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The slave-catching dog that was infamous in the South for tracking down its victims and savagely mauling them was the Cuban bloodhound. It was most likely derived from the Spanish war mastiff (a derivative of the Alaunt) with maybe a tough of greyhound or scent hound blood. Drury has a depiction of this dog: Note how similar this [...]
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            A bloodhound in the employ of the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office ran away from her handler in Waldorf last week, but was returned yesterday. Zoey, a 5 1/2 -year-old bloodhound, is expected to resume full duty, the Washington Post reported. Authorities said the missing dog was found wandering the streets by a man who contacted Zoey’s trainer [...]
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We have all grown up with at least one hero in our life, but how many people can call their hero Duke or Kiva?  The answer- anyone who has had their life saved by a rescue dog. Whether it is a house fire, tornado rubble, leftovers from an earthquake, or flowing water behind a hurricane front, [...]
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Some owners seem to want their dogs to stop barking, period: a good dog is a quiet dog, and the only time that barking’s permitted is when there’s a man in a black balaclava and stripy prison outfit, clutching a haversack marked ‘Swag’, clambering in through your bedroom window. Dogs don’t see barking in quite the [...]
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The Beagle is a dog that officially belongs in the hound group. This group is divided into two classes - those that hunt with their eyes, like the Greyhound and the Borzoi, and those that hunt with their noses, like the Dachshund and the Bloodhound. The Beagle is a nose hunter, too. If you take a [...]
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