Prairie dogs were popping up and popping down.

Passing dogs were greeted with a cordial bark.

It was interesting to note that many of these Juniors were showing dogs in various other classes at the show prior to the Finals of the Junior Class.

Now it became increasingly apparent that there were to be no dogs in the picture.

What in the world were you going to do with a lot of dogs when you left for town on Monday afternoons??

The dogs were tired.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".

Kenya, they were extirpated within the last decade due to illegal hunting with dogs.

As well as providing exciting sport, the tests were used for selecting borzoi breeding stock ; only the quickest and most intelligent hunting dogs went on to produce progeny.

Hares and other small game were by far the most numerous kills, but the hunters especially loved to test their dogs on wolf.

In July 2008, History's Monster Quest series featured the Texas carcasses, which were determined to be dogs and coyotes.

These include Quanterness chambered cairn ( 3250 BC ) in which the remains of 157 individuals were found when excavated in the 1970s, Cuween Hill near Finstown which was found to contain the bones of men, dogs and oxen and Wideford Hill cairn, which dates from 2000 BC.

They were nicknamed Hundemarken ( the German equivalent of " dog tags ") and compared to a similar identification system instituted for dogs in the Prussian capital city of Berlin at about the same time.

A 2008 University of Pennsylvania study of 6, 000 dog owners who were interviewed indicated that dogs of smaller breeds were more likely to be " genetically predisposed towards aggressive behaviour ".

Dachshunds were rated the most aggressive, with 20 % having bitten strangers, as well as high rates of attacks on other dogs and their owners.

The study noted that attacks by small dogs were unlikely to cause serious injuries and because of this were probably under-reported.

Some writers and dachshund experts have theorized that the early roots of the dachshund go back to ancient Egypt, where engravings were made featuring short-legged hunting dogs.

There are huge differences of opinion as to when dachshunds were specifically bred for their purpose of badger hunting, as the American Kennel Club states the dachshund was bred in the 15th century, while the Dachshund Club of America states that foresters bred the dogs in the 18th or 19th century.

Other suspected sources of the plague were cats and dogs, most of which the Lord Mayor of London at the time had caused to be exterminated.

Completely overshadowed by Prussia and Austria, the smaller German states were generally characterized by political lethargy and administrative inefficiency, often compounded by rulers who were more concerned with their mistresses and their hunting dogs than with the affairs of state.

To this day short-haired Hortaya Borzaya are highly valued hunting dogs on the steppes, while the long-haired Psovaya Borzaya, is going through a hard period of restoration of its working qualities after decades of shadow, mainly show existence.

Soviet rocket engineers had long intended a canine orbit before attempting human spaceflight ; since 1951, they had lofted 12 dogs into sub-orbital space on ballistic flights, working gradually toward an orbital mission possibly some time in 1958.

Although Galgos are big dogs, their history of selection as a working sighthound, their light weight and anatomy, keep them safe from hip dysplasia.

English Setters are energetic, people-oriented dogs, that are well suited to families who can give them attention and activity, or to working with a hunter, where they have a job to do.

Most owners expect their service dogs to be treated as a working animal while in public.

All service dogs need to learn a working position, usually the heel position, which the dog is responsible for maintaining regardless of how the owner moves and whether or not a leash is dropped.

Service dogs are free to act normally when they are not working.

Nevertheless, just as with any other trained animal, working dogs must still obey commands even when they are off-duty.

Breed standards prescribe the most desirable specimen attributes and working abilities for purebred dogs of that breed as well as undesirable traits.

Breeders can use this insight to determine how and whether to use the dog in producing the next generation of working dogs.

The German Shepherd was developed from working herding dogs around 1900 as an all-around working dog.

Within a few years it was clear that the dogs were losing their working ability.

The DHV changed the name of the titles from " SchH " ( Schutzhund ) to " VPG " ( Vielseitigkeitsprüfung für Gebrauchshunde which roughly translates Versatility examination for working dogs ).

The US military has developed body armor for the working dogs who aid GIs in battle.

Rabbits were fed to working dogs, and boiled to be fed to the poultry.

The forerunners of today's Pomeranian breed were large working dogs from the Arctic regions.

-This theory is based on the United Kennel Club's ( the leading ' working dog ' registry in the U. S. in terms of numbers of dogs registered ) classification system which, within the scenthounds, includes a sub-group known as " Cur Dogs ".

During the Vietnam War ehrlichiosis became well known as a dog disease due to the infection and death of many military working dogs.

In the United States, the term " service dog " may be used synonymously with " assistance dog ," and is occasionally used for other types of working dogs as well.

Heinemann was invited to judge classes for working terriers at Crufts with an aim to bring working terriers back into the show ring and influence those that disregard working qualities in dogs.

Size ranges for dogs were kept broad, with the ability of working dogs awarded higher than those in conformation shows.