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  • The culmination of the previous post is this statement: Our phylogenetic, clustering, and principal components analyses all suggest a genetic split within the breed between working and show Border Collies […]

    A Breed Apart II

    Posted on September 18, 2008 | 5 Comments
    The culmination of the previous post is this statement: Our phylogenetic, clustering, and principal components analyses all suggest a genetic split within the breed between working and show Border Collies […]

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  • Those of us in Border Collies have long known that they’re in a class by themselves in the arenas of intelligence, agility, drive, and trainability. They’re different from other dogs […]

    A Breed Apart I

    Posted on September 18, 2008 | 4 Comments
    Those of us in Border Collies have long known that they’re in a class by themselves in the arenas of intelligence, agility, drive, and trainability. They’re different from other dogs […]

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  • And now for an important message from the galactic empire: .. I love the concept of “war kittens.” I mean, just sit and think about it for a while. W-a-r […]

    War Kitten, Armed and Ballistic

    Posted on April 23, 2008 | 7 Comments
    And now for an important message from the galactic empire: .. I love the concept of “war kittens.” I mean, just sit and think about it for a while. W-a-r […]

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  • If you consider “America” to mean twelve year old girls who can text message on a cell phone faster than you can type on a keyboard and who can hit […]

    American Idolatry

    Posted on April 13, 2008 | 8 Comments
    If you consider “America” to mean twelve year old girls who can text message on a cell phone faster than you can type on a keyboard and who can hit […]

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  • The people at Dogster have no clue about Border Collies. In one of those “answer some questions about yourself and we’ll tell you what cliché you are (replete with photo […]

    Border Collie Who? Are You?

    Posted on April 2, 2008 | 15 Comments
    The people at Dogster have no clue about Border Collies. In one of those “answer some questions about yourself and we’ll tell you what cliché you are (replete with photo […]

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