Archive for September, 2007

  • A Dying Breed

    A Dying Breed

    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 older, the best of the best collect more Social Security checks than they...

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  • Dog Sports – A Cultural Divide

    Dog Sports – A Cultural Divide

    David and Kate Marshall are do-it-yourself kind of people. They’ve written several books that allow readers to tell their own autobiography, document their love for their significant other, or even memorialize their pet dogs. Like training guides on the weave polls, the Marshalls’ books encourage...

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  • Beauty in Taking It Slow

    Beauty in Taking It Slow

    The amazing thing about photography is its ability to capture a single infinitesimal moment and allow us to analyze and appreciate that moment for an infinite amount of time. In our daily lives, we rarely experience stimuli that are magnitudes different than normal. We live...

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  • Sheep Agility

    Sheep Agility

    This video opens up the possibility for the ultimate dog sport, surpassing sheep trials, agility, obedience, herding, tracking, flyball, frisbee, you-name-it. Sheep agility. Wherein a human trainer instructs a Border Collie to guide sheep through an agility course. It combines the best of both worlds,...

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  • To Die Like A Dog

    To Die Like A Dog

    Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Mercy is the perfection of love, the most dear of my attributes.- Jesus I was raised Catholic, but I have never believed in the divinity of Jesus, making my name (meaning bearer of Christ) ironic at...

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  • Engine, Brake, Mufflers Required

    Engine, Brake, Mufflers Required

    I always laugh when I’m driving around Colorado and see the signs that say, “Truckers Engine Brake Mufflers Required.” The sign is clearly another example of the Illuminati’s proviso against any sort of punctuation on road signs. I can forgive the missing comma or colon...

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  • A Moment of Silence for Dead Hyphens

    A Moment of Silence for Dead Hyphens

    I quite admire the hyphen, it’s one of my favorite forms of punctuation. It allows me to jockey-together my own grammar and re-spelling, aids in tmesis (that’s a-whole-nother post), and prevents confusion when dealing with ambiguous phrases. The humble hyphen even has its own mascot:...

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  • Squirrel Agility Course

    Squirrel Agility Course

    What, no weave polls? Psh! Squirrel assault course

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  • Jailhouse Confessions of a Border Collie

    Jailhouse Confessions of a Border Collie

    Sally Hull writes a poignant piece where she interviews condemned pets at the pound. One of them is a Border Collie named Popper and this is her interview: The kennel next to Pete’s held a very young looking dog. Pure Border Collie by my guess....

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  • Border Collie Soliloquy

    Border Collie Soliloquy

    BORDER COLLIE SOLILOQUYby Baxter Black Just a word about one of the greatest genetic creations on the face of thisearth . . . the border collie.Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Ableto leap tall fences in a single bound.The dog that...

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