I’m nearly finished with Pat Shipman’s book ‘The Invaders‘ and thought about writing something on it; during the preliminary research I came across Kevin Behan’s take on this book. His post is the usual pseudo-science babble and mystical energy nonsense but one part caught my attention for its brazen dismissal of well documented history. Behan…
“Low to ground, long in body and short of leg” – AKC Dachshund breed standard Few studies are quickly explained with 3 graphs, this is one of them. It also neatly illustrates one problem associated with arbitrary exaggeration of certain traits. Interested in determining how relative back length is related to Intervertebral disc extrusion risk…
The Orthopedic Foundation for Animals reports 1.5% of screened flat-coated retrievers are affected with luxating patellas. With this number in mind I was surprised at the high incidence of patellar luxation (PL) in Dutch flat-coated retrievers but also encouraged with the progress made in such a short time – a reduction to 18% from 28%…
I am an occasional visitor to the Natural Dog Training (is there such a thing as Supernatural Dog Training?) blog authored by snake-oil salesman and new-age mystic Kevin Behan. Reading the blog is amusing and infuriating. I find it painful to see him lie to readers and distort the latest science story to support the sales his energy…
To my surprise an old post has received over 4200 views in the last two days. Probably because of the pictures included. Looks like it’s hard to argue breed “improvement” when you can see the before and after pictures. A repost with the addition of two skulls for those who missed the original post.
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