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Analysis of hot topics in the dog world, especially border collies. Critique of movies, books, politics, religion, language, music from a libertarian perspective.
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Still the Same after 70 Years
Alfred Eisenstaedt, the LIFE photographer famous for his V-J day photo of a sailor kissing a nurse, captured a Border Collie at work on a Connecticut farm in 1940, five years before he took his most famous shot.While these shots aren't as romantic as...
These Dogs Count Sheep!
From Popular Mechanics, September 1947These Dogs Count Sheep!Dewey Jontz' piercing whistle drops Tess instantly no matter what she's doing. He uses spoken commands, too, in ordering his canine "hired hand" to help with the chores.During field test th...
Too Many Working Dogs, Too Little Work
From Donald McCaig's The Dog Wars, you'd swear that there were too few working dogs and too much work to do, thus the dire need to "save" the entire breed (all 35,000 new puppies per year) to preserve the working ability only.But it's not really so, ...
A Dying Breed
Dublin has always loved the Frisbee, originally uploaded by AstraeanBorderCollies.It's easy for a young man like myself to surmise that sheep trialers are on whole an aged, if not aging breed. Their ranks are filled with people my parent's age and ol...
A Breed Apart II
The culmination of the previous post is this statement:Our phylogenetic, clustering, and principal components analyses all suggest a genetic split within the breed between working and show Border Collies that is probably as large as the genetic dista...
A Breed Apart I
Those of us in Border Collies have long known that they're in a class by themselves in the arenas of intelligence, agility, drive, and trainability. They're different than other dogs and that difference is often wide. And we know that the difference ...
Barbie Collies Can Herd, Really
reprinted, slightly revised (anonymized) from orignal post 9/14/07** Some Names and Images Changed to Protect the Innocent **The end is nigh. The apocalypse is upon is. Pigs are flying and they are playing hockey in hell. A "barbie" collie won a USBC...
Sheeple Admit They're Hobbyists
Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:15 am But on the serious side of all af this, if mr kensmuir will allow, my take on all of this point earning, title seeking, usbcha presidential wantings,akc titles, best cowdog, greatest stockman, novice ribbons earning, sheepdo...
Too many working dogs, too little work
From Donald McCaig's The Dog Wars, you'd swear that there were too few working dogs and too much work to do, thus the dire need to "save" the entire breed (all 35,000 new puppies per year) to preserve the working ability only.But it's not really so, ...
McCaig Visits Border Wars
Donald McCaig paid Border Wars a visit recently, but he left his comment on my very first post where no one is likely to read it. So here it is: donald mccaig said... ...
It's Hard To Be Humble
I just ran across this hilarious take on an unnamed Canadian sheeple (or would the singular be sheeperson?) and their bumper stickers. The full post is here. R-rated excerpt below.I'm in my car, sitting in traffic, and I notice the rig in front of me...
