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The Deaf Mute Blind and Lame Sheltie
Posted on November 6, 2011 | 10 CommentsThe blog got a nice shout out in the comments of a recent post at Pharyngula: “Written by a border collie owner who is interested in and actually understands a... -
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... -
Morals for Public Consumption
Posted on September 29, 2011 | 54 CommentsPatrick Burns is a two-faced dog who is trying very hard to publicly convince his readers that he lives close to his moral code, but in the honesty of private communication he...
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