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The U.S. Sheep Industry is Belly-Up

Posted on May 9, 2013 | 14 Comments
There are fewer sheep in America today than there were 200 years ago and one tenth the number of sheep seen at the apex during the 1940s. The wool...
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Domesday Reloaded Border Collies

Posted on August 18, 2012 | 2 Comments
In 1085 William the Conqueror commissioned a survey of England and Wales to “find out what or how much each landholder had in land and livestock, and what it was worth.”...
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2011 National Sheepdog Finals

Posted on September 18, 2011 | 3 Comments
Today is the last day of the 2011 National Sheepdog Finals at the bucolic Strang Ranch in picturesque Carbondale, Colorado. If all goes well the National Finals might return here...
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Aspirat Primo Fortuna Labori

Posted on November 7, 2010 | 15 Comments
The Latin is from Virgil and says, “Fortune smiles upon our first attempt.” Here I’ve collected some photos and videos of the border collie puppies’ first attempts to herd sheep....
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Still the Same after 70 Years

Posted on December 18, 2008 | No Comments
Alfred Eisenstaedt, the LIFE photographer famous for his V-J day photo of a sailor kissing a nurse, captured a Border Collie at work on a Connecticut farm in 1940, five...
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These Dogs Count Sheep!

Posted on December 16, 2008 | No Comments
From Popular Mechanics, September 1947 These Dogs Count Sheep! Dewey Jontz’ piercing whistle drops Tess instantly no matter what she’s doing. He uses spoken commands, too, in ordering his canine...
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A Dying Breed

Posted on December 3, 2008 | No Comments
Dublin has always loved the Frisbee, originally uploaded by AstraeanBorderCollies. It’s easy for a young man like myself to surmise that sheep trialers are on whole an aged, if not...
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Show Off Sheep

Posted on November 22, 2008 | No Comments
Great talent rarely develops in a vacuum, and the greatest achievements of mankind are often the result of solving the greatest challenges. While you might wonder why such an impressive...
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- “Health Testing” in Dogs is Limited (38)
  - Nora: Sorry, Jess, you’re right–I didn’t parse that correctly and tried to correct in my next post, but did not do a good job. You are correct–what would ALSO be a help would be to know something about pedigree,...
  - Jess: You kind of missed my point. Breeders often tout ‘health’ testing as data aggregation. This is one of the reasons they push testing for rare or non-issue diseases so hard, “if you don’t test, you...
  - Nora: Jess–just realized I went slightly off your comment. Yes, a central database–but you wouldn’t necessarily test for or report something unless it was a serious problem that affected whatever you intended to do...
  - Nora: There would have to be an incentive for puppy buyers who don’t intend to breed to have that information recorded, and decent pricing for everyone. I asked the people who bought puppies from me to have them CERFed for my...
- Conformation at Westminster (13)
  - Pam: This is why show people are such a joke to so many… We need to stop taking ourselves so seriously… I love this picture, I was trying to get a picture of the outfit that was worn by at least 5 different people on the...
  - Kali: I saw the wrong spelling before the dresses. Hmm…
- Münchausen by Harley (62)
  - retrieverman: The interesting thing is that Germans are also applying for hunting licenses more than they have in many decades: http://www.dw.de/hunting-in-ge rmany-stealthily-gains-in-popu larity/a-2335758
  - Kali: That the pibble mixed with a pibble? lol
  - retrieverman: Bill Burr said he got a free dog. He didn’t rescue it. His wife said she rescued it, and he said, “You mean you charged through a burning building to save it?”
  - Kali: What about Karma canvassing? You can’t give politicians a worse name than they get themselves.
- The Herding Bulldog (3)
  - Lori Ziemba: Olde Boston Bulldogge first time with sheep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =gm0mNybsORM
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Allied Communication:
- Quote May 25, 2013
  From Michael Gruber's blog, true and witty but not funny:"I don't much like to talk about my work while it's in progress or read reviews or give encouragement to people trying to enter a profession I know to be a miserable way to make a living, with a premature death rate that compares unfavorably to coal mining."That one would rathe […]
  Steve Bodio
- My computer has just had a mental breakdown! May 24, 2013
  Apologies. Actually the blog and webs seem fine. The mail and some other things are off. I get but cannot receive mail (I get large attachments so that is not the trouble). Regular correspondents are being dumped in the spam file. And oddest of all, I can download photos from my camera, but cannot edit or open or export them-- although I can see thumbnails t […]
  Steve Bodio
- Duck video May 24, 2013
  I think this is a young drake. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUECY5Hy9t4?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent&w=500&h=312] Source. […]
  retrieverman
- Gun Quiz Solution May 24, 2013
  It was (obviously?) an 1895 Winchester, most famed as Teddy Roosevelt's lion gun in Africa, using its odd heavy load, the .405 Winchester. It was a relatively strong action, and because it had a box magazine* rather than the typical tubular ones on most leverguns, it could shoot modern spitzer type loads like the .30- 06.But what this specimen looks lik […]
  Steve Bodio
- My mom’s new pet dinosaurs May 24, 2013
  Not very big ones! The wrinkles on my knuckles should give you an idea about scale: Smaller than a can of pop! I had Muscovy ducks as a child, but I know next to nothing about keeping mallards. They are in a brooder right now. It’s very cold here today (in the high 40′s). So they won’t be getting wet any time soon. […]
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- Are they really opposed to the blood purity superstition? May 24, 2013
  It’s well-known that I have my own opposition to religious tenet of blood purity that has unfortunately poisoned so much of dog culture. If it were acceptable that golden retrievers could still be crossed with flat-coats or Labradors and still get the puppies registered with the AKC and the entire FCI system, I’d be all for it. But if you do any crossbreedin […]
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- Wildlife conspiracies and the Dale Gribble School of zoology May 23, 2013
  One of the most interesting things about the American right these days is how openly they embrace all sorts of intrigues and conspiracies. Perhaps the most absurd is the one about the government intentionally causing tornadoes to bring about both socialism and the New World Order! But this stuff is actually old hat. Anyone who has ever followed predator rein […]
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