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The Basset Hound is a short-legged, hound-type of dog with a long history going back to the Middle Ages around 1000 AD in Belgium when St. Hubert of Benedictine Abbey began a breeding program that later became known as "St. Hubert's Hound". Historical anecdotes also found the Basset Hound to have descended from a much older breed called the Laconia Hound in the ancient Greek city of Laconia. The Laconia Hound was quite popular that the famous English playwright, William Shakespeare wrote about the Laconian Hound in his comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream". "My hounds are bred out of the...

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The Norwegian Buhund belongs to the spitz type breed of dog that is closely related to the Icelandic Sheepdog and Swedish Elkhound. The Buhund also known as the Norsk Buhund by Scandinavians was believed to have traveled with ancient Vikings during the 8th to 11th century in Scandinavia which is now Denmark, Norway and Sweden.The Norwegian Buhund was used to herd livestock like sheep and seen as a general farm dog that kept watch over the farm animals and hunted wild animals that are much larger than its size like bears and wolves. Today, Norwegian Buhunds make excellent watch dogs and companions...

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The Basenji originated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in central Africa and known as the "dog of the bush". It's also been called other names such as "savage dog" (or mbwa shenzi), "wild dog" and "dog that jumps up and down" (or m'bwa m'kube and mbwa wa mwitu). And yet despite its glaring name of being called "savage" or "wild", the Basenji's reputation as intelligent, courageous, silent, and fast was prized by African locals. The early introduction of the Basenji to Europe and North America did not come without setbacks as earlier attempts to breed these dogs resulted...