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“Health Testing” in Dogs is Limited
Posted on May 18, 2013 | 38 Comments“Health testing” is not health testing. It is disease testing. No test will ever tell you that your dog is healthy. Health is more than simply the absence of known... -
DogTime’s Slobbering Hatred for Breeders III
Posted on March 27, 2013 | 52 CommentsTo recap the series so far, we have my rebuttal to DogTime’s EIC Leslie Smith trashing No-Kill, attacking breeders for both making money selling dogs and filling shelters, and an... -
DogTime’s Slobbering Hatred for Breeders II
Posted on March 24, 2013 | 5 CommentsIn the previous two posts in the series, I introduced you to the bigoted anti-breeder and resentful anti-no kill attitude held by DogTime’s editor in chief Leslie Smith. She called her... -
DogTime’s Slobbering Hatred for Breeders I
Posted on March 23, 2013 | 60 CommentsWhen one ventures to reinforce and mock a cliche of another group with broad and unsupportable blanket statements–like the declaration, “There are no responsible breeders”–it helps that one isn’t reinforcing... -
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... -
DogTime Smears No-Kill
Posted on March 12, 2013 | 14 CommentsDogTime is a “vertical media company” that aggregates dog blogs to create traffic based upon this content and then sell advertising to select dog-themed partners. The only compensation most of... -
Border Collies Bred Like Alaskan Sled Dogs?
Posted on March 6, 2013 | 15 CommentsAlaskan sled dogs (often called huskies) are unique in that they are an ad hoc breed–some say type–bred to pull sleds over snow, sans registry, that still exist entirely outside... -
No Repeat for Qualzucht Collie
Posted on February 11, 2013 | 9 CommentsAfter reigning over 2011 as the top Rough Collie in the USA, GCH CH Wyndlair Cherokee Vindication was awarded Best of Breed at last year’s Westminster Dog Show, which I documented... -
Meet Bear the Border Collie Puppy
Posted on December 13, 2012 | 3 CommentsThis is Bear, he just turned 12 weeks old, and he’s now ready for the perfect home to spoil him. Update: Found the perfect home for Bear on some acreage... -
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...









