Comments on: Dog World Feature http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html A Border Collie Manifesto Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html#comment-4210 Christopher Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:33:34 +0000 http://astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html#comment-4210 It has long been *stated* that Queen Victoria was some great patron of the Rough/Smooth Collie, but the evidence is scant and I've written quite a lot about it. Find me a photo of her with one, perhaps a painting. It has long been *stated* that Queen Victoria was some great patron of the Rough/Smooth Collie, but the evidence is scant and I’ve written quite a lot about it. Find me a photo of her with one, perhaps a painting.

]]> By: CindyD http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html#comment-4207 CindyD Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:06:45 +0000 http://astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html#comment-4207 That is debatable.  It has long been believed that she had Collies (aka Scotch Collie, Smooth Sheep Dog, Shepherd Dog, Cur Dog, Ban Dog, Coalie, Colley, etc.) , a breed that has existed for hundreds of years.  And, then came the working sheepdog, later to be called the Border Collie.  Queen Victoria had many breeds of dogs, one of her facorites being a soaniel named Dash.  B ut, it is iften felt that her favorite breed was the Collie that her patronage helped to make them fashionable in Victorian times, and since... A few believe that they were all one and the same breed at one time.  Perhaps the upstanding, loose-eyed Scotch Collie beget a strain of slinking, strong-eyed dogs presenting with birddog-like stalking (as in the setter and pointer).  These behaviors specific to the Border Collie (certain stalking behaviors above and beyond what is typical of other carnivores such as the wolf, leopard, or even the house cat), obsessing over a shadow, a falling leaf ad infinitum, and so forth) is abnormal behavior ow coveted by the trial fraternity.  What do we think of a human who presents the characteristic OCD behaviors?  And, now we perpetuate this in a breed of dog. That is debatable.  It has long been believed that she had Collies (aka Scotch Collie, Smooth Sheep Dog, Shepherd Dog, Cur Dog, Ban Dog, Coalie, Colley, etc.) , a breed that has existed for hundreds of years.  And, then came the working sheepdog, later to be called the Border Collie.  Queen Victoria had many breeds of dogs, one of her facorites being a soaniel named Dash.  B ut, it is iften felt that her favorite breed was the Collie that her patronage helped to make them fashionable in Victorian times, and since…

A few believe that they were all one and the same breed at one time.  Perhaps the upstanding, loose-eyed Scotch Collie beget a strain of slinking, strong-eyed dogs presenting with birddog-like stalking (as in the setter and pointer).  These behaviors specific to the Border Collie (certain stalking behaviors above and beyond what is typical of other carnivores such as the wolf, leopard, or even the house cat), obsessing over a shadow, a falling leaf ad infinitum, and so forth) is abnormal behavior ow coveted by the trial fraternity.  What do we think of a human who presents the characteristic OCD behaviors?  And, now we perpetuate this in a breed of dog.

]]> By: Christopher http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html#comment-3562 Christopher Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:35:12 +0000 http://astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html#comment-3562 I've done several posts on the matter, but this one is the most comprehensive: http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/01/queen-victorias-border-collies.html Search for Victoria at the top for the others. I’ve done several posts on the matter, but this one is the most comprehensive:
http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/01/queen-victorias-border-collies.html

Search for Victoria at the top for the others.

]]> By: Edward Diggs http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html#comment-3561 Edward Diggs Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:03:20 +0000 http://astraean.com/borderwars/2009/03/dog-world-feature.html#comment-3561 I did not know that Queen Victoria's favorite dog was a border collie. I did not know that Queen Victoria’s favorite dog was a border collie.

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