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£10,000 Pounds Sterling
Posted on August 6, 2011 | 9 CommentsI received an extortion e-mail from Rik and Diane Stirling “Collie Breeders in Minnesota.” They want me to pay over $16,000.00 to them to “license” the images I used in... -
Torture Breeding
Posted on July 30, 2011 | 24 CommentsIt is clearly torture to gouge out an animal’s eyes with a stick, to drill a hole through their backs into their spines, to hobble their legs and stunt their... -
Only 8 Border Collies
Posted on April 21, 2011 | 8 CommentsOver 250,000 Border Collies have been registered with the ISDS since its founding over a century ago even though they didn’t really keep comprehensive stud books in earnest until... -
The Unfortunate Case of the Wild Australian Shepherd
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 77 CommentsThe Australian Shepherd is a breed that has been constructed to maximize two different lethal semi-dominant traits: Merle and Bobtail. Without the careful hand of breeders to prevent Merle x... -
Lethal Semi-Dominant: Bobtail
Posted on March 21, 2011 | 20 CommentsSemi-dominant alleles are those that are less potent in heterozygous form (one copy) than they are in homozygous form (two copies), but which are potent enough to show a difference... -
Lethal Semi-Dominant: Merle
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 40 CommentsWe learned before that recessives are dangerous because when they are doubled up it often means that a vital bodily process is entirely broken leading to disease. Recessive disease is... -
Recessive Means Broken
Posted on March 9, 2011 | 11 CommentsGenes are the blueprint for proteins. An Allele is a variation in the blueprint for a given gene, and while humans and dogs (and all diploid organisms) carry two alleles... -
Inbred Mistakes VI
Posted on February 21, 2011 | 14 CommentsIn this installment of Inbred Mistakes, I take on a highly educated and well respected man of letters who is also an experienced breeder: Dr. Bruce M Cattanach BSc PhD... -
Popular BC Sire Lines
Posted on January 2, 2011 | 7 CommentsIn pedigree analysis, the Sire Line is the singular branch of a family tree that looks only at the transmission of the Y chromosome. Because the sex chromosomes don’t recombine... -
Brackett’s Formula: Nothing Special
Posted on December 18, 2010 | 15 CommentsI established before that Brackett’s formula is a rather non-unique scheme, producing at a minimum a puppy that is 6.25% inbred with the desired ancestor representing 37.5% Blood and a...
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