Archive for September, 2011

Improve the Breed?

Posted on September 19, 2011 | 8 Comments
If the highest and best goal of eugenics is to improve the genetic composition of a breed, what–if anything–can we say has been improved in the pedigree dog in the...
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2011 National Sheepdog Finals

Posted on September 18, 2011 | 3 Comments
Today is the last day of the 2011 National Sheepdog Finals at the bucolic Strang Ranch in picturesque Carbondale, Colorado. If all goes well the National Finals might return here...
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For They Know Not What We’ve Done

Posted on September 12, 2011 | 9 Comments
Dogs forgive us for they know not what we’ve done. It is a blessing that our dogs don’t know how sick they have become at our hands and thus don’t...
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Name the Oracle

Posted on September 9, 2011 | 8 Comments
Read the following blurb, determine who the critic writer/journalist/filmmaker in question is, and make an educated guess on when the article describing this critic’s efforts was written. An institution founded...
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The 3 Types of Genetic Inheritance

Posted on September 1, 2011 | 2 Comments
Dogs, like humans, have three types of genetic code which behave uniquely and can thus have different measures of diversity: autosomes, allosomes, and the mitochondrial chromosome. . Autosomes are all the...
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- What Birds Say June 17, 2013
  From John Wilson :Owes something to There's a Hair in my Dirt I suspect...No water. TWO "meetings' tonight for those of us who want to sit in irritable crowds in the heat and not be able to shower afterward. […]
  Steve Bodio
- Clapton's Guns June 17, 2013
  Apparently Eric Clapton has commissioned and sold more guns than I have (and each and every one was probably worth more than my house). Many articles out there, a few by gunnies, some by folks horrified he would buy guns at all, some just concerned with auction prices. I assume we can all use Google, though I found fewer pix than I had hoped. One of the bet […]
  Steve Bodio
- A book that should be written June 16, 2013
  I often get requests for posts. I usually do my best to meet the request, and when I had more time on my hands, it was usually done within a week of the request. I don’t mind doing posts that readers request. You are the readers, and I’m not writing a diary. However, over the years I have noticed that I do get a lot of requests for posts on the history of […]
  retrieverman
- Clover's litter on a rainy morning June 16, 2013
  I have more photos of the pups on the Nursery Blog […]
  dinsdaledogs
- Baby in da house June 16, 2013
  I had an almost-finished post ranting about the evolution of the human pelvis, but I'm now bored with it. It can be summed up as: human birth is very poorly designed. Happily, both me and my baby survived it mostly intact. The dogs are doing very well with an infant do far: they're acting the exact way they do when I have a foster puppy or kitten […]
  Suzanne
- Smelling June 16, 2013
  But what is she smelling? […]
  retrieverman
- Nature overwhelms June 16, 2013
  This morning I woke up early and went outside. I went without the dog. I wanted to get the drop on the local deer herd, and because these deer worry constantly about the threat of coyote predation, I knew that going out with a big blond wolf probably wouldn’t help my chances. But while I was out stalking the deer this morning, I was overwhelmed. The sun, no […]
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