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  • An 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 […]

    Confusing Hoarders with Breeders

    An 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 […]

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  • Unlike 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 […]

    The Peke Doesn’t Stand a Chance

    Unlike 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 […]

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  • Coming soon to the PBS² (Polemics Bashing Shoddy Science) channel, the second season of October 2011’s smash hit As the Toller Burns. Last season on the mostly unscripted reality show staring PhDs documenting […]

    As the Toller Burns

    Coming soon to the PBS² (Polemics Bashing Shoddy Science) channel, the second season of October 2011’s smash hit As the Toller Burns. Last season on the mostly unscripted reality show staring PhDs documenting […]

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  • This 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 […]

    Mastino Fails, Owner Wails

    This 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 […]

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  • On the opposite end of the prestige-cost-difficulty spectrum from Thoroughbreds lies the modest rodents.  There’s no glory to be had in breeding a perfectly shaped rat or mouse–although if you […]

    Fancy Mice

    On the opposite end of the prestige-cost-difficulty spectrum from Thoroughbreds lies the modest rodents.  There’s no glory to be had in breeding a perfectly shaped rat or mouse–although if you […]

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