tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25483899309405131572012-02-16T01:59:01.492-05:00Modern Dog Breeding.thepdkc.blogspotnoreply@blogger.comBlogger781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2548389930940513157.post-79516440135407170152009-12-16T21:45:00.002-05:002009-12-16T22:25:31.914-05:00

16 years before Pedigree Dogs Exposed, there was a cross done in Britain between a Welsh Corgi and a Boxer Dog.The puppies grew up very cute. They had short legs, but not real short like a corgi.Two of these puppies were females with naturally short tails like the Corgi parent. They were bred to a male Boxer dog.One of these 3/4 Boxer, 1/4 Corgi puppies looked like a purebred Boxer (not show

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If a Bigfoot is standing in the road, and its mate walks up to it, are they Bigfoots or Bigfeet?Or would that be the rare case where we could call them Bigfeets?Sasquatch, sasquatchs, Sasquatches, sasquatchz?Big hairy apes? No, that's what you find in bars after work lets out. Like Harry and the Henderson's, no matter how cute they are, you probably shouldn't let them into your car, even if they

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Reading terrierman daily dose, about veterinarians that rip people off:I had a teacher who quoted:"All professions are a conspiracy against the public."When people learn a skill, keep their knowledge among themselves, form unions or professional clubs, and prevent competition through licenses and laws - the public often becomes the sheep they shear.Why would one think there would be whole

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I have watched veterinarians do tail docking and ear cropping (although I am against both).Ear cropping is clearly the worst.I once heard: "All anesthesia is a poison strong enough to knock a dog out. In higher dosages, it can kill. Somewhere between is the balance needed. Use as much as you have to, but not a drop more, because it is a poison, and can permanently damage the internal organs."1.

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One day, I thought up an idea for a dog club based on an event. It wouldn't have been hard to get people to show up for the event with their dogs, and pay to enter, but a club needs at least 3 people as officers, who are trustworthy.I couldn't think of 3 people who I felt were unbiased, honest, and who were into dogs enough to want to join.Deciding that one has to go with the best they have, not

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I use to breed dogs. There are lots of people who use to breed dogs. They got into it, and they got out of it.Naturally, once you breed dogs, you meet other dog breeders, especially if you go to dog shows.This really can make for odd relationships. There are people who always did see other breeders as competitors, no matter how friendly they might seem.Without listing all the tricks, lies,

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I grew up wanting a hawk. I'm not sure why. I just always wanted one. Maybe it was from flying kites? Maybe from the attention that my father gave the rare hawk that might pass by? Maybe from some long forgotten movie or story?Whatever the reason, I wanted to have a hawk when I grew up. Of course, things aren't so simple. Like: if you want a horse, you also want a place to ride your horse.The law

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It is said that the Internet allows information to be passed around. True, but . . .It also lets propaganda get spread around.I hope the people like terrierman (Patrick Burns), Margaret Carter, and Jemima Harrison, will keep telling the truth about what is happening to the canine gene pool, purebred dogs, and at dog shows.I hope that a younger generation will understand not to breed dogs for dog

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The thylacine is not seen anymore, but was found on the island of Tasmania, and was called the Tasmanian Wolf because it looked like a dog, and a Tasmanian Tiger because it was striped like a Tiger.Thylacines were actually a marsupial like the kangaroo, and did, in an even earlier time, live in Australia. Today, the are found in Museums, where they are taxidermied (stuffed mounted skins).Although

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Can you think of a less appealing name for a dog food diet than "barf"?When I first heard about the "barf diet" for dogs, I thought it was a joke.It sounds like anorexic girls puking up their food to try to look like a bean pole.Actually, puppies like to eat puke, it is what wolves feed their young cubs.But the image of feeding your kids good food and them having them puke it up for the dog -

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Did you ever think of vampires as nutritionally challenged individuals living in an era without nutritional supplements?What would a person, a count with wealth eat, if he was dieing of malnutrition?Might a person who found that he could not digest solid food, switch to blood?Cattle or horse blood makes more sense. There is a tribe in Africa, said to only swallow, water, cows milk, and the blood

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I once had two dogs of almost the same age. One was a purebred, the other was from the same father dog, but from a mutt mother, so the puppies were half brother and sister.They were raised in the same environment, I kept them in the same environment.I noticed that the purebred had looser bowel movements. The veterinarian said that some dogs are just looser than others.I switched one of the most

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Sometimes a person will find an amazing fact, and use it to jump to amazing conclusions.Sometimes the jump to conclusions is more like transporting into solid rock.People have made both good and bad out of the study of Pottenger's cats.I found the link on wikipedia, while searching about the barf diet.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Pottenger,_Jr.andhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

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There's a load of stuff posted on dog food. Lots of people will tell you their opinion. But what you need to know WHY a breeder feeds or recommends a certain diet.I was talking to an older breeder of purebred dogs about the health of her chosen breed.She mentioned a few problems, so I asked her about a fatal inherited disease that I had read was common in her breed.She didn't seem to want to

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According to factoidz 1,012,472 animals were used in research laboratories in 2006, this number did NOT include mice rats, and birds.Although I had thought that AWA covered them all, factoidz says no.Factoids also says the 2 biggest funders for this are the National Institute of Health and the Department of Defense.http://factoidz.com/animal-experimentation-is-it-really-neccessaryI have heard

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Well, I wouldn't want a pet FROM at "class A" dealer/breeder.But your pet doesn't want to go TO a "class B" dealer. Better off dead with a quick injection, than living the life of a 'lab rat'. Dogs are often used as 'lab rats' or 'guinea pigs'.People have been trying to stop vivisection from the beginning:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Dog_affairIf you have been reading, you know that one of

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Do you know what is a bigger taboo than exposing those purebred dog breeders like Pedigree Dogs Exposed did?What is more taboo then showing breeding dogs with skulls too small for their brains?What is more taboo than showing English Bulldogs that can't mate without a person helping them?What is more taboo than showing bitches tied in rape stands?Did you learn anything from watching Pedigree Dogs

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For those of you not on the east coast, I can give you a heads up, If you want to watch a bit of pedigree dogs exposed and hear what it being said, there is a piece on it towards the very beginning of the today show in NBC.I don't usually watch morning TV, figured that if it was advertised, it would probably be at the very tail of the show, turned it on after getting coffee, and the pedigree dogs

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Pedigree Dogs Exposed - on TV in America, Thursday Dec 10, 2009. Check local listing to see if it will be on in your area. I heard that it will be on at 7Pm and then repeat later in the evening.If you can't see it on a big screen, you can still watch it on your computer - it is (was?) on YouTube, and terrierman has the links on his blog's front page:http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com

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If you like Pedigree Dogs Exposed, try reading the archives of these two groups - you don't have to join or sign in - they both have open archive, and allow cross-posting:http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/pet-treaty/messageshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/political_dog_law/messagesMuch like Pedigree Dogs Exposed, the archives of both groups are full of posts about the problems within the dog

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Are these useful farmer's dogs, or bloodsport dogs?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baiting click on the wikipedia links to the types of animal baiting.

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Doesn't look like a cattle round up to me.Note the colored rag around one dogs neck. Is this to identify him to bettors? so he won't be confused with other dogs 'rounding up the bull'? Ever notice how many of photos of pit bulls TODAY, still show them with colored neckercheifs?

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Gee, this doesn't look like a bull to me, looks like a tied up donkey on a farm being attacked by a pack of pit bulls.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baitingscroll & click on the type of animal baiting (donkey baiting)

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You can't believe everything you see in paintings or drawing, no matter how old the drawings are. Like, there are painting of unicorns.This is suppose to be of a fight between an elephant, a lion, and a dog.Dead elephant? Really? Perhaps it was to illustrate a symbolic fight between groups whose symbols these animals were?A more realistic fight between dog pack and lion, would show dead dogs.Note

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I like bare dogs more than bear dogs. Flea-less pets have their place - not where it gets cold, but as house dogs, house cats, and house cavies (guinea pigs).I'm not into hunting bear with attack dogs. But I am really not into chained bear fights. Wikipedia says that it is still done in some parts of the world. I'm going to guess that TV, radio, Internet, cheap cell phones, shopping malls, and

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This isn't a fight, it is vivisection as entertainment.Now we know why it is often called "badger drawing" instead of badger-baiting.Drawing like in "drawn and quartered" - and no that doesn't mean they draw a picture of you and give you a free room. It is an extinct torture to death punishment.Note also, that this is a bull terrier, not the regular variety of bulldog or pit bull.Also note the

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I don't think that dogs swimming in a lake can catch wild ducks by out swimming them.However I do know why dogs roll in horrible smelling stuff. I had a dog that would roll in stuff, and I would let her swim in the water to wash it off.She figured out, to roll in duck droppings before getting in the water. At first she would smear her whole body with it, but then she got wiser, and would just

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There is an article on a fighting money who killed dogs under 20 pounds.Quite a read. I won't try to quote it -too long, why should I type any of it, when you can go read the whole thing yourself?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-baitingscroll down and click on mokey baiting.The people are worse than the monkey.

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There are photos of rat pit 'fighting' where dogs are judge by how many rats they can kill in a set amount of time. I have seen photos of pencilled drawings that show the dog killing the rats as they are poured from a sack, as well as ones of rats loose in a pit.The terriers are usually bigger, This one almost looks like a contest of "What's the smallest dog that can kill a rat?"Is that what a

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It is amazing how we can think that we have learned so much when we are 16, and then after many many years more, realize that we still only know bits and pieces of anything.Before I the time that I raised dogs (I don't anymore), I worked with a woman who raised little dogs. She claimed to be very much into animal welfare, and said that her extensive contract was to make sure that the people who

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The one thing I can say about this is that I wouldn't want somebody who has bred Dalmatians for 30 year sto tell me what to do about do breeding (unless, maybe, it was LUA dals).You can read about one of the problems in dalmatian breeding over on:http://darlingyouaredoingitwrong.blogspot.com/(click on Quiz in the left hand column, it is also over on one of the yahoogroups, either Political Dog

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I agree, that the fairest way to reduce the number of dog and cats is to limit the number of unfixed (fertile) dogs or cats to one or two per residence.It is ridiculously unfair to tell pet owners that they must have their puppy operated on, while the dog breeder who sold them the puppy still mass produces more puppies.

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There are reasons to scrap dog shows. Not just that they lead people to breed dogs that win shows instead of breeding dogs that are good with children, or good in the house.But also that dog shows are competitive events. It is not good enough to do well, you have to do best.Only one male and one female of each breed win points in that breed event. The others are losers.People who compete want to

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I really have tried. But I just can't think of any way that dog shows (doggie beauty type shows) can help produce good pets, good working dogs, or anything except more "pageant winners".Can you judge how well a car drives by looking at the color of the seat covers?And I can't find even one dog event that judges dogs by how good they are with children - the trait most wanted.

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Competitive events can help a dog breeder choose dogs that are good at competitive events.To know if a line of dogs are good house dogs, good hunting dogs, or good ranch dogs, it is best to find dogs dogs that live that life.It's not possible to look at a kennel full of dogs of one breed and know, just by looking at them, which dogs herd sheep best, or are best with children,and taking the dogs

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Perhaps one of the best ways for multi breed kennel clubs to deal with dog shows is to devise fun events, and register as "pure professional" litters from all event degree winners who were bred to other event degree holding dogs.For example: If a boxer, who has an advanced obedience degree, is bred with a Doberman who has the same advanced obedience degree, their puppies could be "First

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Oh yes, we were trying to find ways to save dog shows. First reform the standards. Then give each group of dog owners their own kingdom, a sort of breaking up the show breeder monopoly on claiming to be best.We have:1. WORKING. (Their breeds are already developed to specialize in this work.)The Hunters. Their domain is all dogs that hunt.The Ranchers. Their domain is all herding, droving, and

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Over on retrieverman, the post on the talking gorilla KoKo (she uses sign language) got a bit off topic and strayed to global warming. I want to interrupt the series here on thepdkc to comment on global warming.http://retrieverman.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/koko-and-all-ballIs it a good thing, or a bad thing?Depends on if you ask a guy while he is shovelling snow in the winter or while he is mowing

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You don't hear about people being outraged over dogs with kennel syndrome anymore.Is it that people care less about it? Or that they haven't heard about it? Or that we now have it too?I went looking for a link to post, explaining what kennel syndrome was.But the post I found described a different condition, although they called it kennel syndrome.What I am talking about is where the dog was left

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If the standards can't easily be changed, can the judging be changed? Can there be a rule made like the rule that applies to all breeds: "All male dogs must have 2 testicles, fully descended in the scrotum"?Can that universal rule be expanded upon to read things like the dog must be healthy, move well, not have saggy skin, -- not have loose lower lips that cause the saliva to run out of the dogs

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If the standards can be legally be changed, then the answer is easy, re-write the standards.What to change? Want my opinion?Get the breeders themselves to reach that moment of realization where they understand that they have been breeding for harmful mutations.Those breeders who can't understand will have to adjust to "We are all doing it this way now, breed accordingly."What to change in the

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As some of you might have read, people sued when one breed club & the multi-breed kennel club which it belongs to, changed one breed standard.Some dog people are really into the show scene and they don't like changes that put them at a disadvantage or push them out of the game.As far as I know, neither of the clubs had to pay anything out in any settlement, but court battles still cost

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1. Change what the judges give ribbons for.After getting council from lawyers, who don't breed dogs/ have a conflict of interest, plan the changes in what dog show judges look for in dogs.There is no need to get every dog breeder in the country stirred up about this - you know what the vast majority will want - they will want changes that give themselves the best advantage over the other

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For the people in the small upper percentile, who know what the problems in dog breeding are, have some big picture of the situation at the breeder level, AND who care enough to want to improve dog breeding -- but for some reason don't want to send the old structure into the trash bin, I am going to try to write a patch up job.I don't know that it can be done. The world is full of greater minds

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There are major problems in dog breeding.There are puppies being sold with genetic diseases.Puppies are being bred for one purpose but sold for another - bred for the ring, but sold as family pets.Health and temperament are often NOT priorities with show dog breeders.The person producing the puppies (the dog breeder) is often trying to produce traits which the buyers (puppy owners) don't want, or

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One of the best articles on buying a puppy or dog, what NOT to breed dogs for, and a general understanding of the problem. By Time Magazine.And, no, nothing has been done to fix the problems in dog breeding.http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981964,00.htmlA Terrible Beauty.

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You can view these photos of whippet dogs.The first vertical column is of typical whippets.The middle vertical column is of whippets with one normal copy, and one myostatin mutation copy - you see, as is often the case, one trait is NOT recessive to the other, both genes are expressed, and these whippets run faster than other whippets - read from the link.The right-side vertical column are the

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You've seen photos and video of Wendy the Whippet with the mutated "stop code" gene that should (but in her case doesn't) turn off muscle growth?(google: wendy the whippet) - many articles, and photos.You know about the cattle breed, Belgian Blue - they are often shown with their butts shaved. I don't know why, other breeds aren't. Could be that the huge rear muscle prevent the poop from failing

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The whole idea of breeds is silly. It is dog show stuff. It is belief inspired by purebred ideology.Breed dogs for their use. Coat and size are a factor, but not breed.Are your field bred working setters getting too inbred?Why breed them to a bench setter?Breed them to a field bred working pointer.Do you hesitate because then the puppies would have no "purebred papers" and it would be easier to

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Again it is working ability, health, and temperament!!! Degree not pedigree.Do NOT let "looks" crepe into your posts.Who, except dog show people, cares what the details of a dog are? Who cares what a German Shepherd Dog looks like vs what a Dobermann Pinscher looks like?Make breeds by their profession!!Make police dogs, military dogs, personal protection dogs, and shutzhund degreed dogs , all one

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This is an older type of German Shepherd Dog.

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This is an old style Doberman Pincher.Notice how much she looks like the old style German Shepherd Dog?

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It is easy to say "Just spay/neuter your show shepherds, and then buy working shepherds that aren't so extreme", but show breeders breed to win, don't they? so the answer there is to change the judging - or just not have dog shows anymore, they are kind of silly, aren't they?But many dog breeders, who have been at it for a long time, know their personal dog's ancestry like a soap opera fan knows

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There are some hybrid crossbreeds that make sense. But there are some that just don't do it for me.What would you get if you crossed the most popular dog breed in Germany, the German Shepherd Dog, with one of the other popular dogs in that area, the Dachshund (teckel)?If you crossed a German Shepherd Dog that looked like Rin Tin Tin with a teckel, after back-crossing to the German Shepherd Dog,

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Have you had time to think about the colors over in the post on retrieverman about early German Shepherd Dogs?Black, Grizzle, and reddish brown (solid colored or "with tan") andWHITE, white with patches of color, brindle (with or without "tan markings").NOT LISTED: sable, saddleback, mantle coated.What is listed, can you see them one by one in your mind's eye?Can you write out the alleles?Today,

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I once asked a history major why anyone would write a NEW history book? - why not just reprint the old history books? - it's not like history has changed any. His reply was one of my few personal favorites, to quote:"They buy new history books all the time. When a new administration gets in power, they want the books to tell their point of view. ------- work to get into power just so they can

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Just as adults often go for the unusual, children very very often will ignore the normal puppies in a litter and only play with the odd colored puppy or kitten.This is because children have a very hard time learning to distinguish between one puppy and another. Children often look at patched colored puppies and just see them as a bunch of patched colored puppies - they don't remember the shapes

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Over on retrieverman today, he did a very good post on the early German Shepherd dogs. According to the text he quotes, the early German Shepherd Dogs could be:Black, reddish brown, grizzle, or brindle (solid colored or with tan),White, or white with patches of color.What have we got here in genes?Today's German Shepherds come in tan with black saddle or black mantle (and other colors), so the "

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While cat breeds often have the names of fanciful places, they often come from cat breeders, who often keep their cats in cages, basements, garages, barns, or extra rooms. But "Jane Smith's basement cats" doesn't sound like as charming as a tropical isle.As far as I am concerned, dividing cats into separate breeds is ridiculous. They are all one species - the domestic cat. They come in various

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Although many like to think that all the horses on BLM lands are purebred mustangs, SOME of them are half some other breed of horse.This is because some purebred horses were allowed to run loose on BLM lands, like ranchers let cattle run with the horses. Except that other kinds of horses can interbred with mustangs - cattle can not.Myself, I believe that a mix of different genes makes for a

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FOR SALE CHEAP throught the BLM: two tone Mustang with lots of extras.Very fuel efficient, makes its own gas from weeds.

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I like pretty pictures of horses. I love horse photos. But I don't believe in breeding horses just to get more horses that look good in photos.And what is a halter class? It is where a horse is led into the ring, and judged like a dog in a dog show, maybe even less judging, at least the show dogs trot.After explaining how I felt, I asked one person why the show had halter classes? She said it was

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Yes, I know that today, horses are NOT being shot on BLM land - who I was addressing are the people who think we should return to shooting wild horses and burros.Although such people might say "Shoot horses so that the plants can grow better, or so that deer will have more food; the reality is, that if the horses are on land that is leased to cattle ranchers, then the more horses that are gone,

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There was an issue sometime back on one of the list that I sometimes read, about horse meat. You might remember that the US used to have slaughter houses that turned horses into meat for both people and animals to eat.Some people saw nothing wrong with that, other people were upset, but what got my attention was which people were upset by it. Not who I would expect, so I read up on it a

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I found myself not in complete agreement with terrierman on the subject of feral horses and burros on government lands.http://www.terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/Sat. Nov 21, 2009 - "Sheryl Crow is an Idiot"Not that I am going to comment on Sheryl - she can speak for herself - but I do want to speak about animals on public lands.I love natural lands, but life just isn't that simple, and neither is

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When I first got out of high school, I went to hear a Holy man speak. He talked about, how just by breathing, we killed tiny living things, that every step squashed tiny living things. I wanted to know how I could avoid killing these tiny living beings without dieing or being miserable.He said "You can't, but you are automatically forgiven for killing them, because you must do so to survive." At

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Quite sometime back, I first heard about Germany banning pit bulls. Someone who had Internet service in her house had read about it on the Internet, but couldn't provide details as all her information was of the "somebody said that somebody said, that someone else told them" sort.I did NOT have Internet where I lived, and had to go to a public place and use their computers. It was very time

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Most puppies are sold as pets.What does a family need in a pet puppy?A person who wants a working dog is looking for an extreme in behavior - that is a large part of what made the types of dogs what they are.If you want a greyhound, you want a sprinting dog. If you want a tracking hound - you want a dog that will follow his nose for hours.If you want a herding dog, you want a dog with such

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Yes, that is the whole idea.The way we are breeding dogs needs to change with the times - to modernise.It doesn't make sense for a person in an apartment, who never herds sheep, who has only seen sheep out of a car window, or at a fair, to work at producing dogs that herd sheep.Such a person, lacks the knowledge about sheep, which they need to be able to properly control the future of sheep

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If you are going to be a control freak, first make sure that the ideas that you insist upon, are correct.Like, if dog breeders are suppose to kill all the German Shepherd puppies that are born white - then you should be able to show that white puppies are not as good as tan puppies - and plenty of people have kept and bred the white German Shepherd puppies, and they say that their white puppies

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The subject of cross-breeding dogs really gets some purebred dog breeder's leashes all in a snarl.Show Breeders:If it is about doing what YOU want to do - then I guess you can just keep breeding dogs the way you have, although you might want to check out some of the newer ideas, and read about how other people feel about some of the established methods of dog breeding.As the farmer in one of

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Hoarding is only one of the problems.Our society has changed from one where the average person was free to let their dog have a litter of puppies, and where most people got their pet puppy from a mother dog who was a pet, to a society where dog breeding has largely become a business.To keep it a business, people in the business often think they have to prevent the people who buy one of their

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What's a good temperament for a pet dog?Well if the breeder has to keep her dogs each in a separate cage or kennel, then her dogs don't have it.

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There are many things that need to be improved in several sections of dog breeding, I know that, but the one thing that seem to me to be such a no-brainer, that I just can't understand why everybody isn't working on it is - good temperament.Okay, if you want fighting dogs, then you want nasty dogs.But for all the other people out there, health & temperament are it. And temperament is numero uno.

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How many breeds of bird dogs do we need, if each breed has several varieties?Suppose we use the pdkc method of grouping field bred bird dogs? What would we have?BIRD DOGS:1) Curly water dogs2) Spaniels or Rushers3) Pointing dogs4) Retrievers5) Bird TollersYou can change the breed names, a rose by any other name is still a rose.Why the Curly Water Dogs in their own breed? Why not put the Curly

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Retrieverman (Golden Retriever blogger), said the horse has left the barn? Oh yeah, several horses have left their barns!See, if you really want to get into splitting, most breeds haven't spit into TWO camps, they have already split into several camps.It is just that some of the camps are smaller camps, but they have their ardent followers too.There are bird dog people who have split into:1) Show

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