tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post5102695646583873141..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: Science Remakes the DogPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-66612412663214813322018-02-20T14:04:01.948-05:002018-02-20T14:04:01.948-05:00All goes to show that popular science may not be s...All goes to show that popular science may not be science at all.<br />My mother, born in Minnesota in 1923, bemoamed the way breeds we're changing. Her pet peeves were: 1. Collies were bred for narrow, pointed heads and became useless, brainless, high maintenance creatures. <br />2. Cocker spaniel, once a robust flushing dog, becoming a yapping pest that requires a lot of grooming.Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14389321571689128858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-29405786918405692452013-07-23T20:46:45.546-04:002013-07-23T20:46:45.546-04:00Interesting about the statement that the bulldogs ...Interesting about the statement that the bulldogs short muzzle was so it could breathe while hanging on to the bull. The breed which is bred to hang on without letting go, and still breathe, is the fighting-bred Pit Bull. Medium muzzle length and open nostrils. Even an inch in shortening muzzle is a big effect; the original Australian cattle Dogs were changed and the modern show type has a muzzle about an inch shorter. People tell me the show type cannot withstand heat and activity as well. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01291042500787976168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-25015525192522298752008-01-01T12:10:00.000-05:002008-01-01T12:10:00.000-05:00"Finally, the Afghan is mentioned as a new and exo..."Finally, the Afghan is mentioned as a new and exotic breed brought to America. How long before the show-ring variant was wrecked as a coursing dog? Not long!"<BR/><BR/>What Nightmare said.<BR/><BR/>A lot of us who believe in REAL salukis, tazis, Afghans etc believe them to be one overlapping population or landrace with regional adaptive variations and great genetic diversity, now threatened by the likes of the AKC. Some of us are fighting this but it is a fight, because the closed studbook idiocy prevails everywhere, at least in dogs. (Oddly, not in many other domestic breeds.)<BR/><BR/>Incidentally ALL these variations have "flag" tails even if they live in treeless desert!Steve Bodiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-74595207487813124552007-12-26T16:18:00.000-05:002007-12-26T16:18:00.000-05:00That Afghan hound tail over the bushes thing is ju...That Afghan hound tail over the bushes thing is just one of the many myths made up by the first importers to romanticize the dogs. I have an scan of a British article from 1941 which I find highly entertaining, where the writer accuses the Americans of '"grooming" their Afghans into what are perilously near being caricatures of their race...the Afghan is a rough, tough dog and it was never meant to be what those American photographs depict it as being." Some prophecy, as pretty much all Afghans have been 'groomed ' and bred into something far from the original breed. It can be hard to find an Afghan hound now that isn't a huge, over-angulated hair beast, unless you want to go to Afghanistan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-40351829989011628832007-12-26T13:38:00.000-05:002007-12-26T13:38:00.000-05:00"Breeders of Chesapeake Bay retrievers, desiring t..."Breeders of Chesapeake Bay retrievers, desiring to improve their scent ..."<BR/><BR/>No good. They still smell like wet dog. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com