These rare Xolo pups look just like baby hippos, and their breeder is working to save the ancient breed from extinction.

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 ...

What makes the Xolo’s official recognition noteworthy is the breed’s unexpected redemption. The AKC erased the breed from its stud book 50 years ago when interest in this once-popular dog faded and ...

The Xoloitzcuintli dog breed — sometimes called the Mexican Hairless or just Xolo — may well have descended from the first dogs to set paw on the North American continent. In their native Mexico and ...

With all the dog celebrities at the Westminster Dog Show (think Martha Stewart’s Chow Chow), there is one dog getting rock star status this year: the Xolo. The xoloitzcuintli, one of six new breeds ...

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 ...

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 — The star of the World Dog Show is not the soulful Labrador, the bulldog with attitude or even the manic Chihuahua. This year, the hairless Xoloitzcuintles (show-low-ee-SQUINT-lees) are ...

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 ...