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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 February, 2008
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Signs of the Apocalypse I
Posted on February 11, 2008 | No CommentsDo you know what incompetent educators do when they utterly fail to teach children English in an English speaking country, children of parents who speak no other language? They decide that they’ll elevate the garbage those children do speak to language level and declare victory.... -
On Parvo, Patents, and Press Releases
Posted on February 10, 2008 | No CommentsA self serving press release from Oklahoma State University has the dogblogosphere all aflutter at the “new” killer strain of Parvo. (the press release has been yanked from the OSU site, but Christie over at PetConnection was kind enough to repost it) Turns out that... -
On Thin Ice, Again
Posted on February 7, 2008 | 1 CommentI’m saying this again, because obviously the message didn’t get through the first time. Don’t go out on to the ice after your dog. Only days after my first post, a woman ran after her dog, fell in, and had to be rescued. They both... -
600 Dead Puppies
Posted on February 7, 2008 | 4 CommentsOklahoma State University has discovered over inflated reports old observations that a nasty strain of Parvo has recently jumped the Atlantic Ocean and is now being found unremarkably widespread in the United States. Unlike local strains of Parvo, the Canine Parvo Virus type 2C (CPV-2c)...
Queen Victoria's Border Collies