Sourced from working breeders
Every breed profile is fact-checked against at least one registered working breeder in the country of origin — never against a marketing brochure. We publish conflicts of interest when they appear.
Est. 2014 · Budapest → Worldwide
A small editorial kennel with a very big respect for European dogs.
Euro Puppy Blog is a reader-funded publication for people preparing to share their home with a European-bred dog — written by breeders, vets, behaviourists, and lifelong owners who think slow, research hard, and love a bit of dog hair on a linen sofa.
Our story
We started in a kitchen in Budapest, writing about our own dogs.
Euro Puppy Blog began in 2014 as a small notebook kept by a Hungarian breeder and a Scottish veterinarian who kept answering the same questions from new owners. Should a Vizsla really live in a flat? Why is my Lagotto eating the sofa? Is a Slovakian Cuvac too much dog for a first-time owner? The answers deserved more than a quick email reply, so we started writing them down.
Ten years later, the notebook has grown into a multilingual editorial site read by more than half a million prospective owners a year — but our editorial rules have stayed the same. Every breed profile is cross-checked against a working breeder. Every care guide is reviewed by a vet. Every opinion on temperament is earned, not borrowed from a forum thread. We are not a shop, we are not a directory, and we will never recommend a breed we wouldn't share a home with ourselves.
"A good European breed is a 12-to-15-year conversation — not a checkout." — Eszter K., founding editor
Mission & values
Three editorial rules we refuse to break.
Anyone can publish a breed list. We try to be something slower, more careful, and more useful to a person about to live with a dog for the next decade and a half.
Vetted by practising vets
Every health, nutrition, and care guide is reviewed by a practising small-animal veterinarian. We name the reviewing vet on each piece and we update articles when the science changes.
Honest about the hard parts
We don't sell dreams. If a Mudi will herd your children, if a Caucasian Shepherd can flip a small child in play, if a Komondor coat is a lifestyle — we say so, kindly, in the open. Honesty is the only sustainable form of advice.
A small footprint, a long memory
The numbers behind the byline.
We are a deliberately small team. The point isn't to be the biggest dog site on the internet — it is to be the one a thoughtful reader trusts on the morning they bring a puppy home.
62
European breed profiles
480k+
Readers a year
17
Contributing specialists
11
Languages of source material
Contributors
The people who actually write the thing.
Our editorial roster is mostly breeders, vets, and behaviourists working in the field — plus a handful of long-form writers who translate the science into plain language for a tired reader at 1 a.m. with a crate-trained puppy in the kitchen.
Eszter Kovács
Founding EditorHungarian breeder of Wirehaired Vizslas for 22 years. Writes the breed-origin essays and edits everything that goes on the site.
Dr. Roisin MacLeod
Veterinary ReviewerEdinburgh-based small-animal vet with a soft spot for giant breeds. Reviews every health and care article and is famously picky about footnotes.
Paolo Benedetti
Behaviour EditorItalian behaviourist specialising in working and guardian breeds. Translates the trickier training questions into clear, step-by-step guides.
Anika Jansen
Puppy Care LeadDutch writer and former shelter manager. Owns a slightly chaotic household of three Mudi, one toddler, and an unreasonable amount of kitchen towels.
How we work
From rough notebook to your inbox — four steps.
Every article on Euro Puppy Blog goes through the same slow pipeline. It is the only way we know how to keep our work honest, and it is the reason we will never out-shout the algorithm.
01
Field research
Visits to working breeders, kennel clubs, and shelters across Europe — often in the original language, with a translator when needed.
02
First draft
A specialist writes in their own voice, with citations to peer-reviewed sources where the science matters and plain English where it does not.
03
Cross-review
A second reader — usually a vet, behaviourist, or experienced owner — challenges every claim. We name our reviewers in each article.
04
Living update
Articles get a review date in the footer. When the science changes, or a reader points out a mistake, we update in public.
Stay close to the kennel
A new breed guide drops most Sundays.
We send one careful email a week — a new breed profile, a vetting question answered, and the occasional reader story. No tracking pixels, no upsell, easy to leave.