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“Health Testing” in Dogs is Limited
Posted on May 18, 2013 | 31 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... -
The Peke Doesn’t Stand a Chance
Posted on February 10, 2013 | 17 CommentsUnlike last year’s Westminster Best in Show Peke, GCH PalaceGarden Malachy, this year’s top winning footstool doesn’t stand a chance at taking home the big prize. Malachy was the #2... -
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... -
No Happy Ending for Blind Dane
Posted on July 27, 2012 | 106 CommentsYou’ll remember the touching story of blind Great Dane Lily and her companion Madison; the news reports were dripping with saccharine anthropomorphisms of how Madison is Lily’s “seeing eye dog”... -
Bananas, Famine, Hoover, Cannibalism, and GMOs
Posted on July 13, 2012 | 11 CommentsRemember when I told you about the ever-popular Banana? Besides being an ironic argument against “intelligent design,” the banana is the most popular fruit in the world, dominating international trade and domestic consumption....









