000 to clone your beloved dog? What if it cost less? So many questions arise as technology and science get cheaper and cheaper. But no matter how much it will devastate me when Max and Remy leave this Earth, and no matter how much I would LOVE to have them back, I [...]

If they taught me this way back in grade school I’d now have a doctorate in… golden retrievers.

This is a great story from this week’s Time Magazine. Seems we are about to learn more about our beloved canines then we’ve ever know before! – Kenn Bell Brian Hare, assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, holds out a dog biscuit. “Henry!” he says. Henry is a big black schnauzer-poodle mix–a schnoodle, [...]

ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2009) — African village dogs are not a mixture of modern breeds but have directly descended from an ancestral pool of indigenous dogs, according to a Cornell-led genetic analysis of hundreds of semi-feral African village dogs. That means that village dogs from most African regions are genetically distinct from non-native breeds and [...]

Here’s an article we found on the Science Daily web site about the origins of the Shar Pei’s wrinkles. Below the article is a cute video of a Shar Pei puppy. A group of researchers at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have discovered the origin of the mucinosis present in Shar Pei dogs, a hereditary [...]