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Don’t Blame BYBs for Dalmatians Either
The reason why numerous breed-in-movie-equals-doom stories persist is the arrogance of breed elitists who lament the idea of the unwashed masses finding out about their precious breed and ruining...
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The Border Collie Bottleneck
Lusia at Lassie Gets Help puts forth Dewi Tweed, the 2010 International Supreme Champion sheep dog as proof that the “genetic bottleneck” in Border Collies is benign or perhaps a myth. Richard...
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AKC: Big Fat Hippocrites
I don’t think it’s really a stretch to say that dog show culture brings out the worst in people. Notions of racial supremacy, blood purity, twisted eugenics, incest, form over function, and...
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Hip Dysplasia an Advantage?
Sheep dog trials probably have no significant selective effect for or against hip dysplasia in Border Collies. Border Collies are the go-to example of a breed that has been honed and improved through a...
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Piled Higher and Deeper
There’s really no excuse for someone who has earned a PhD to be offended at the concept of defending their theses and being held to a standard of evidenced based argumentation and unbiased...
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Would you still do it if no one knew?
Take a moment and ask yourself this question in relation to your dogs: What things would you still do if no one was watching? Would you have gotten a dog from a breeder instead of a shelter if you...
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How Linebreeding Causes Disease Expression
There is no clear separation between inbreeding and linebreeding. Both terms are used to describe having the same ancestor on both the top and bottom of a pedigree (on both the sire and dam side),...
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Wyndlair Double Merle Collie Kennel Closes
Wyndlair Kennels has closed down. They’re the outfit that intentionally bred Merle to Merle in order to create a double merle stud dog named Wyndlair Avalanche “Aidan” that would always pass along...
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Pastoral Big Hats Are Dogmatic Bigots
There’s a lot of symmetry between the Church’s dogmatic and bigoted stand against gay marriage and the sheeple arguments against breeding Border Collies for sport or any other activity save trial...
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Minimum Viable Population: 5,000 Adults
Pandas are one of many endangered species who don’t meet the 5,000 minimum population for long term viability. Dog breeds are not separate species. Still, the majority of the dog fancy behaves and...
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HBO Asks if Dog Breeding is a “Real Sport”
Be sure to catch HBO’S Real Sports with Bryant Gumble tonight as they are doing a segment on the health and ethics of pedigree dog breeding for which Border-Wars was interviewed extensively over the...
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Watch RealSports “Unnatural Selection” on AKC Dogs
If you missed RealSports with Bryant Gumble’s report on the ethics of breeding AKC dogs last night on HBO, fear not! Border-Wars worked with the producers over the last several months to document the...
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Life With Dogs Attacks Dog Breeders
Life With Dogs, whose business model is exploiting animal suffering by aggregating and plagiarizing dog stories that are emotionally manipulative, has come out harshly against dog breeders over a bogus...
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The WarHorn Podcast: Why Border Collies?
Exciting news, Border-Wars fans: Today is the launch of the inaugural episode of The WarHorn, a dog culture podcast! Like the blog, the podcast will tackle dog culture, breeding ethics, and health...
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Dogs Defined by Disease
A sample of dog breeds that are defined by disease. The unending human fascination with novelty is seemingly unhindered by ethics all over the dog breeding world. Not only are there countless examples...
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It’s all in how you train them? Not really.
Celeste nurturing Maximus. He’s a dog because of his nature. He’s a Border Collie because of his nature. He herds things, chases things, is highly attentive to humans and stock because of his nature....
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The Rare Border Collie Mauling
The only thing Dublin mauls are Frisbees. Photo by Amy Irvin. You really don’t hear much about Border Collie maulings against humans. One such incident hit the news recently, so I figure that an...
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How we know Wiston Cap carried Collie Eye Anomaly
In a post from 2010, Through Anomalous Eyes, I exposed how statistical analysis proves the long rumored–and often denied–belief that Wiston Cap, the most popular sire in Border Collie history, carried...
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Hip Dysplasia is Genetics, Not Kibble
If you’re a type 1 Diabetic, do you stop being diabetic if you cut sugar out of your diet? If you have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism or drug addiction, do you prevent having alcoholic...
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Why Dalmatians are a Train Wreck
There’s a lot of blame to go around concerning why Dalmatians are a train wreck of a breed and the favorite targets of such scorn are Disney and Backyard Breeders. Neither of these are responsible...
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