Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.
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And they tell us that border collies have very little in the way of genetic disorders...
Here are some posts that are worth looking at:
1.http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2010/10/the-bc-bottleneck.html
2.http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2010/10/through-anomalous-eyes.html (Most BC's descend from this dog, whether they from the UK or elsewhere).
3.http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/2010/10/through-anomalous-eyes.html
It is a real shame what happened to Biggles.
Within the BC breed at large, there is kind of denialism about health issues that result from very close line and inbreeding and from the use of just a few stud dogs in any given generation.
They attack the show dogs with almost fanatical religious fervor.
But the refuse to admit that these problem exist within the border collie.
It's a real shame.
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