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Photo of the Day: Me at Three
2008-01-15 07:15:00
Here's a shot of me at three years old, giving authority all the respect it deserves, while strawberry popsicle runs down my chin onto my turtleneck shirt.
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PeTA Desperate for Attention
2008-01-15 06:35:00
In an attempt to deflect attention from recent news reports that they kill over 97% of the pet animals they get their hands on, PeTA is floundering around trying to make other news by latching on to any and every story that is making headlines.They're like sleaze bag attorney Mark Geragos, or quack pop psychologist Dr. Phil chasing after celebrities trying to get their name in the headlines by offering unwanted and ineffectual "expert" advice.What the hell does PeTA have to do with Roger Clemens? Nothing relevant except Roger is in the headlines over possible steroid use and PeTA wants a piece of that action, so they've sent him a letter (one of those open letters where you don't give a crap if the person reads it, you're just trying to get attention).The author, PeTA Assistant Director Dan Shannon tries hard to be funny, but his jokes are about as humorous as PeTA slaughtering 250 healthy pet animals for every 1 they find a home for. Apparently, PeTA thinks that Clemens can mak...
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Purina Incredible Dog Challenge 2007
2008-01-13 22:33:00
The finals of the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge is on TV today and tomorrow. ABC is airing it at 3:00 Mountain in a few minutes and ESPN 2 has it tomorrow at Noon.Scheduled Air TimesIf you miss the full program, Purina as some select videos of the event on their website.Be sure to tune in for Frisbee, Agility, Dock Diving, and more. The best canine athletes in the country go head to head, the pride of the third estate.

PeTA's Deadliest Year
2008-01-11 10:05:00
I told you before about Adopt A PeTA Pet = Kill 9 More, and that was only a month ago based upon then current data documenting PeTA killings up through 2005. Now I'd have to revise that title to read "Adopt A PeTA Pet = Kill 248 More" based upon the release of PeTA's 2006 death toll.In all of 2006, PeTA only rescued 12 .... TWELVE... pets. One pet per month.In that same time, they killed 2,981 companion animals of the 3,061 they took in. That's an adoption rate that is LESS THAN HALF OF ONE PERCENT, and a kill rate that is OVER 97%. It also makes 2006 PeTA's deadliest year yet. They killed 248 pets for every 1 they adopted.This is a horrible update to PeTA's continued pattern of companion animal slaughter, and the only way it could be worse is if PeTA got their hands on more dogs since almost every single dog they do get their hands on is killed.Thanks to Steve over at DoggieNews for bringing this hot off the presses story to my attention.PeTA's Death Toll:PETA Killed 97 Perce...
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The Myth of Christmas Puppies
2008-01-09 08:09:00
The second most popular Christmas meme in the dogblogosphere was discussing Saturnalia and the pagan roots of the holiday celebration; I wrote one, Terrierman wrote two, and Christie kicked off the trend last year with hers. The common message was to expose the weak foundations of popularly held beliefs and shed some light on under-appreciated facts. And Christmas is the holiday of under-appreciated facts (Santa isn't real and it's not Jesus' birthday, sorry).The most popular Christmas meme was "Don't buy Christmas Puppies !" Pet Connection ran a slew of posts on the topic: Holiday shopping season begins, and the puppy-millers are ready!, A pet is not a toy. A pet is not a toy. Rinse. Repeat., As another storm moves in, remember the puppy-mill dogs …, Christmas puppies: Testing my own advice, How to 'save' puppy-mill dogs: Don’t buy them, Christmas adoption bans; followed closely by Lassie Get Help: A dog is not a toy. Also: puppy mills suck.; Champlain Valley Pug Rescue t...
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Final Words of a Dead Soldier
2008-01-05 02:24:00
A soldier and a blogger died yesterday in Iraq. Months ago he prepared for this day by writing his final blog post, to be published only on the event of his death.Few of us think of such things and even fewer prepare. Hardly anyone (less than 30%) has a Last Will and Testament, and just twice that many (about 60%) have some form of Life [should be called Death] Insurance.I've pointed your attention in the direction of one such forward thinker before. Randy Pausch who is dying of terminal pancreatic cancer and whose eloquence and advice given in his last lecture are certainly worth an hour of your time. Randy is still alive, Major Randy Olmstead is not.Professor Pausch speaks quite eloquently on how to achieve goals in life, and Major Olmstead speaks passionately about how to achieve goals in death.His final post is worth a moment of your time and consideration.There are too many people in the world who believe that they know best how people should live their lives, and many of them...
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Barbie Collies Can Herd, Really
2008-01-05 01:00:00
reprinted, slightly revised (anonymized) from orignal post 9/14/07** Some Names and Images Changed to Protect the Innocent **The end is nigh. The apocalypse is upon is. Pigs are flying and they are playing hockey in hell. A "barbie" collie won a USBCHA Open sheep herding trial with 99 out of 100 points. And her coat looked marvelous, absolutely marvelous.Barbie collies are fluffy, conformation-bred, AKC-registered "border collies" that don't work stock because they can't.- Luisa, Lassie Get Help: Barbie collies, bandana collies and the Unexpected Pit BullAs fellow dogblogger and Border Collie 'expert' Luisa points out, "Barbie Collie" is the name that petty sheep people (shall I call them sheeple?) have cleverly given to AKC (read:conformation) border collies to demean them en masse as being hollow headed, shallow, and callow...or at least victims of people who are. Famed Border Collie author and anti-AKC crusader Donald McCaig agrees:I am happy to say that the AKC's virtual Bo...
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A Year In Review
2007-12-31 20:59:00
Since it's fashionable for everyone to get all mathematical and tabulatory at the end of the year, here are some fast stats about the Border Wars Blog:Days in Production: 131Posts: 99+this oneTotal Unique Visitors: 5,500Returning Visitors in December: 300New Visitors in December: 1,000Page Loads in December: 2,000Average Feed Readers/day: 15Here's a graph of the number of people who read my feed each day and who don't count for the site stats since they don't load the hit counter when they read the feed.I know this is nothing impressive, especially since I started a website that would get tens of thousands of unique users per day and had 14,000 active members posting several hundred new threads and generating Gigabytes of traffic on a daily basis. But it's still rather flattering to think that there are, perhaps, twenty people who subscribe to the feed and actually want to be kept apprised of new things I say. I'm sure I'm making a big deal out of those few people, but it's ...
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BC/R&F: Ellen DeGeneres
2007-12-29 07:58:00
For the inaugural Border Collies of the Rich and Famous, I'd like to start with perhaps the most infamous and disastrous (and thankfully former) Border Collie owner:Ellen DeGeneresThere are many reasons to dislike Ellen DeGeneres, and most people do so for all of the wrong ones.Mostly, she's not funny, yet she has no trouble signing TV shows and comedy specials. So I guess I'm out voted on this one.Many hate her for being a lesbian, but come on, she landed Portia de Rossi... one of the most beautiful people alive and a marked improvement over Anne Heche. Detractors of her lifestyle are welcome to not sleep with her and go back to policing their own lives instead of trying to burn sinners at large, lest the light of their own sins draw unwanted attention to their own personal failings. Witch hunts succeed wonderfully in outing sinners, except it's not the witches who are evil, but the peasants carrying the torches.I'll note that the vehemence against celebrity lesbianism seems d...
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Border Collies of the Rich and Famous
2007-12-29 07:55:00
Border Collie Royalty Buddy and KingsleyBorder Collies are an attractive, but not particularly glamorous breed. More rural and suburban than metropolitan and certainly not inner-city urban. They exude a farm and ranch sensibility; are more working class than high class; and no matter how you come by it, they require a good swath of land.It's thus no surprise that they are rarely the dog of choice for the jet set who spend most of their time promoting themselves in the concrete jungle or in cramped limousines and leer jets. A lifestyle devoid of routine and played out in dog-unfriendly places like studios, luxury hotels, and board rooms is not a good fit for the average Border Collie.But despite the difficulties, there are a number of high profile personalities that have made this breed their own, some more successfully than others. From ultra-Conservative to ultra-Liberal, A-list to D-list, and from Royalty to rapscallions, the Border Collie has found its way off the farm and into ...
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McCaig's Advice to Novices
2007-12-28 15:55:00
While the dog sport world might be filled with Gen-X and Yers who make their pets a significant part of their lifestyle, there are also a lot of younger folks involved in animal husbandry. One site that is catering to that market is Dogged Juniors:Dog’ged Juniors is a website for kids who love dogs. Our members come from all over the world, and are involved in mushing, agility, disc, flyball, dock jumping, musical freestyle, herding, search and rescue, obedience, conformation, tracking, volunteering for local shelters, guide dog puppy raising, and more.Our quest is to create positive experiences and support for junior handlers around the world. We are here to make a difference in someone's life. By guiding kids to become more involved with their dogs, not only does the dog's quality of life improve, but so does the kid's. This keeps dogs out of shelters and kids of of trouble. We hope that our members will be involved in training their dogs twenty years down the trail, and if n...
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Sorting Out Animal Acronyms: HSUS
2007-12-28 15:32:00
For being a country of animal owners and lovers, nothing seems more fragmented than the myriad organizations that exist (supposedly) for the benefit of animals, especially pets. Registries, Breed Clubs, Shelters, Rescues, Breeders, Enthusiast Clubs, Activity Clubs and Organizations, and the various Religions that dictate how to breed, socialize, train, buy, sell, feed, groom, provide health care, lose, find, abandon, re-home, and ultimately kill pets.In accordance with the theory of Narcissism of Minor Differences, there is often as much or more fighting between groups and policies that an outsider would find hard to distinguish than there is between groups with opposing values. And certain items that the public would be indifferent to are critical sticking points within the community.Even worse, there is often a huge discrepancy between the public perception of what a group does and stands for and what they actually do. Let's start with the largest groups: HSUS, ASPCA, and PeTA.HS...
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PeTA Puts Out
2007-12-28 13:10:00
You know, I have a pretty good litmus test for a cult: If the existing membership will have sex with potential converts to get them to join: spreading one's legs to spread the word.The "Children of God" or "The Family" cult is perhaps the most infamous purveyor of such religious prostitution. They coined the term "Flirty Fishing" and encouraged their young members to entice new members and pay the bills with sexual favors.It comes as little surprise then that the cult that is PeTA has adopted this very technique to spread their propoganda.A blog for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals noted that sleeping with only fellow vegans means forgoing the opportunity to turn carnivores into vegans by the most powerful recruiting tool available — sex.PETA’s founder and president, Ingrid Newkirk, agrees that vegans smell fresher. (“There’s science to prove it,” she says.) But Newkirk is all about the recruiting, even if it means one convert at a time. “When my staff member...
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He's NOT the "Reason for the Season"
2007-12-25 23:35:00
I have to laugh when people complain each year that Christmas has become so commercial. As if at any time in the past it has not been. And by "at any time" I mean right back to the beginning. While such complainers are just bemoaning their lost youth--an ignorant and happy time when commercialism was magic instead of an annoyance--few realize that Christmas is just one big advertisement and always has been.You have been told that today is the birth day of Christ, that Christ is divine and died for our sins, that he performed feats of magic and is omnipresent. You have also been told that Santa Claus has a workshop staffed with elves on the North Pole and that he flies a magic sleigh powered by reindeer carrying a bag of toys, and is omniscient.Adults who actually believe in one are thought to be certifiably insane, and people who don't believe in the other are heathens and infidels. Such cultural declarations come from a cult that has matured into a religion. How sophisticated.Jesu...
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NYT Attack Dog Shot, Dowd Safe
2007-12-20 07:41:00
As an avid student of the Classics (I studied Latin in High School and was the Colorado President of the Junior Classical League: the largest student organization in the world), I am enamored with all things Roman.Roman advances in culture and technology were brought to the known world at the end of Roman spears, carried by one of the finest militaries in history. And the most elite group of those fighting men was the Praetorian Guard.They were a combination of special forces and elite body guards and were reserved for the most powerful generals in the army. Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Octavian all enjoyed their protection, but it was Octavian (who named himself Augustus when he ascended to Emperor and God) who cleverly employed them off of the battlefield and in the political arena (most notably after Caesar was assassinated in the forum).In our own era, where power is transfered peacefully and the last military coup on our shores lead to the founding of our Nation, you might e...
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Redemption: Eyes Open and Crying
2007-12-18 03:51:00
I'm not a bleeding heart type. Most people would consider me an asshole. I speak my mind, call it like I see it with no regard for PC pleasantries, and I make an effort to clean my own house before I bitch about the filth of others; that is often mistaken as arrogance, condescension, and projecting vibes of superiority. So be it.I don't generally share my feelings outside of my inner circle, and I find strangers and acquaintances gushing their personal feelings and business to me about as tasteful, appropriate, and interesting as them sharing their farts.That being said, Nathan Winograd's Redemption has my eyes watering, my head spinning, and my stomach in knots. What a horrible disillusionment it is to find out that large and powerful organizations with names that include "Humane" and "Prevention of Cruelty" are for the most part apathetic and defeatist butchers who do little more than lecture and kill and cash checks.Now, I realize that my disgust is just about as relevant as a...
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Buy From A Breeder. Never Adopt.
2007-12-17 23:26:00
That's right. I said it. Don't "rescue" your next pet, buy one from a responsible breeder. The "shelter" establishment in this country is a disgrace, filled with wack-job people who kill animals to "save" them. Animals that are only killed because the shelter industry is inept and has betrayed its founding mission to save and re-home animals.They kill because they make the animals sick through sloppy cleaning and poor handling. They kill because they do not want to care for sick animals. They kill because they do not effectively use the Internet and the media to promote their pets. They kill because they think volunteers are more trouble than they are worth, even though those volunteers would help eliminate the "need" for killing. They kill because they don't want a foster care program. They kill because they are only open for adoption when people are at work and families have their children in school. They kill because they discourage visitors with their poor customer service. T...
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Adopt A PeTA Pet = Kill 9 More
2007-12-17 09:47:00
For every pet you adopt from PeTA, PeTA kills 9 more. If you rescued a dog from a PeTA supported shelter, you have supported the needless killing of 9 other animals. That blood is on your hands. If you support PeTA, you are a killer x 9. Pat yourself on the back with your bloody hands for killing so many animals.PeTA's Death Toll:See The ProofPeTA cashes over $30,000,000 (that's thirty million dollars) worth of your checks each year, just so it can kill 9 out of 10 animals it gets its hands on. PeTA doesn't want you to kill FARM animals for your breakfast, lunch, or dinner, but they kill PET animals at breakfast, lunch, and dinner time EVERY DAY.PeTA hates the No-Kill movement. According to PeTA:One of the most popular “no-kill” shelters in the United States spent approximately $9 million last year just to house approximately 1,500 animals, mostly dogs and cats. That $9 million could have sterilized as many as 200,000 dogs and cats, preventing hundreds of thousands of unwante...
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Dumb Friends?
2007-12-17 05:26:00
Back in the day, dumb meant you were unable to speak. Now, it seems like you can't get the dumbest among us to shut up. As I've said before, the fact that our animal companions can not speak for themselves has lead to many wack-jobs who have made it their crusade to speak for them (but strangely not always in the pets' best interest). Well, our dumb--but not stupid--pets have finally been given voice by the clever photomanipulation skills of the folks at PQ DVD.Even cooler, if you fellow bloggers post about it before Chritmas, they'll send you the software to do it yourself for free.So join the meme and let your dogs talk. Send a customized X-mas greeting, tell PeTA to go shove it, or invite your favorite sheeple to an agility tournament. Whatever your pooch is trying to say, this PQ Talking Photo software can make it a reality.Cool beans.
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Redemption: First Thoughts
2007-12-17 02:08:00
I'd heard of Nathan Winograd before Redemption came out, and I even placed that link to his blog on my blogroll before the avalanche of recent blog posts by Pet Connection, Terrierman, Lassie Get Help, Dogged et al hit the presses. But I can't claim early adopter status, or even a great deal of sympathy for or knowledge of his views (yet), all out of ignorance and apathy, not any sort of malice.You see, when I read his name combined with his work in San Francisco, I immediately thought that he must be related to Terry Winograd, one of the best Computer Science professors I had at Stanford. After all, how many Winograds can there be in the bay area, let alone on the Stanford campus; they must be related especially since they have more than a passing resemblance to each other. If Nathan is anything like what I assume is his father, then he must be an engaging speaker with a soft style that belies a razor sharp intellect.I read his online material about feral cat populations at Stanf...
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No One Pays to See the Judge
2007-12-16 07:37:00
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is as polished and talented of a fighter as you may ever see. He is lightning fast with feet as dexterous as his hands. His guard is good, his aim is better, and even when he is showing off he has never been taken to task for it. His fault just might be that there are few other fighters who can bring out his best and give the viewer a truly memorable fight.Ricky Hatton has more drive and heart that most fighters and if he has a fault, it's that he hails from the same island that gave us the Marquess of Queensberry. He really is a "stand-up" fighter, a go-getter, and tenacious. But the style of fighting here in the U.S. is a little more dirty, people get away with more, and being so stand-up just might be a negative. Hatton showed himself to be a class act in the pre-fight hype while Mayweather was an annoying and trashy provocateur.Many fans get off on the trash talk, I'm not one of them. Fighters should make their statements with their fists, not their tongue...
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PeTA = Knuckledraggers
2007-12-15 01:15:00
Two of the most important reasons the human race is still on the planet today are (1) the wearing of animal skins, and (2) the domestication of dogs and other animals; PeTA thinks both are travesties and is doing as much as it can to turn back the clock on both accounts. Lucky for us, they'd have to go back a l-o-n-g way to undo our affinity for fur and furry four-legged friends (and food); and even more fortunate, the target of their new campaign is the Olsen Twins.The greatest environmental challenges our species have survived to date are the mega-colossal volcanic eruption of the Toba caldera in Indonesia 70,000 years ago and the following Ice Age that blanketed the planet 18,000 to 24,000 years ago. The Toba catastrophe (precipitating its own Ice Age) is theorized to have decimated the hominid populations on the planet, wiping out all but 1,000 to 10,000 breeding pairs of our direct ancestors and likewise decimating our hominid cousins the Neanderthals and Homo Erectus.SEVEN h...
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Cats Are Evil
2007-12-14 03:06:00
Cats are the work of the devil. Perhaps they even are the devil.While you often hear of "hell hounds" and "devil dogs," those aloof yet alluring fur balls that allow us to pretend to own them have managed to avoid any sort of association with the fiery pits of hell from whence they came. The slandering of dogs through biased media spin is just one tactic in the feline plot to carry on their nefarious deeds unnoticed.As Verbal said in The Usual Suspects, "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." And Cats have done a smack up job of convincing the world that they aren't Satan's minions. But it's true, and I have proof.Look at these cats, they're adorable, angelic even:But they are the SPAWN OF SATAN! Just turn out the lights and their evil shines through:Back beasts! Back to the pit from whence you came! They might look innocent and white in the shining light of day, but the mark of the beast is on them. And don't think that it's just...
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God's House is His Castle
2007-12-12 17:33:00
Colorado has played host to several newsworthy murderous rampages by young people and breaches of trust and security at community centers where people are meant to feel safe such as schools and places of worship; the Columbine High School massacre being the most memorable, and the dual church shootings being the most recent.Both gunmen in the Columbine massacre, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were the same age as me (now 27), and the lion's share of their victims were my age and a bit younger; the Church gunman, Matthew Murray, was only 3 years younger and would have been a freshmen at the time of the Columbine massacre. His first two victims were also our age.Matthew Murray apparently modeled himself after one of the Columbine shooters:The online threats appear to include whole passages lifted from a manifesto written by Eric Harris, one of the teens who carried out the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School — 13 miles from Murray's hometown.But the makings of these mass murder...
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Bring Military Mascots Home
2007-11-28 08:46:00
One of the laws of nature is that big things generally move slower than small things. So, you know that by the time a big group like SPCA International gets involved with a "bring the dogs home from Iraq" campaign, it's likely that a smaller grassroots group has already been doing it for a long time.Well, Military Mascots appears to be that group. Bonnie Buckley of Massachusetts has been coordinating the effort to send care packages to troops fostering dogs in war zones and help them arrange to bring those dogs back to the U.S. on commercial airlines since June of 2003. Bonnie isn't supporting the wholesale transport of all stray dogs to the US to be worked into our shelter system, instead she acts as a resource for servicemen who want to bring their adopted dogs home with them when they are deployed out of a war zone.This is an impressive undertaking as it requires volunteers to meet the dogs at international customs, re-booking on domestic flights to the final city of destinatio...
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No Border Collie Left Behind
2007-11-26 03:58:00
You know I jest with my "Border Wars" rhetoric, but there is a real war going on with real guns and grenades and casualties, and apparently there are real Border Collie s in the middle of that war. Border Collie s in Baghdad of all places; who would have thought?One such pup is Charlie and this is his story:One night, while on guard duty with the US Armed Forces in Iraq, Sgt. Watson’s squadron returned from patrol with a new buddy. Weak, malnourished, and at death’s door, a black and white puppy had decided to adopt the soldiers of the unit known as Charlie Company. Sgt. Watson wrapped the shivering puppy in a blanket, gave it some clean water, a portion of his own rations, and provided what refuge and comfort he could for a poor life he expected would sadly end in a few days – another innocent life cut short in a harsh and unforgiving environment.But the puppy rallied back, thriving on the care, attention and affection of Sgt. Watson and the members of his platoon. A real survi...
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Sheeple Admit They're Hobbyists
2007-11-24 05:16:00
Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:15 am But on the serious side of all af this, if mr kensmuir will allow, my take on all of this point earning, title seeking, usbcha presidential wantings,akc titles, best cowdog, greatest stockman, novice ribbons earning, sheepdogs are the best, usbcha finals are the ultimate thing, is,,,,,, goddamn everyone it all if it is not all about a border collie dog that can do an honest days work. And that my fine friends is an official position,- Herbert M. HolmesWed Aug 22, 2007 7:26 am"...goddamn everyone it all if it is not all about a border collie dog that can do an honest days work..."I don't think, Hub, that you'll find anyone on this forum disagreeing with that at all.What matters to many of us is how we define an "honest days work".Whether we like the responsibility or not - whether we can make money with them or not - whether we want to isolate certain populations or not - the definition of what our dogs are is currently in our hands. The future of the dogs...

Too many working dogs, too little work
2007-11-24 05:03:00
From Donald McCaig's The Dog Wars, you'd swear that there were too few working dogs and too much work to do, thus the dire need to "save" the entire breed (all 35,000 new puppies per year) to preserve the working ability only.But it's not really so, McCaig admits. In fact, it's the opposite.Donald McCaig sings a different tune when he's talking to fellow sheeple than when he's pleading the case for his cadre's supremacy. This is not a new tactic, one story to the ignorant public, another for the in-the-know hobbyists. Notice how his Dog Wars book talks all about the evils of conformation vs. sheep trials, since it's easy to belittle the pageantry of conformation and it's clearly not work. But he fails to demonize dog sport in the same manner (at least in the book). Dismiss, yes; belittle, certainly; demonize, no.Why? Because it's a hard case to make that Agility is not work. It requires smarts, training, and drive, the only thing missing is the sheep.... and that's not a ...
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McCaig Visits Border Wars
2007-11-24 04:11:00
Donald McCaig paid Border Wars a visit recently, but he left his comment on my very first post where no one is likely to read it. So here it is: donald mccaig said... Dear Readers,While I am disinclined to respond to adverse reviews (I had a long time to write the book, it's your turn to take a shot) this blogger wrote: "What Donald McCaig says is a lie. He himself (along with two-thirds of the field) was beaten by a full fledged AKC conformation dog who is the product of two AKC conformation champions at the USBCHA National Finals last year. "A lie? Shame. While I believe that throwbacks occur and that it takes - best guess -three generations to make show bred sheepdogs useless for sheepwork - only one AKC reg dog (Rose Anderson's) ran in the 2006 finals (wreck-as were mine) and that dog didn't enter the 2007 finals. Will, occasionally such dogs turn up? Yep. But over time the merciless law...
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Mike Rowe Sells KatKrap
2007-11-23 09:52:00
I hate cats. I hate QVC. I quite enjoy Mike Rowe . Here he is in his first really dirty job: trying to sell a plastic crinkle bag with a cat on it for $24.95 on QVC.Most entrepreneurs, inventors, designers, and marketers would KILL for a 3 minute spot on QVC especially for an item that is selling for $25 and couldn't cost 5 cents to make. Knowing that, just imagine the series of really stupid decisions that needed to happen for THIS product to make the cut.Someone had to:think it upcreate prototypesdecide it was a product that American cat owners needed to buyredevelop it for manufacturemarket it to retailers and professional product agentsget a pitch meeting with QVCconvince buyers at QVC to buy a batch of this crapdecide it deserved a whopping 3 minutes on air video tape a cat supposedly enjoying it since they are unable to actually demonstrate this stupid thing in the studio livenotice that the cat doesn't play with it at all or seem to enjoy its crinkle in any waytry and save t...
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