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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... -
A Long Tail Cut Short
Posted on December 17, 2011 | 9 CommentsIn Without a Tail to Sit On I laid out the current body of evidence regarding deleterious health effects of the Bobtail gene and in the Like a Bobtail Without... -
Parasite Breeders
Posted on December 10, 2011 | 10 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... -
Like a Bobtail Without an Anus
Posted on November 25, 2011 | 83 CommentsIn a previous post I spoke about new research making Dr. Bruce Cattanach’s old understanding of the Bobtail Gene obsolete and reopening the debate about the ethics of this gene... -
![I am somewhat amazed at the positive responses to this [Toller x Aussie] cross. I have had 20 years of vitriol against my Corgi x Boxer cross for every reason...](http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/homozygous_nbt_bobtail_puppy-115x115.jpg "Without a Tail to Sit On")
Without a Tail to Sit On
Posted on November 17, 2011 | 29 CommentsI am somewhat amazed at the positive responses to this [Toller x Aussie] cross. I have had 20 years of vitriol against my Corgi x Boxer cross for every reason... -
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... -
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... -
Name the Oracle
Posted on September 9, 2011 | 8 CommentsRead the following blurb, determine who the critic writer/journalist/filmmaker in question is, and make an educated guess on when the article describing this critic’s efforts was written. An institution founded... -
Sine Qua Non Dog Disorders
Posted on August 13, 2011 | 30 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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