Breed Insight (Working & Hunting Breeds)

The first time I took Rina into the city for show preparation, she stopped dead in the middle of the pavement, nose in the air, and simply left the conversation. I was still holding the leash. Mentally, she was three streets over, following whatever trail had just crossed her path. Rina is a Montenegrin Mountain…

There’s a particular kind of tired that comes from owning a dog who was never supposed to live like this. Not the good kind of tired, either – not “we had a lovely long walk” tired. I mean the specific exhaustion of loving a dog who was bred, for generations, to do a job that…