I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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But yes, Yay Happens, there is also a level of learning involved, but without those innate skills that were bred into the dogs over centuries there is no foundation to learn from.
Maybe the future of finding certain species is to find the breeders who participate in the Gun Dog Hunting shows and stuff?! Those instincts are so important! I can't imagine having a retriever that doesn't retrieve or a hound that doesn't track. I can't even wrap my head around that!
I use BCs as the example because they were only recently allowed to join the AKC as a breed because there really is no breed standard for them: breeders were breeding BCs to herd, so they didn't care if BCs were black and white, brown, blue-eyes or amber; they didn't care if the ears were erect for floppy, the fur was long or short, etc. All that mattered was whether they would and could herd.
BCs come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors: http://www.colliecorner.com/01intro.htm but the AKC wants a specific breed standard for them.