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The Burden of Blindness
Posted on October 22, 2011 | 31 CommentsThere are very few homes equipped to adopt one Great Dane, let alone two. Add in advanced age and congenital blindness, and it’s not surprising that the former owners just... -
BCRF: Saoirse Ronan
Posted on October 17, 2011 | 1 CommentSaoirse Ronan is an Oscar-nominated American-Irish actress and rising star in Hollywood famous for her roles in The Lovely Bones, Hanna, and Atonement. She packs a lot of screen presence for... -
Academic Fraud in Toller Research
Posted on October 15, 2011 | 12 CommentsThe 2011 study A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds is a shoddy piece of work and a disgrace to the scientific method. The world-wide population of Cavalier King Charles... -
COI: How Many Generations are Enough?
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 20 CommentsIn her published paper, A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds, Claire Wade would have you believe that looking at 4.1 generations of Toller data is enough to get... -
Pedigree Collapse
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 6 CommentsIt’s common to visualize one’s ancestry as a pyramid with the current individual at the apex descending back across time and generations in an expanding wedge. Every generation has twice the number of... -
Monitoring the Chatter
Posted on October 5, 2011 | 15 CommentsThere’s nothing more rewarding as a blogger than to have a reader use your blog as a resource to add intelligently to a discussion elsewhere on the Internet. BorderWars reader... -
When We Look Back
Posted on October 3, 2011 | 14 CommentsWhen we look back on today’s culture from some point in the future, what will we say? What will we be embarrassed about? What sins will we forgive ourselves for with the... -
For Whom the Dog Tolls
Posted on October 1, 2011 | 9 CommentsNUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS. Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as... -
Improve the Breed?
Posted on September 19, 2011 | 8 CommentsIf 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... -
2011 National Sheepdog Finals
Posted on September 18, 2011 | 6 CommentsToday 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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