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shelties are really popular where I live so I see them often, but theres a puppy mill (somehow maintaining a high reputation) a couple hours drive out that originally started off as a sheltie breeder who branched out, so they tend to be a bit *off brand*, as it were
the really impressive bit about shelties is that they seem to want to breed to be anything other than shelties?
you see breeders fighting for their lives (proverbial) to produce in-standard dogs (while keeping recent inbreeding at a respectable level) and making it maybe once or twice a litter, maybe once in a few
but somehow you can still tell a puppy mill dog at first glance
#the puppy mill dog is an oversized leggy prick eared#OR VERY wide-eared dog#often with little or no stop#and round eyes#US puppy mill dogs look straight out of the 70s#but the harder breeders select the more the genetics seem to lean toward all the traits that were introduced but unwanted
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Nvm, THIS is the quintessential sheltie experience
this is the quintessential sheltie experience
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listen i'm a very big fan of common decency and i don't think it requires effort to treat strangers or service workers with respect etc but when i've met assholes with off leash asshole dogs i have only ever been polite and i still think about the time with that asshole guy with the rude dog and the stupid grin. i couldve just walked right up and punched his fucking teeth out. but i didnt. and i regret it so much.
#always be kind etc etc but sometimes#sometimes#this is the sort of behaviour society SHOULD make people feel deep existential shame for but instead its always like harmless sexuality or#like i dont think he shouldve been publicly executed in the village square. but bruises i think wouldve been justified#and i would have felt better.
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sure would be real nice to know why exactly there are two danish-born bitches with identical names born around the same time turning up in both keeshond and sheltie pedigrees back in the 50s
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the weeds have started sprouting, or something
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Arthur Mathiesen's dogs at Løvristen seter, 1910 (digitaltmuseum)
In the bottom photo, Arthur's dogs Spink, Spar, Spott, and Spe, and his wife Cissy's dogs Flare, Fleur, Flott, and Fly.
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My primary stress response is buying 2nd hand harnesses for my dogs
#seleverkstedet trekreg#needs some fine tuning adjustment but i think its a decent fit#except she doesnt need a harness this long because she doesnt pull :))
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(I think it's the tuba in particular but 30 people in uniform marching through the streets is enough to scare most ppl these days)
List of animals Troj finds upsetting, updated 26/3/24:
- whippets
- cats
- basset hounds
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So should i trim behind her ears or nah...
#the answer is nah because its better for her outline to leave it than try to sculpt it#but im thinkin abt the show person i discussed it w last year who said after a few years she gave up and decided to#'see how bad it could possibly get'#and i feel that now. in my soul.
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my favourite is the argument that canine hip dysplasia is a +/- genetic condition and that therefore no dog with any degree of joint abnormality can be ethically bred. i especially like it when coming from some dude who's staunchly refusing to x-ray a single dog and has never submitted a DNA health panel in his entire life
#'you say its hereditary but dont know whats causing it. so there!!'#yea but turns out if you breed hips like any phenotypical trait#its not a *guarantee* that it wont turn up but those that do tend to at least be oddities#MOST moderate-severe HD cases in this breed are by unscored parents. how is that in itself not an argument to test your stock?#at least knowing what you're pairing up?
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- marching bands
List of animals Troj finds upsetting, updated 26/3/24:
- whippets
- cats
- basset hounds
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in may we have the first regional breed special (judged by ottaberry and rowancrest) and then i had a galaxy brain moment and entered her for NKK Bergen as well which im not sure im keen on, but ive never gone to an NKK show (and always wanted to) and it seems a bit silly to drive almost 10hrs to a dog show when i have a showable dog and then not bring the dog. you know? so we'll see.
looks like june for us will be 3 show weekends in a row, ending with the main breed special 💀 honestly i feel silly going around with troj like this because it's not like im doing it to earn ribbons (shes not much of a ribbon dog) but just as an excuse for me to get to go to dog shows
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no, your toxic trait is posting this to instagram as a reel
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