Comments on: Border Wars. http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2007/08/border-wars.html A Border Collie Manifesto Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:50:58 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: donald mccaig http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2007/08/border-wars.html/comment-page-1#comment-35 donald mccaig Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:48:00 +0000 http://astraean.com/borderwars/2007/08/border-wars.html#comment-35 Dear Readers,<br/>While I am disinclined to respond to adverse reviews (I had a long time to write the book, it's your turn to take a shot) this blogger wrote: "What Donald McCaig says is a lie. He himself (along with two-thirds of the field) was beaten by a full fledged AKC conformation dog who is the product of two AKC conformation champions at the USBCHA National Finals last year. "<br/><br/>A lie? Shame. While I believe that throwbacks occur and that it takes - best guess -three generations to make show bred sheepdogs useless for sheepwork - only one AKC reg dog (Rose Anderson's) ran in the 2006 finals (wreck-as were mine) and that dog didn't enter the 2007 finals. Will, occasionally such dogs turn up? Yep. But over time the merciless laws of genetic selection create the dogs we want - and no other.<br/>We cannot serve two masters.<br/>Donald McCaig Dear Readers,
While I am disinclined to respond to adverse reviews (I had a long time to write the book, it’s your turn to take a shot) this blogger wrote: “What Donald McCaig says is a lie. He himself (along with two-thirds of the field) was beaten by a full fledged AKC conformation dog who is the product of two AKC conformation champions at the USBCHA National Finals last year. “

A lie? Shame. While I believe that throwbacks occur and that it takes – best guess -three generations to make show bred sheepdogs useless for sheepwork – only one AKC reg dog (Rose Anderson’s) ran in the 2006 finals (wreck-as were mine) and that dog didn’t enter the 2007 finals. Will, occasionally such dogs turn up? Yep. But over time the merciless laws of genetic selection create the dogs we want – and no other.
We cannot serve two masters.
Donald McCaig

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