Dog days are back with the 136th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City. Six breeds will be competing in the show for the first... Westminster Dog Show: Introducing The ...

Dante the dog is one of the stars of the Oscar-nominated animated movie Coco, but his roots, like the film’s, are in Mexico. The pup of the Disney/Pixar flick was modeled after Mexico’s national dog, ...

MEXICO CITY — Mezcal is not your ordinary pet. Hundreds of years ago the Latin American Indigenous group, the Nahuas, believed that a hairless dog like him, a Xoloitzcuintle, was a sacred creature ...

MEXICO CITY - Sleek with batlike ears, the hairless Xoloitzcuintles (show-low-ee-SQUINT-lees) look more like cartoon characters than canines. This rare breed's history dates back to the Aztecs, and it ...

Museum folklorist Cynthia Vid­aurri presents a talk on the xoloitzcuintli, commonly referred to as the Mexican hairless, an ancient dog breed that is deeply engrained in the culture and cosmologies of ...

When the average American thinks of a Mexican dog, the little feisty Chihuahua comes to mind. This is largely thanks to the fast food giant Taco Bell that used the Chihuahua as its mascot, and whose ...

Caring for a pet takes a lot of love and work (that's no secret), but it takes a truly special person to foster a rescue pet. These animals need a lot of extra time and patience to reach basic ...

It's been a long week, everyone is exhausted, and it's almost TGIF time so let's all take a dance break with this absolutely amazing Xolo dog who has some mad dancing skills. Get your dancing shoes on ...

In Pixar's new animated movie coming out later this year Coco our lead Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez has a dog named Dante. Dante is a Xoloitzcuintli or a Mexican Hairless Dog and Pixar brought ...