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The Third Estate of the Border Collie
Posted on December 23, 2008 | 2 Commentsreprint from 9/16/07 The First Estate of the Border Collie is as a working stock dog. The Second Estate of the Border Collie is as a conformation show dog. The […] -
The Border Collie War: ABCA vs. AKC
Posted on December 5, 2008 | 26 CommentsThe most personal border war for me, and the reason this blog is so cleverly named border wars is the battle over the future of the pure bred Border Collie. […] -
AKC's Top Ten is Bull
Posted on November 22, 2008 | 6 CommentsEvery year the AKC releases its list of the top ten most popular dog breeds. Changes in this list are quickly picked up and discussed for filler on slow news […] -
A Breed Apart II
Posted on September 18, 2008 | 5 CommentsThe 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 I
Posted on September 18, 2008 | 4 CommentsThose 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 […]