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Mastino Fails, Owner Wails
Posted on August 23, 2012 | 35 CommentsThis 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 […] -
No Happy Ending for Blind Dane
Posted on July 27, 2012 | 209 CommentsYou’ll remember the touching story of blind Great Dane Lily and her companion Madison; the news reports were dripping with saccharine anthropomorphisms of how Madison is Lily’s “seeing eye dog” […] -
Bananas, Famine, Hoover, Cannibalism, and GMOs
Posted on July 13, 2012 | 11 CommentsRemember when I told you about the ever-popular Banana? Besides being an ironic argument against “intelligent design,” the banana is the most popular fruit in the world, dominating international trade and domestic consumption. […] -
I Homed More Dogs Than PeTA
Posted on July 7, 2012 | 30 CommentsI’m a very small-time hobby breeder of purebred Border Collies–about as small as you can get and still be “a breeder”–yet in 2008 I found more homes for dogs than the […] -
Fancy Mice
Posted on June 23, 2012 | 42 CommentsOn 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 […]