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Dog Food Advertisement FAIL
This a real ad for a real brand of ‘natural, grain-free raw dog food,’ that was prominently featured on a blog I was reading today. The company says, “We named our company after Charles Darwin, whose...
View ArticleThe Limits of Health Testing
Christopher at BorderWars has an excellent post up about the limitations of ‘health testing’ in purebred dogs. Money quotes: There are over 19,300 protein-coding genes in dogs and yet there are fewer...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie, Evolution and Pleiotropy
This post also fits nicely with the previously posted link about health testing. Read it.
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The Afghan Hound as Symbol of Conspicuous Consumption
I regularly troll eBay for images of Afghan hounds, specifically antique pictures. I find a lot of Afghans used in advertising, almost exclusively as a symbol to indicate how upscale a product is, or...
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Tazi, a Journey with the Afghan Hounds
Before you watch this, forget anything you know or think you know regarding Western Afghan hounds. Just throw away all that cultural baggage, and look. This is a teaser trailer for an upcoming...
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Afghan Hound Napkins
It has been a while since I did a vintage post, and I have some stuff piled up. I have no idea what the date is on this one, and it was listed on eBay as a Saluki. No. Afghan. The saying has me rather...
View ArticleMind and Morality
There is a very interesting post on the mind and how it shapes our morality on the Neurologica blog: One of the themes of this blog, reflecting my skeptical philosophy, is that our brains construct...
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Links I Have Found Interesting
Post on the role of little people during the Medieval period. Movies get it wrong. Featuring ‘The Wedding at Cana’ by Paolo Veronese. Note the Salukis: And the wee dog on the table: Guy produces a...
View ArticleI Think That About Sums It Up
Christopher of the BorderWars blog made this comment on the Pedigree Dogs Exposed blog today: Just find it interesting that Jess, Jemima, and I are the only ones who post with our names and links to...
View ArticleLinks I Have Found Interesting
I was going to do these things weekly, but the links piled up too rapidly. “We have about 20,000 protein-coding genes. If you tally up the amount of DNA they constitute, you get less than 3 percent of...
View ArticleLinks I Have Found Interesting
I am having a really crap year so far and I am just not going to do any original material any time soon. Sorry. Killed the blog Facebook page. Comments are off on the blog right now. The tumblr photo...
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40,000 Years of Dogs
I am not even going to make any snarky comments about how young the modern kennel club concept of ‘breed’ is. Nope. Being good and quiet and meek. (From The Genetics of the Dog, edited by Elaine A....
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Links I Have Found Interesting
No gene is an island. Girl cheese. Cheese for girls. The weird world of marketing. How many bouncy balls would you have to drop on someone to kill them? Randomness. We hateses it. Chemicals and cancer,...
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Current State of the Dogverse
I have mostly been posting any dog related things on the Tumblr blog. It’s easier to just post from my iPod (bluetooth keyboard is helpful.) Mio was spayed in March. She had two heats in quick...
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Links I Have Found Interesting, Plus a Bit of Dog Talk
Gozer decided it would be grand idea to develop a tooth abscess last week, so he went in for a cleaning and extraction on Monday. Vet Junior thought he was thin. Gozer is an IG. You can’t see any ribs...
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Sirdar of Ghazni, 1930
Found this on eBay today, thus the watermarks:The back says: Dog show at Olympia, London. Our picture shows Mrs. Amps’ “Sirdar of Ghazni” who won two first prizes in the Afghan Hounds class at the...
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Another Afghan Napkin, 1955
This is from artist Constance Depler’s ‘bar hounds’ series of cocktail napkins. (Does anybody actually use the word ‘cocktails’ any more?) I’m not sure about the connection between Afghans and mint...
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Is a Labradoodle a Mutt? Only if You’re an Asshole
I originally made this comment on Facebook (friend me, it’s all fun and games), but the ‘mutts’ comments are starting to really torque me off, so here’s a slightly expanded version. I always find it...
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My Dearest Readers…
I am told that people do not like the tone of my last article. (Maybe this means these people are assholes and just don’t want to admit it to themselves.) I am honest with myself and freely admit that...
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