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Dog meat consumption in South Korea

Dog meat consumption in South Korea (개식용), a centuries-old stamina food eaten as boshintang, becomes illegal to breed, slaughter, or sell under the 2024 Special Act effective 7 February 2027, with 82% of farms already closed.

Dog Park (TV series)

Dog Park is a 2026 Australian comedy-drama TV series (also known as Собачья площадка) on ABC TV/iview, created by Leon Ford and Amanda Higgs; six ~28-minute episodes about a lonely Melbourne man, Roland, adopted by a dog-park community.

Dog Pound (film)

Dog Pound is a 2010 prison drama by Kim Chapiron, a France-Canada-UK remake of Alan Clarke's Scum, set at the Enola Vale juvenile detention center in Montana; it won Chapiron Tribeca's Best New Narrative Filmmaker award.

Dog skin disorders

Dog skin disorders: inflammatory, allergic, parasitic, and infectious skin diseases in dogs, among the most common reasons for veterinary visits; includes atopic dermatitis, flea and food allergy, pyoderma, and their diagnosis and treatment.

Dog Soldiers

The Dog Soldiers (Hotamétaneo'o, Dog Men) were one of six Cheyenne military societies that from the late 1830s became a dominant militaristic band resisting US expansion, led by Tall Bull until Summit Springs in 1869.

Dog Soldiers (film)

Dog Soldiers is a 2002 British werewolf horror film, Neil Marshall's directorial debut, about a squad of British soldiers besieged by werewolves in a Scottish Highlands farmhouse; made for about $2 million and later a cult classic.

Dog tag

Dog tags are military identification tags worn around the neck, issued as two per US service member since standardization in 1913 after Chaplain Charles C. Pierce's 1899 proposal; tags carry name, ID number, blood type, and religion.

Dog the Bounty Hunter

Dog the Bounty Hunter: A&E American reality series (2004–2012, also listed 2003–2012) following bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, his wife Beth, and family at Da Kine Bail Bonds in Hawaii, capturing bail skippers.

Dog training

Dog training, also called dog obedience training, applies learning theory to change a dog's behavior, teaching skills such as recall and preparing dogs for service roles.

Dog type

Dog type is the defining form and function of a dog breed: head and body structure, coat, and working purpose. Preserved by breed standards, classified into AKC's 7 and FCI's 10 groups, and genetically compact, with few loci driving most breed morphology.

Dog whelk

Dog whelk (Nucella lapillus), a North Atlantic muricid snail that drills barnacles and mussels; females develop TBT-induced imposex, making it a classic marine pollution bioindicator.

Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan

Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan is a 2004 National Geographic reality series (9 seasons, 170+ episodes, 80+ countries) in which Cesar Millan rehabilitates dogs using dominance-based, wolf-pack methods criticized by veterinary behaviorists.

Dog whistle

A dog whistle, also called a Galton whistle or silent whistle, is a whistle used in dog training, with ultrasonic versions pitched above most human hearing.

Dog whistle (politics)

Dog whistle (politics): coded political language sending one innocuous message to the general public and a second, often racial or inflammatory, message to an in-group; term coined by Richard Morin in 1988, central to the US Southern Strategy.

Dog with a Blog

Dog with a Blog is a Disney Channel live-action sitcom (2012-2015, three seasons) in which step-siblings Tyler and Avery hide the secret that their adopted dog Stan talks and writes a blog; voiced by Stephen Full.

Doge (meme)

Doge is an internet meme pairing Shiba Inu photos, chiefly Kabosu's 2010 sideways glance, with broken-English Comic Sans captions. It broke out in 2013, spawned Dogecoin, and named the DOGE department.

Doge of Venice

Doge of Venice: elected-for-life head of state of the Republic of Venice, from Latin dux; about 120 holders from 697 AD (traditionally Paolo Lucio Anafesto) to Ludovico Manin's 1797 abdication, chosen by a 1268 lot-and-vote protocol and progressively stripped of power.

Doge's Palace

The Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale) is a Gothic palace in Venice that was the residence of the Doge and seat of government of the Venetian Republic.

Dogecoin

Dogecoin (DOGE) is an open-source cryptocurrency launched in 2013 by Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer as a joke, named for the viral Shiba Inu doge meme.

Dōgen

Dōgen (道元, 1200–1253) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan after study in Song China, established the monastery Eiheiji, and wrote the Shōbōgenzō.

DogFart

DogFart is an American adult entertainment network specializing in interracial content, producing online since 1996 and now operating more than 20 exclusive sites, including Blacks On Blondes, under one subscription.

Dogfight

A dogfight is a close-range aerial battle between fighter aircraft, each maneuvering to gain a firing position on the other, a practice dating from the First World War.

Dogfight (film)

Dogfight is a 1991 American drama directed by Nancy Savoca, written by Bob Comfort, starring River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. Marines on the eve of Vietnam deployment hold an ugly-date contest; Birdlace's date Rose discovers the game. Released by Warner Bros. 13 September 1991; grossed $394,631.

Dogfight (musical)

Dogfight is a 2012 Off-Broadway musical by Pasek and Paul with book by Peter Duchan, based on the 1991 River Phoenix film, about Marines and a cruel 1963 date contest; it won the Lucille Lortel Award.

Dogger Bank

Dogger Bank: large shallow sandbank in the southern North Sea, largest in UK waters, SAC of 12,331 km², glacial moraine origin, also a major offshore wind farm site.

Dogger Bank South

Dogger Bank South is a pair of offshore wind farms in the North Sea, developed by RWE and Masdar, with 3 GW combined capacity and consent granted in 2026.

Dogger Bank Wind Farm

Dogger Bank Wind Farm is an offshore wind farm under construction 130 to 190 km off England's coast, intended to become the world's largest at 3.6 GW.

Doggerland

Doggerland: the now-submerged North Sea landmass connecting Britain to Europe, named by Bryony Coles (1998); drowned gradually by Holocene sea-level rise, with the Storegga tsunami of c. 8150 BP striking the residual Dogger Archipelago.

Dogging (sexual slang)

Dogging is British slang for having or watching sex in public or semi-public places, traditionally parked cars; coined in the 1970s for spying on couples, popularized in 2003, now partly moved to private clubs.

Doggy style

Doggy style (doggie style) is a rear-entry sex position with the penetrated partner on all fours. Covers etymology (1940s "dog style", 1970s term), survey popularity, comfort adjustments, and penile fracture risk data.