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Bio-Sensor is Bad Science, Part 1
Posted on January 24, 2012 | 30 CommentsDog culture is lazy and unoriginal, and profoundly stagnant. The desire for easy answers, simplistic how-tos and formulas for success is rampant. Just do this one simple thing! Breeders eschew... -
![Nothing says “Happy Father’s Day” like advertising the stud services of a double merle Collie who can produce an all-merle brood [the breeder removed this page. Here is a cache] of...](http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/wyndlair_double_merle_collie_blind-115x115.jpg "Who’s Your Double Merle Daddy?")
Who’s Your Double Merle Daddy?
Posted on June 19, 2011 | 74 CommentsNothing says “Happy Father’s Day” like advertising the stud services of a double merle Collie who can produce an all-merle brood [the breeder removed this page. Here is a cache] of... -
Tron: Best in Show
Posted on December 26, 2010 | 5 CommentsWherein I propose that the Tron films can be read as a metaphor for dog culture and a criticism of the kennel club system. If there was one day of... -
Uncanny Minor Differences
Posted on December 13, 2010 | 38 CommentsAt my very first dog show, my mother and I were watching the Australian Shepherds massing at ringside before their turn to trot around the ring and my mother commented,... -
The Dog Illuminati
Posted on April 2, 2009 | 2 CommentsWho are the 9 people behind “PDEconfidential,” a google group which describes itself as: 9 members, members can post, people can request an invitation to join, only members can read... -
Spoils of the Dog War
Posted on December 30, 2008 | 8 Commentsreprint from 10/7/07 The small elite group of conformation breeders are Platonists; they believe that the substantive reality of Border Collies is only a reflection of a higher truth, and... -
The Third Estate of the Border Collie
Posted on December 23, 2008 | 2 Commentsreprint from 9/16/07 The First Estate of the Border Collie is as a working stock dog. The Second Estate of the Border Collie is as a conformation show dog. The... -
The Border Collie War: ABCA vs. AKC
Posted on December 5, 2008 | 19 CommentsThe most personal border war for me, and the reason this blog is so cleverly named border wars is the battle over the future of the pure bred Border Collie.... -
AKC's Top Ten is Bull
Posted on November 22, 2008 | 6 CommentsEvery year the AKC releases its list of the top ten most popular dog breeds. Changes in this list are quickly picked up and discussed for filler on slow news... -
A Breed Apart II
Posted on September 18, 2008 | 5 CommentsThe culmination of the previous post is this statement: Our phylogenetic, clustering, and principal components analyses all suggest a genetic split within the breed between working and show Border Collies...
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