Britain’s newest pedigree dog breed has just been announced by The Kennel Club as the Icelandic Sheepdog. The historic dog breed is believed to have existed for more than 1,000 years in the Nordics, ...

Ciara Farrell, a Kennel Club Historian, tells Country Living: "Dog ‘breeds’, as we know them today, are a fairly modern ...

The UK pedigree dog population shrank by a yearly decline of 0.9% between 1990 and 2021, according to research published in Companion Animal Genetics and Health. The study highlights a rise in the ...

Three of the dogs the British public love the most. Dogs come in all shapes and sizes - the UK Kennel Club recognises 221 different pedigree dogs, from the Affenpinscher to the Yorkshire Terrier.

It can be easy to get swept up in the ‘latest' dog breeds– such as the newest pedigree dog breed, the Hungarian Mudi, announced by the Kennel Club last month – so we think it’s high time to look back ...