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President-elect Obama promised his daughters a puppy after the election, but finding one is proving to be a bit of a challenge.  “This is a major issue,” Obama told reporters at his news conference Friday. It’s generated more interest on his Web site than any other topic, he joked.

Here’s a look at the best in show competition at the National Dog Show, presented by Purina, and held over the holidays in Reading, Pa. There were 1,505 dogs — 150 breeds — entered, and best in show went to Holly, an English pointer.

Nine months into his reign as the first beagle to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, 3-year-old Uno is not fading away. He is the show’s busiest-ever Best in Show titlist. He was the first one to be celebrated as a champion by President Bush in the White House Rose Garden last May and still wears the red, white and blue collar that Laura Bush gave him.

Tomorrow, on Thanksgiving Day, NBC will be featuring "The National Dog Show Presented by Purina" which will introduce the newest American Kennel Club-sanctioned breed, the Dogue de Bordeaux. What will not be said: the dog is a complete genetic wreck and has been heavily inbred from a small gene pool in the U.S.

One hundred and forty nine years ago today, Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, one of the most important books in the history of the world. That same year, the first organized dog show was held, and the world of dogs has not been the same since. Below is a short excerpt from Chapter One of American Working Terriers.

The Australians are the latest English-speaking country to catch-a-fire over the issue of selection for defect and inbreeding in Kennel Club dogs. In October the Australian National Kennel Club announced that they would be adopting the newly revised UK Kennel Club standard for the Pekingese, and

Gurgaon, Nov 22 (IANS) For you dog lovers, here’s an event not to be missed. In December more than 1,000 canines from all over the world will rub tails, oops shoulders, with each other at the FCI International Dog Show here.With participation from Britain, Iran, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore and

Came across an interesting article on Forbes.com. You can pick up after your pooch and make sure he plays nice, but it’s your dog’s breed that truly speaks volumes about what kind of owner you are. Got a Beagle? You are inquisitive and willing to learn new things. The Beagle is constantly questioning.

The Kennel Club has scrambled to come up with a proper response to the BBC documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed. Their first move was to trot out in-house public relations apologist, Caroline Kisko, who ran through the standard play book for what a company does when caught in scandal. Ms.

Samoyeds at Crufts The Telegraph (UK) reports: The future of Crufts is in doubt after the show's sponsor, Pedigree, pulled its sponsorship after 44 years. The move could spell disaster for the show, which has been embroiled in controversy since a BBC documentary claimed that Crufts supports