Across
- 3. B: The AKC says these "move like the athletes they're named for: smooth... graceful... powerful"
- 6. It's said that yapping dogs were fed these fried dumplings to keep quiet, hence their name
- 7. Exercise the Boston breed of this frequently; it's not only big dogs that need to be highly active
- 11. The first live animal mascot in college sports is said to be Handsome Dan, a dog of this breed, at Yale in 1889
- 12. This fictional dog is based on one named Spike that was Charles Schulz' childhood pet
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- 1. "Poor Richard's Almanack" included prudent gems like "He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with" these
- 2. In the title of their 2000 hit, the Baha Men wanted to know this
- 4. This German Shepherd star of films like "Where the North Begins" could scale walls
- 5. Introduced to them in Japan, Helen Keller is credited with bringing the first of these loyal guard dogs to the United States
- 8. Nova Scotia Duck Tolling is one breed of this sporting dog for whom "fetch!" should be instinctual
- 9. "These alert and amusing 'purse dogs' stand among the oldest breeds of the Americas"
- 10. Don't you love playing with toys? Toy dogs, that is, like this breed here whose name comes from an island
