A place for animal lovers, breed enthusiasts and pedigree addicts And it can even help a breed to survive.
Looking back at the roots of a breed and documenting its individuals' ancestry is important for planning its future. We believe in the power of people's passion for their pets and their dedication to their favourite breed. The Breed Archive offers you a platform for a breed's history and future, bringing together breed enthusiasts from all over the world.
*** Downtime Notice ***
Dear Breed Archive community,
We would like to inform you that we are planning a major system update for our Breed Archives on Thursday, 29 August 2024, which will result in a downtime of about one to three hours, depending on the archive. We will do our best to keep the outage as short as possible.
Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Responsible animal breeding is based on many factors, two of which are health and genetics. That's why we put a lot of effort into providing pedigree and health analysis in the Breed Archives.
Today we are happy to contribute another piece to support precise and sustainable breeding choices with our partnership with FERAGEN, a certified laboratory for genetic veterinary diagnostics in Austria.
Find out more:
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/46/dna-analysis-for-your-dog
A dog in sheep's clothing, the distinctive Bedlington Terrier has just joined the Breed Archive family!
Our latest addition is a unique breed: it is the Bedlington Terrier with a lamb-like appearance but true terrier grit.
The affectionate and agile Tibetan Terriers have recently joined our Breed Archive!
Despite its name, our latest addition is more of a herding and watch dog: it is the Tibetan Terrier, the Holy Dog of Tibet.
Another breed has recently joined the Breed Archive. Check out the sturdy and energetic German Wirehaired Pointer!
Our newest addition belongs to the Gundog group. It is the sturdy, energetic and bright German Wirehaired Pointer.
Check out our newest addition to the Breed Archive: the sometimes serious looking, but actually clownish Sussex Spaniel!
Our latest addition belongs to the spaniel family. It is the sometimes serious-looking, but friendly and clownish Sussex Spaniel.
The agile and smart Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers have recently joined our Breed Archive! Special thanks to Amy from k9data for entrusting her database to us.
Please find the migration instructions below:
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Dogs
In principle, all dogs from the k9data have been migrated and
are available on the new platform. We have skipped invalid data or
extremely incomplete data, e.g. if there was not even a
name.
Persons (Breeders, Owners)
We migrated a substantial part of this, but as the k9data system had
free-text fields for breeder and owner, this resulted in same persons written
in many different ways in the "Breeder", "Owner" textfields. We used automatic
routines and subsequent complex manual mappings to try - especially with
the breeders - to transfer the same persons - from the many different
spellings in the k9data - to the Breed Archive only once.
Photos
The Breed Archive does not embed photos from external web resource links
due to both copyright reasons and unavailability of remote websites.
Therefore we did migrate the photo links to the notes field.
Users can of course still upload photos from there later if they hold
the necessary copyrights and indicate this in our system when uploading.
Titles
All information entered in the title fields ("FrontTitles" and
"EndTitles" and "AdditionalTitles") of the k9data was
copied to the “other titles” field of the new platform to make sure no
information is lost. We could only migrate a subset of the old title
information to the new title format due to the fact that titles were
entered in arbitrary formats which made automatic conversions
impossible in some cases. You can, of course, manually match the
old title information of your dog to the titles of the new title list and
the titles will again be displayed with the name of the dog on his
detail page and in the pedigrees.
Health
A large part of the health information, health test results could be
migrated to the new schema, but not all. In case of a migration, please
find the original health information in the particular health notes
field where you can check if it was migrated correctly.
CauseOfDeath
We have migrated some of the more common causes of death. However, as
there were so many different entries and spellings in the k9data field,
without any standardisation, this is certainly not complete and will
have to be completed manually by the user community.
Colour
Field "ColorDesc" had nearly 2,000 different entries, so we have
mapped entries that occurred more than once to the entries based
on AKC, KC and FCI definitions (buff, orange, red, red gold without or
with white markings).
Additional notes:
Fields "Registry" and "RegistrationNumber" have been combined into
the Breed Archive registration number field.
Fields "CHIC", "Honorifics", "Image", "Microchip", "Misc" and "Website"
have all been put into the dog's notes field. If there was at least one OFA test,
we have added a link in the notes field consisting of the OFA-quicksearch and
the registration number of the respective dog.
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever - The Breed Archive - A place for animal lovers, breed enthusiasts and pedigree addicts
Recently, the small, cheerful Russian Toys have also joined our Breed Archive family:
The Breed Archive's newest addition belongs to the Toy and Companion dogs. It's the small but long legged Russian Toy.
The alert and smart Cardigan Welsh Corgis have recently joined our Breed Archive! Special thanks to Carolyn from the Cardigan Welsh Corgi Club of America for entrusting her database to us and for going on to administer the Cardis in their new home.
Our newest addition belongs to the group of Sheepdogs and Cattledogs, it's the fun-loving, sturdy Cardigan Welsh Corgi.
Origin and history have shaped appearance, character and abilities of our dogs. In our newest blog post we introduce the new facts page with voting option and our new "active in sports" feature:
Origin and history have shaped appearance, character and abilities of our dogs. We introduce our new facts page with voting option and our new "active in sports" feature.
The Mudi, the rare Hungarian herding dog, has recently become part of our breed archive family:
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/36/a-warm-welcome-to-the-mudi
Special thanks to Toni for sharing his pedigree collection!
The Breed Archive's newest addition belongs to the herding dogs: it is the rare Mudi from Hungary.
New year, new features:
We have done some New Year's cleaning and tidied up the person pages: now they are divided into owner and co-owner and into current and deceased dogs!
To all our users, a very merry Christmas and best wishes for good breeding in 2023! 🎄🍀
The rare Nederlandse Schapendoes has recently moved to his new home here at the Breed Archive.
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/28/welcome-the-nederlandse-schapendoes
Special thanks to Theo for letting us use his pedigree collection and for going on to take care of the Nederlandse Schapendoezen in their new home!
The rare breed of the Nederlandse Schapendoes has recently moved to its new home here at the Breed Archive.
We have added three new features and there is something for every type of user: for all users, for subscribers and for users with breeder subscription. Check it out:
We present three new features that we have implemented for you and there is something for every type of user!
The Breed Archive has become an important source of information for breeders worldwide.
The idea of supporting breeders even better with a breeding tool to help them find suitable stud dogs was already in our minds a few years ago - the restrictions on dog events due to Corona have increased the need.
Today, we are proud to finally present you this tool, our Mate Matcher. Find out more about it in our newest blog post:
The Breed Archive's new Mate Matcher tool supports breeders in finding suitable dogs for their breeding programmes.
Meet our newest addition, the rare Spitz dog from the north of Sweden, the Norrbottenspets: https://norrbottenspets.breedarchive.com
Norrbottenspets - The Breed Archive - A place for animal lovers, breed enthusiasts and pedigree addicts
The lively and spirited Miniature Pinschers have recently become part of our Breed Archive family!
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/23/a-warm-welcome-to-the-min-pins
The Breed Archive is now also home to the small but mighty Miniature Pinscher.
A day at the beach with your canine friend - for most of us there is hardly anything better! Here are a few tips to make it the best experience for both of you: https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/10/your-dog-and-the-beach
Exploring the beach, the waves and the new smells will make for a great experience for your dog - here's all you need to know about dogs at the beach.
We are happy to welcome the first sled dog in our Breed Archive family, the amazing Siberian Husky:
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/22/meet-the-siberian-husky
Special thanks to Joel for letting us use his Paw Village data!
The Breed Archive's newest addition belongs to the group of the Nordic Sledge Dogs, it's the energetic and handsome Siberian Husky.
The spirited and alert Manchester & English Toy Terriers have recently joined our Breed Archive: https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/21/welcome-the-manchester-english-toy-terriers
The Manchester Terriers and the English Toy Terriers have recently joined the Breed Archive.
Do you prefer collar or harness? We took a look at both options helping you to make a well-informed decision that is right for your dog
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/14/on-collars-and-harnesses
Collar or harness? That's a much-debated question! Here are some facts that will help dog owners decide.
Thank you all for celebrating our sixth birthday with us and for pointing out so many different breeds playing an active role not only on The Breed Archive but also in books, comics and movies!
We have rolled the dice and the winners are:
- Мари Ана
- Amanda Stone
- Jana Keim
Please send us a private message and let us know for which archive you'd like to redeem your subscription!
Thanks to all participants and congratulations to the winners of the draw!
Meet our newest addition, the versatile and smart German Shorthaired Pointer:
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/19/meet-the-german-shorthaired-pointer
The Breed Archive's newest addition is a hunting breed, it's the versatile and smart German Shorthaired Pointer.
Winter is just not over yet ☃️ When wind is blowing cold and snow is falling our warm winter coats and boots are in constant use to protect ourselves against the cold. But what about our dogs? Learn how to keep your dog toasty with our newest blog post: https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/18/keeping-your-dog-toasty-in-winter
We humans have quite a lot of options to protect ourselves against the cold, but what about our dogs?
Celebrate our sixth birthday with us today and win one of three 12-month subscriptions!
This year we would like to know from you which breeds, already hosted on the Breed Archive (https://breedarchive.com/home/index ) , are known as fictional characters from books, animation films, movies, or TV.
To participate please leave a comment under this post naming the breed together with the fictional character and book/comic/film in which it appears and that has not been mentioned in comments posted before. (We found at least six breeds starring in different fictional roles.)
Deadline to participate is 28 February 2022, 11 p.m. CET. Three randomly drawn winners will be announced on this page. If winners do not respond within two weeks after the posting of the winner’s notification, they lose any entitlement to receive a subscription. If winners are already subscribers, their subscription will be extended for another 12 months. All decisions are final and cash payouts are excluded.
The lively and cheerful Fox Terriers have recently joined our Breed Archive! Special thanks to Alex for entrusting her database to us and for going on to administer the Fox Terriers in their new home.
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/17/welcome-the-fox-terriers
The Breed Archive is now also home to the alert and enthusiastic Smooth and Wire Fox Terriers.
Our archive has recently received an update for another long-awaited feature:
It is now possible for any registered user to link their account to their person entry in the archive.
This link allows other users to identify breeders or owners of other dogs and exchange private messages with them specifically. It also means that only the linked user can edit the person entry.
After some of the food sins of the Christmas holidays, it's time to start eating healthier again. One of the most important ways to make sure that your dog is as healthy as can be is to provide it with a balanced and high quality diet. Get some tips and hints with this task in our newest blog post:
https://breedarchive.com/blog/view/16/your-dogs-diet
Wouldn't it be nice if we could control our own diet the way we control that of our pawsome friends?
A good diet is not only important for us humans, but also for our pets to enable them to live a long healthy life.
To all our users, a very merry Christmas and best wishes for good breeding in 2022!
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