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• Puppy Coat Color Mystery
• Hip Dysplasia is Genetics, Not Kibble
• Treating Canine Arthritis with Stem Cells
• Zootopia vs. The Jungle Book
• How we know Wiston Cap carried Collie Eye Anomaly
• The Rare Border Collie Mauling
• It’s all in how you train them? Not really.
• The Long and Short of 2014
• Shelters kill. So why call them Shelters?
• Dog Culture is Religion and Politics
• Spoils of the Dog War
• Dogs Defined by Disease
• Dog Days of Summer
• The US Gov’t sucks at Bio-Containment
• Ebola Coming to America? No Thanks!
• Why Border Collies? Transcript and Gallery
• The WarHorn Podcast: Why Border Collies?
• Melatonin + ThunderShirt = Better 4th for Your Fearful Dog
• Life With Dogs Attacks Dog Breeders
• Shepherd’s Dog Remembers the Road
• Shepherd’s Dog Gently Returns the Sheep
• Shepherd’s Dog Dies of Starvation Tending His Charge
• Shepherd’s Dog Whelps While Working
• Shepherd’s Dog: The Cunning of Sheep-Stealing Dogs
• Shepherd’s Dog Takes No Maternity Leave
• Shepherd’s Dog: A Wonderful Sheep-dog
• Shepherd’s Dog Hector Outsmarts His Master
• Shepherd’s Dog Hector Has an Ear for Music
• Shepherd’s Dog Hector Points the Cat
• Shepherd’s Dog: Hector Son of Sirrah
• Shepherd’s Dog Collects the Flock at Midnight
• Shepherd’s Dog Saves Mr. Satterthwaite
• Shepherd’s Dogs from 150 Years Ago
• No “Working” Terriers Hired for Badger Cull
• Celeste Saved a Pirate Queen House Finch
• Historical Videos of Border Collies and Sheep Trials
• Workplace Violence or Terrierism?
• Watch RealSports “Unnatural Selection” on AKC Dogs
• HBO Asks if Dog Breeding is a “Real Sport”
• Happy Easter! Enjoy the Hunt.
• Minimum Viable Population: 5,000 Adults
• Introducing the 2014 Chevy Caprice Hybrid
• Pastoral Big Hats Are Dogmatic Bigots
• Spring Birthdays!
• Wyndlair Double Merle Collie Kennel Closes
• Inbred Crufts Border Collies
• How Linebreeding Causes Disease Expression
• At Least Westminster’s Wire Fox Terrier Isn’t Inbred
• Inbred Border Collies at Westminster
• Would you still do it if no one knew?
• The Hierarchy of Border Collie Smugness
• Welcome Back E-mail Readers
• AKC: Hierarchy of Pedigree Smugness
• Hello Pitty: Hierarchy of Rescue Smugness
• “Wag More, Bark Less” is an Ancient Proverb
• Serial Killer Whale
• Sheepdog Trials Began with Beauty Pageants
• Piled Higher and Deeper
• Hip Dysplasia an Advantage?
• James Dean’s Border Collie
• AKC: Big Fat Hippocrites
• 86 Working Sled Dogs Laid Off, Need Homes
• Hello Pitty: “Own It!”
• The Border Collie Bottleneck
• Dogs Don’t Smile
• Find us at Border-Wars.com
• Misconceptions about Inbred Wolves
• Dad, Dale Carnegie, and Dogs
• Katz Sells His Farm
• Pathological Altruism
• Don’t Blame BYBs for Dalmatians Either
• Dogs Bomb at Cannes Film Festival
• Why Dalmatians are a Train Wreck
• OFA to Rollout Carfax for Dogs
• Don’t Blame Disney for Dalmatians
• Sacred Honor
• Where the Points Don’t Matter
• “Health Testing” in Dogs is Limited
• Luisa, Get Help!
• The U.S. Sheep Industry is Belly-Up
• Bull Dogs: A History of Abuse
• Marathons Are Why We’re Better
• Happy Easter, Bonnie
• Aiding the Enemy or Cleaning House?
• DogTime’s Slobbering Hatred for Breeders III
• DogTime’s Slobbering Hatred for Breeders II
• DogTime’s Slobbering Hatred for Breeders I
• Razvodit and Vodka
• Good-riddance Google
• Confusing Hoarders with Breeders
• Conformation at Westminster
• DogTime Smears No-Kill
• Pit Bull Popularity by State
• Regional Appeal of the AKC and UKC
• Border Collies Bred Like Alaskan Sled Dogs?
• Beware the Ides of February
• No Repeat for Qualzucht Collie
• The Peke Doesn’t Stand a Chance
• As the Toller Burns
• 2012 in Retrospect
• Meet Bear the Border Collie Puppy
• World Class
• Mastino Fails, Owner Wails
• Domesday Reloaded Border Collies
• A Little Frisbee After the Rain
• No Happy Ending for Blind Dane
• A Dark Night
• Hobby, Lifestyle, or Profession?
• Bananas, Famine, Hoover, Cannibalism, and GMOs
• I Homed More Dogs Than PeTA
• Pit Bull Apologetics
• Only 2% of Dogs Die in Shelters Yearly
• Fancy Mice
• OneNationUnderDog: Nothing New
• Problems in Thoroughbreds 1
• The Equestrian Order
• Münchausen by Harley
• KC Bans Merle to Merle Mating
• And Now A Cow
• Frisbees!
• Heterozygoats
• Erma Bombeck’s Neurotic Dog
• A Herd of Super-Dogs
• Removing All Doubt
• Participate in a Canine Behavior Study
• You Can’t Pass A Health Test You Don’t Take
• The Limits of “Health” Testing
• Only the Best Die Young
• Ectropion and the Failed Crufts Dogs
• Round Up Your Mates for a Guinness
• Who Judges the Judges? Vets of Course
• The Chalk Got In Their Eyes
• Crufts’ Best Dogs Fail Vet Checks
• Buy My Dogs a Frisbee
• AKC Gazette: Merle Dilemma
• Grazie Mezzo Milione
• Watch Pedigree Dogs Exposed: Three Years On in America
• Disappearing Ancestors
• Bio-Sensor is Bad Science: Super Dog Failed
• Westminster’s Double Merle Sheltie BOB
• Bio-Sensor is Bad Science: Superdogs Are Made, Not Born
• Rethinking Rocket Science
• Bio-Sensor is Bad Science: True Biosensor
• Odds of a Double Merle Puppy
• The Blind Collies of Westminster
• Westminster Rewards Cruelty
• Double Merle Progeny at Westminster
• February Genetics Quiz Answers
• February Genetics Quiz
• Bunnies Can Herd, Really!
• Gene Therapy “Cures” Dog Blindness Again
• Bio-Sensor is Bad Science: Quackery
• Unexpected Leonberger Diversity
• This Is Not A Pipe
• Usage Drift
• Species Porn
• Those Inbred Lab Mice
• Lessons from Island Wolves
• A Long Tail Cut Short
• An IKEA Dog Bed
• Parasite Breeders
• The Mark of Cain is a Dog
• Like a Bobtail Without an Anus
• Sheer Force of Will
• Without a Tail to Sit On
• The Diving Border Collie
• The Deaf Mute Blind and Lame Sheltie
• The Burden of Blindness
• BCRF: Saoirse Ronan
• Academic Fraud in Toller Research
• COI: How Many Generations are Enough?
• Pedigree Collapse
• Monitoring the Chatter
• When We Look Back
• For Whom the Dog Tolls
• Improve the Breed?
• 2011 National Sheepdog Finals
• For They Know Not What We’ve Done
• Name the Oracle
• The 3 Types of Genetic Inheritance
• BCRF: Michael Keaton
• Hardware and Software
• Complete Dog 1921: The Collie
• Sine Qua Non Dog Disorders
• Mercury the Kangaroo
• Dog vs. Human Anatomy
• £10,000 Pounds Sterling
• Tug, Toss, and Throw
• If thy Collie Eye offends thee
• Torture Breeding
• You Crazy Dog
• A Century of Branding
• Top 100 Pet Blog
• Shoot it in the face!
• Double Merle Breeders: In Their Own Words 2
• Double Merle Breeders: In Their Own Words 1
• The Collie and The Provost
• Something is Rotten in Harlequin Danes
• The Dog Days of Summer
• Telfer’s Border Collies 1943
• Love Them and Leave Them, Italian Style
• Double Merle Breeders Don’t Want You to See This
• Who’s Your Double Merle Daddy?
• No One Asked You, Fat Ass.
• Get Along Little Dogies
• Me Cowboy, You Cowdog
• Wyoming Bound
• Confessions of a Pet Connection Groupie
• Dog Breeds are Closed Populations
• Dwarf Dogs
• Finding Common Ground
• Dirty Dog is Happy Dog
• Grandma Wants Candy
• Celeste Killed the Easter Bunny
• Only 8 Border Collies
• Corgi Flop
• The Unfortunate Case of the Wild Australian Shepherd
• Lethal Semi-Dominant: Bobtail
• Lethal Semi-Dominant: Merle
• Selective Breeding Gone Bad
• Recessive Means Broken
• Stupid, But Will Follow Directions
• 2011 Update
• Vet’s+Best vs. Smelly Dog
• Inbred Mistakes VI
• The German Dog
• The Herding Bulldog
• The Wolf-Like Dog
• The Archetype Dog
• We have no Chihuahuas either.
• Yes! We Have No Bananas
• Popular BC Sire Lines
• They Rent Sheep, Don’t They?
• Tron: Best in Show
• Why do dogs ___ ?
• Brackett’s Formula: Nothing Special
• Brackett’s Formula for Failure
• Uncanny Minor Differences
• The Narcissism Valley
• Frisbee Antics
• The Vanishing American
• The Oven Ate My Turkey
• Reconstructing Wiston
• Virtual Immortality
• Brand-New Old-Time Farm Shepherd Puppies
• The Collie Walk
• Inbred Mistakes V
• Inbred Mistakes IV
• Inbred Mistakes III
• Inbred Mistakes II
• Inbred Mistakes I
• Sacred Honor
• Aspirat Primo Fortuna Labori
• Border Collie and Mii
• Inbreeding is Screwing Yourself
• Through Anomalous Eyes
• Get it off my nose!
• BALL!
• The BC Bottleneck
• Vanquishing the Water Monster
• Doesn’t Fall Far
• Caught in the Act
• Gone But Still Smiling
• TNR Doesn’t Add Up
• And Puppy Dog Tails
• The Heart of Barkness
• The Mara Mystery
• Mercury Puppies at 4 Weeks
• Mercury Rang the Bell
• Kennel, Kibbutz, and Konzentrationslager
• A Family Affair
• We're in DogJoy, TWICE!
• Endings and Beginnings
• Melatonin = Stress-Free 4th of July
• Question & Answer Time
• Pacifist Hypocrite Shopping List
• The Easter EGGEs
• Killing for a Myth
• Juicing The Sheep
• The Dog Illuminati
• Dog World Feature
• Graduation
• Happy Valentine's Day
• An Honest Dog Show
• In Search of the Great American Hero
• The Million Dollar Collie
• Ice, Ice, Baby
• The Dog Toss
• A Dog's Breakfast
• Close But No Collie
• Queen Victoria's Border Collies
• Show Me the Collie
• The Queen and the Collie
• The Victorian Collie Myth
• Breed My Bitch, Please.
• Impending Doom
• A Collie for Barbie
• Feedback
• In the Womb: Dogs
• Dumber than the Average Bear
• The Joke's On Ewe
• 2008 In Review
• Capturing the Spoils
• Spoils of the Dog War
• The Dewclaw Debate
• Police Dog Fail
• All Hail Cesar
• Redemption: Eyes Open and Crying
• The Future Language of Dog
• Killing for a Myth
• The Modern Language of Dog
• Merry Christmas
• The Ancient Language of Dog
• The Third Estate of the Border Collie
• Golden Eyes & Uncle Sam
• A Dog of Virtue
• Pride, Envy, and Greed
• Redemption: First Thoughts
• Still the Same after 70 Years
• More Christmas Lies
• Border Collie Gladiator
• Christmas Lies
• Not the Reason for the Season
• Dogs Work for Man
• These Dogs Count Sheep!
• A Pup-e-Mill
• Only Five Percent
• Cancer Detecting Dogs
• Feel the Love
• CO Humane Society Fraud
• Puppy Parade
• Jiffy the Frozen Pupsicle
• Say, Marimo
• Leave No Dog Behind
• Happy Birthday Puppies
• The Border Collie War: ABCA vs. AKC
• Too Many Working Dogs, Too Little Work
• A Dying Breed
• Garbage In, Garbage Out
• Border Collie Survives 8 Story Fall
• Usage Drift
• Meet Celeste
• Dublin’s Love Children
• The Myth of Christmas Puppies
• The Oven Ate My Turkey
• Follow the Rats
• Bow Beneath the Waves
• Dog Shoots Man
• AKC's Top Ten is Bull
• Show Off Sheep
• Schwarzenegger Wants to Pump You Dry
• A for Effort, C- for Technique
• Genetic Engineering 101
• The Puppy Contract
• Happy Halloween!
• It's Not Rocket Science
• A Hero's Welcome
• War Puppy, Armed and Dangerous
• A Sense for Words
• Embrace Cloning
• A Breed Apart II
• A Breed Apart I
• War Kitten, Armed and Ballistic
• American Idolatry
• Border Collie Who? Are You?
• Out of 100
• On “Hallelujah”
• Pacifist Hypocrite Shopping List
• Poison Prevention
• Ultimate Dog Lover
• Off The Mark
• Textual Analysis 101
• The 8 Signs of Groupthink
• Killing for a Myth
• Parroting PeTA
• Hatred for Winograd
• We Feel Fine
• Memes about Me
• Happy Valentine’s Day
• Buy From A Breeder
• BC/R&F: Viggo Mortensen
• I have to buy WHAT?
• On Parvo, Patents, and Press Releases
• On Thin Ice, Again
• 600 Dead Puppies
• Rabies: Blame Canada
• Heath Ledger, Human Border Collie, Dead
• Grizzly Man Mockumentary
• Anarchists of Puppy-dom
• Photo of the Day: Me at Three
• PeTA Desperate for Attention
• Purina Incredible Dog Challenge 2007
• PeTA’s Deadliest Year
• The Myth of Christmas Puppies
• Final Words of a Dead Soldier
• Barbie Collies Can Herd, Really
• A Year In Review
• BC/R&F: Ellen DeGeneres
• Border Collies of the Rich and Famous
• McCaig’s Advice to Novices
• Sorting Out Animal Acronyms: HSUS
• PeTA Puts Out
• He’s NOT the “Reason for the Season”
• NYT Attack Dog Shot, Dowd Safe
• Redemption: Eyes Open and Crying
• Buy From A Breeder. Never Adopt.
• Adopt A PeTA Pet = Kill 248 More
• Dumb Friends?
• Redemption: First Thoughts
• No One Pays to See the Judge
• PeTA = Knuckledraggers
• Cats Are Evil
• God’s House is His Castle
• Kids These Days
• Meet My Dogs
• G.P.S. Dog Art
• On Thin Ice
• Schadenfreude
• Get a Grip!
• Waterboarding Our Border Collies
• Breeding Ethics 2
• Breeding Ethics 1
• Progressive Now Covers Pets Too
• Bring Military Mascots Home
• No Border Collie Left Behind
• Sheeple Admit They’re Hobbyists
• Too many working dogs, too little work
• McCaig Visits Border Wars
• Mike Rowe Sells KatKrap
• Make My Day or Make Fido Pay?
• Photo of the Day: Celeste
• Third Estate of the Border Collie
• The Modern Language of Dog
• Cruze is cute.
• Don’t Eat the Dog
• Lucky Jack Update
• Japanese Jumping Dogs
• Japanese Humping Dogs
• Unequivocal Spin
• Photo of the Day: Dublin and Celeste
• Don’t Shoot the Dog
• A Dog Named Jeff
• Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs
• An hour of your time
• Dogs and Razvodit
• Dog Sports on TV
• Dilution and Reproduction
• Vodka and Dogs
• Dog Eats Typos
• Razvodit and Vodka
• Where Are They Now? Pt.1
• Photo of the Day: Celeste Puppy
• It’s Hard To Be Humble
• Photo of the Day: Dublin
• Siding with the AKC
• Versatility “Dangerous” to the ABCA?
• Capturing the Spoils
• The Spoils of the Dog War
• How David Slew Goliath, or GO STANFORD!
• McCaig’s Dog Wars: The Bad
• Photo of the Day: Dublin Puppy
• McCaig’s Dog Wars: The Good
• Border Collie Flies High, Lands Hard
• A Dying Breed
• Dog Sports – A Cultural Divide
• Beauty in Taking It Slow
• Sheep Agility
• To Die Like A Dog
• Engine, Brake, Mufflers Required
• A Moment of Silence for Dead Hyphens
• Squirrel Agility Course
• Jailhouse Confessions of a Border Collie
• Border Collie Soliloquy
• R U Smarter than an 8th Grader?
• The AKC is Listening
• The Third Estate of the Border Collie
• Barbie Collies Can Herd?
• Border Collie War: AKC vs. ABCA
• Photo of the Day: CHRIS
• In Search of the Great American Hero
• Photo of the Day: Stanford
• Techies vs. Fuzzies
• Photo of the Day: The Moon
• Everywhere a Confederacy of Dunces
• Photo of the Day: Pulgas Water Temple
• Narcissism and My First F
• Photo of the Day: Colorado
• The Future Language of Dog
• Photo of the Day: Humming Bird
• The Modern Language of Dog
• Photo of the Day: Luftballoon
• The Ancient Language of Dog
• Photo of the Day: Swainson's Hawk
• Border Wars.