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Confusing Hoarders with Breeders
Posted on March 15, 2013 | 60 CommentsAn endemic problem with dog culture is that we are lazily imprecise with our language and willing to throw around very damaging labels where they are not really deserved when... -
Mastino Fails, Owner Wails
Posted on August 23, 2012 | 35 CommentsThis last weekend a Neopolitan Mastiff failed its vet check at the Welsh Kennel Club Championship Show and not a day later the red-in-the-face owner was weeping and slobbering online... -
No Happy Ending for Blind Dane
Posted on July 27, 2012 | 106 CommentsYou’ll remember the touching story of blind Great Dane Lily and her companion Madison; the news reports were dripping with saccharine anthropomorphisms of how Madison is Lily’s “seeing eye dog”... -
Münchausen by Harley
Posted on June 12, 2012 | 62 CommentsAnimal companionship has numerous documented mental and physical health benefits for humans, and in moderation, there is little harm. But moderation is illusive and harm comes when animals are valued for... -
Ectropion and the Failed Crufts Dogs
Posted on March 10, 2012 | 33 CommentsTo the surprise of no one, the Neapolitan Mastiff and the English Mastiff have joined the ranks of failed Best of Breed dogs at this year’s Crufts due to failed... -
Who Judges the Judges? Vets of Course
Posted on March 9, 2012 | 7 CommentsThe response to three dogs so far (and I have money on the Neapolitan Mastiff failing too during tomorrow’s show) being ousted from Crufts has rippled across the Atlantic and... -
The Chalk Got In Their Eyes
Posted on March 9, 2012 | 74 CommentsThe backlash against even the most basic of health demands on Best of Breed winners at Crufts began almost as soon as the independent Veterinarians found visible impediments to the... -
Crufts’ Best Dogs Fail Vet Checks
Posted on March 8, 2012 | 44 CommentsIn response to the groundbreaking Pedigree Dogs Exposed documentary, the British Kennel Club has rolled out a new policy at this year’s Crufts, the largest and most influential dog show... -
Parasite Breeders
Posted on December 10, 2011 | 11 CommentsOh Claire, I’m sorry for all the suffering you’ve experienced in your life. It’s one thing for me to write about qualzucht, torture breeding, and to think and debate about... -
Sine Qua Non Dog Disorders
Posted on August 13, 2011 | 39 CommentsA sine qua non disorder is one that is both universal and definitional within a breed. To remove the genes that cause the trait, disorder, dysfunction, or disease would fundamentally...
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