breeder
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It’s her fourth time participating, and last year she secured second place, losing to a 2-year-old hairless Frenchie and English bulldog mix named Petunia who had been rescued from a backyard breeder in Las Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Rachel Fealko, a third-generation Samoyed breeder in Ann Arbor, Mich., said she’s been getting more emails since word of Swift’s pup hit the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
More than 100,000 contraband cockroaches were found in a raid on a commercial breeder in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, Australia's environment department said on Friday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Showhouses are always extravagant, and this year’s event takes place inside the 8,000-square-foot former home of Clara Baldwin Stocker, daughter of land investor and racehorse breeder Elias J. “Lucky” Baldwin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
She had been allowed to watch the lab attendants, in gowns and gloves, strip eggs from what they called the breeder fish, anesthetized females.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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Most of the dogs are beagles, along with some Malinois and Shepherd mixes, brought on board through adoption or legal breeders.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Though the Womacks come from a line of West Virginian horse breeders, there was nothing Americana about the childhoods of BG, Zeimani and Kucha.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
It can take 10 to 15 years for breeders in the US and Europe to develop a top quality fruit and they patent their varieties.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I don’t think they bring something new in breeding,” said Joris de Brabander, one of Europe’s most successful breeders of show-jumping horses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Even 20th-century plant breeders, armed with all the power of modern science, have had little success in exploiting North American wild plants.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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