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Recent Battles
Queen Victoria
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Juicing The Sheep
09 April 2009 11:11 AM | No CommentsThe Journal of Queen Victoria Thursday, October 21, 1868 “Juicing the Sheep“ At a quarter to twelve I drove off with Louise and Leopold in the waggonette up to near the “Bush” (the residence of William Brown, the farmer) to see them “juice the sheep.”...
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Queen Victoria’s Border Collies
26 January 2009 4:40 AM | 18 CommentsFor well over a century the “Collie” name has been co-opted by show breeders who have created a monster whose face looks like a door stop with beady eyes set in triangular slits. These same people have co-opted the notion that Queen Victoria was deeply...
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Show Me the Collie
22 January 2009 3:38 AM | 1 CommentHaving established that Queen Victoria’s direct influence on the proliferation of the show Collie is insubstantial at best, let’s explore what impact the Monarchy may have, in fact, had on the culture of dogs during her reign. Five. If the show Collie owes more to...
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The Queen and the Collie
20 January 2009 2:57 AM | 2 CommentsThe old wisdom on the rise of the show Collie is that Queen Victoria met them on a trip to Scotland in the 1860s, became infatuated, acquired them, sponsored them in shows, bred them, and her abundant trend-setting prowess lead to their bountiful rise to...
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The Victorian Collie Myth
19 January 2009 8:03 PM | 3 CommentsThe prevailing creation myth among show Collie enthusiasts is that Queen Victoria’s infatuation with the breed set the ball in motion, elevating the humble farm dog to aristocratic splendor. Queen Victoria saw her first Collies in the 1860′s, and she enthusiastically began to sponsor them,...
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Juicing The Sheep
Archive for December, 2007
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Adopt A PeTA Pet = Kill 248 More
Posted on December 17, 2007 | 1 CommentUpdate: Now that PeTA’s 2006 records have been released, we can see that for every dog you adopt from PeTA, they kill 248 more, not just 9 more. And they do so at a cost of over $2.5 Million per dog saved, or about $10,000... -
Dumb Friends?
Posted on December 16, 2007 | No CommentsBack in the day, dumb meant you were unable to speak. Now, it seems like you can’t get the dumbest among us to shut up. As I’ve said before, the fact that our animal companions can not speak for themselves has lead to many wack-jobs... -
Redemption: First Thoughts
Posted on December 16, 2007 | No CommentsI’d heard of Nathan Winograd before Redemption came out, and I even placed that link to his blog on my blogroll before the avalanche of recent blog posts by Pet Connection, Terrierman, Lassie Get Help, Dogged et al hit the presses. But I can’t claim... -
No One Pays to See the Judge
Posted on December 15, 2007 | 1 CommentFloyd Mayweather Jr. is as polished and talented of a fighter as you may ever see. He is lightning fast with feet as dexterous as his hands. His guard is good, his aim is better, and even when he is showing off he has never... -
PeTA = Knuckledraggers
Posted on December 14, 2007 | No CommentsTwo of the most important reasons the human race is still on the planet today are (1) the wearing of animal skins, and (2) the domestication of dogs and other animals; PeTA thinks both are travesties and is doing as much as it can to... -
Cats Are Evil
Posted on December 13, 2007 | No CommentsCats are the work of the devil. Perhaps they even are the devil. While you often hear of “hell hounds” and “devil dogs,” those aloof yet alluring fur balls that allow us to pretend to own them have managed to avoid any sort of association... -
God’s House is His Castle
Posted on December 12, 2007 | No CommentsColorado has played host to several newsworthy murderous rampages by young people and breaches of trust and security at community centers where people are meant to feel safe such as schools and places of worship; the Columbine High School massacre being the most memorable, and... -
Kids These Days
Posted on December 12, 2007 | No CommentsI was born on the cusp of Generation X-Y, and while actors and musicians are the only people my age who have so-far managed to reach the high standard of “famous people” on wikipedia, there are a number of more infamous candidates left off that... -
Meet My Dogs
Posted on December 8, 2007 | 2 CommentsBorder Collies are a gift I inherited from my father, and most of my 27 years have been filled with at least one by my side. Measuring my life in dog years is as fitting a benchmark as anything that appears on my resume, transcripts,... -
G.P.S. Dog Art
Posted on December 4, 2007 | 2 CommentsThe Earth itself has long been one of man’s favorite canvases for expressions of art. The most permanent and lasting works are almost universally painted on cave walls, carved into stone, or man-made mountains such as the Chinese and Egyptian and South American pyramids. The...
Queen Victoria's Border Collies