Portuguese Water Dog Sep 6 2010

Are You Walking Your Yorkie Like a Great Dane? Tips to Keep Your Breed Healthy
Your Portuguese Water Dog is one medium-sized excitable canine that thrives with daily exercise. Portuguese Water Dogs appear full-grown after a few months, but their actual muscle development doesn't catch up to their frame until around 18 months old. This breed requires walking less than a mile at...

Pups get cool in the pool
However a Portuguese Water Dog did finally make a jump from the side of the pool to retrieve the tennis ball that was used to try to coax a jump. The lack of participation may have been based on the jump being an individual event, vice a team sport. Once the competition ended, several groups of dogs...

Rainy-day hoops for Obama
Bo is the Obamas' Portuguese water dog.A few hundred people did stop by photographer Peter Simon's Vineyard Haven gallery Sunday for the opening of an exhibit of Obama pictures shot by Callie Shell, a photographer for Time. Shell didn't make the scene, but we did run into Jay Gould, owner of the Fla...

[Redacted] Advice -- Our Anonymous Dude Answers Your Letters
I have a question about Portuguese water dogs. Why didn't the Obama family adopt a rescued Portuguese water dog when they decided to get one? That would have been nice and set a great example. -- MA Because he's a socialist? Actually, I think they were given that dog as a gift by the late Ted Kenned...

Hail to the Pets!
Barack Obama: Bo — The nation's current First Dog, the Portuguese water dog Bo, technically belongs to First Daughters Malia and Sasha, who received the pup as a gift from the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his wife, Victoria. Although some animal rights activists criticized the family for accep...