by Dunston Lodge | Feb 29, 2020 | Dog Facts, Dog Kennels Chesterfield, Dog News, Dog Research, Dog Studies
In 2003 the Kennel Club took the decision to identify those breeds of native British and Irish dog that have been in decline and has been tracking the birth rates ever since. The initial research concentrated on those breeds with 300 or fewer registrations each year...
by Dunston Lodge | Aug 26, 2019 | Dog Facts, Dog Kennels Chesterfield, Dog News, Dog Research, Dog Studies, Health and Wellbeing
According to studies, it’s not just 7 times your dog’s age! Kelly M Cassidy from Washington State University compiles studies about longevity in dogs, and she says that there just isn’t a hard and fast rule around the 7 year calculation, even though...
by Dunston Lodge | Aug 7, 2019 | Dog behaviour, Dog Research, Dog Studies
A new study by Swedish and British scientists have been studying whether or not our genetic makeup influences our inclination for dog ownership. The study by the team from Uppsala University and Liverpool University, used information from over 35 thousand sets of...
by Dunston Lodge | Jun 3, 2019 | Dog Kennels Chesterfield, Dog News, Dog Research, Dog Studies, Dog Tips, Top Dogs
As Derbyshire’s premier dog kennels, we love all dogs, but we thought we’d take a look into what breeds are amongst the favourites in the UK this year. Earlier this year ITV aired a programme called Britain’s Top Dogs Live. The show asked...
by Dunston Lodge | Mar 15, 2019 | Dog behaviour, Dog News, Dog Research, Dog Studies
Dr Juliane Bräuer from the Institute of Human History says that the domestic dog is a good model for researching the evolution of cognition in human beings and thus is undertaking a research project utilising the behaviour of dogs in understanding human behaviour. ...
by Dunston Lodge | Oct 17, 2018 | Dog Facts, Dog Kennels Chesterfield, Dog News, Dog Research, Dog Studies, Top Dogs
The BBC has put together this brilliant Dog Map for the UK from 10 years of data from microchipped dogs. The study was compiled using data from Petlog and Animalcare and included 5 million dogs (about 60% of all dogs in the country). The BBC has produced an...
