Showing posts with label Working Dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Working Dog. Show all posts
Sunday, March 10, 2019

Victorian Snobbery on the Animal Estate

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A book worth reading is The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age  by Harriet Ritvo [Harvard University ...
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Sunday, March 03, 2019

The Strange Fruit of Class Warfare

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In The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age,  author Harriet Ritvo [Harvard University Press, 1989 ] poi...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Science Remakes the Dog

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An article, from the November 1936 issue of Popular Science magazine is a good representative of the kind of congratulatory back-patti...
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Friday, July 07, 2017

If John Russell Were Alive Today ...

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A lot of time and energy is spent by people on the show ring circuit culling through pedigrees counting the number of "champions...
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Thursday, April 20, 2017

When Breeds are Failures

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Art by Kevin Brockbank for Dogs Today (May 2010 issue) Is it time to thin the herd? It's been said that the dog is the most succes...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Pretenders and Fantasists at Westminster

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What you see, in the picture above, is true inbred thinking . This German Shepherd -- the winner of the Westminster Dog Show -- is sta...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Terriers for Sale: Pets, Rosettes and Workers All

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Legendary terriermen ? Certainly! Were they selling legendary dogs? Perhaps. Perhaps not. If a dog is excellent at age two and hal...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

The Cesky Terrier: Another Failed Breed

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The Cesky terrier was created by a   Czechoslovakian dog breeder with an experise in the genetics of inherited coat colors and types....
Monday, January 12, 2015

Cracking Tired Chestnuts About Form and Function

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Red fox taxidermy mannequins. There is no red fox taxidermy mannequin anywhere in the world that has a chest span of greater than 14 inche...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

A Wrench that Doesn't Fit

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Dog histories are always an interesting thing , as are breed standards and the all-breed dog books. I have found that all of these th...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Transvestite Terriers of Westminster

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"No working terrier has ever been created by the Kennel Club, but every working terrier breed that has been drawn in, has been destro...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

American Working Terriers on Kindle and Nook

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Price: $15.00 Download immediately and feel free to Facebook it! . Practical, common sense, terrier work for the beginner , laid out in...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Heinemann and Russell

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Some people assert their dogs are "descended directly from the reverend John Russell's Trump through Arthur Heinemann." In ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Working Terriers at the Tar Pit

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The article, below, is my submission for the June issue of Dogs Today . The art by the always wonderful Kevin Brockbank It seems that m...
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