Showing posts with label collie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collie. Show all posts
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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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Queen Victoria's Jack Russells

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This post originally appeared on this blog in August 2007 . Queen Victoria put the "royal" into the Royal Society for the Preve...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Dogs Made by the Hand of Man

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A repost from August 2005. The morphological variation within dogs is pretty extreme . The picture, above, is of an English Bulldog , a bre...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

The Pressure of Being a Working Dog

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A young sheltie ties to convince a much larger sheep that it is serious and up to the task. When a working sheep dog moves sheep , he is sai...
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Dogs Shows As Human Failing

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Why Televised Dog Shows Are a Sham The New Republic, 12.14.06, by Sacha Zimmerman. As Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "The world was co...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

A Short History of Dog Training

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People tend to think the way things are done now is how they were done forever. Not entirely so, especially in the arena of dog training....
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

An Ancient Breed of Dog?

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  Genetic research has given legs to something most canine historians knew was true: most breeds are not very old, never mind what Kennel C...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Will Not Work for Food

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Back in 1946, Field and Stream 's Horace Lytle wrote an article noting that Irish Setters were almost completely absent from the huntin...
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Saturday, October 28, 2006

The Kennel Club Wrecks More Than Terriers

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. The Cocker Spaniel was once a fine pocket-sized bird dog, but the show ring emphasis on exaggerated coats has created a dog that cannot ge...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Breed Clubs Do Not Run the AKC: Money Does

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[Permission to cross post. Also see: this related story ] Following the signing of a contract with puppy-mill distributor Petland, the Amer...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Give That Clone a Bone

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Back in 1998 John Sperling decided to clone his dog. Sperling was, at the time, the 79-year old founder of something call the "Univers...
Thursday, December 08, 2005

Canine Genetics Made Easy?

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First we had artificial insemination, then we had artificial insemination with frozen sperm ("pupcicles"), and then we had dogs b...
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The AKC Embraces the Jack Russell

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Conformation for people as well as dogs! Sometime in the late 1990s, following the appearance of Jack Russell Terriers in a host of TV and H...
Saturday, June 04, 2005

AKC: Wrecking More Dogs Than Terriers

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. The Cocker Spaniel was once a fine pocket-sized bird dog, but the show ring emphasis on exagerated coats has created a dog that cannot get...
Sunday, May 15, 2005

A Terrible Beauty: The Ugly Side of Show Dogs

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. It would be nice if I could report to you that everything is different at the AKC , and that the Time magazine article, below, is so...