Absolutely not necessary but if anybody has a dollar or two they can chuck in the pot toward me secretly paying for Fart Face's* snip and chip, mom can't pay for it until probably February and he's already seven months old, which is unheard of when it comes to one of our dogs.
(We've never had a dog over the age of six months that hasn't been fixed lmao but Buster was about five months when they got him and they were more worried about getting his weight to his age range. And then Cecil got sick.)
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*if you persist on jumping on the bed to lick your butt you must expect to be called names about it
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The inflammatory tags on that blog post about the auction prices on working Kelpies is funny considering it's difficult to find traditional driving stock-dogs in North America.
When I was looking into adopting a Kelpie or a Heeler as a thru-hiking companion, the farmers just straight up told me the driving lines are being phased out in favour of chute-dogs because trucking cattle is easier (and cheaper) than driving livestock over long distances on horseback or with quads. In large part because the lands are fragmented and one requires permissions to cross locked off parcels of land. Especially with absentee landlords sitting in big cities (eg. New York City, Toronto) and notorious for not answering emails or phone calls. And becoming more difficult every year.
Trying to tie farm-dogs into labour politics of farmhands is nonsensical here.
If you really want to critique agricultural animals being commodified by capitalism, could at least brush up a bit on David Nibert or read any of the eco-Marxist, green anarchist and social ecologist critiques of consumerist animal liberation groups being incomplete in their analyses of animal exploitations.
Better yet bring up how the enclosure of the commons and industrialization of livestock created the modern Border Collie, at the detriment of tenant farmers (eg. the crofters) and the British landrace collies (eg. Welsh collie, Old-Time Scotch Collie, Patagonian Sheepdog) and abroad (in the case of the Swedish Vallhunds and other herding breeds after WW2); or the development of gundogs, leisure class and the landed gentry.
Or even touch on settler-colonialism, displacements of Indigenous people (and Indigenous dogs), loss of knowledge in land stewardships, as well as the effects of cattle and sheep on prairie ecosystems. Or even just the landlordism aspect of big agriculture or the petite bourgeois politics of the small landowners.
Sorry, even working dogs are losing their jobs. There are just so much better anti-capitalist critiques of animal exploitation, landownership, industrial agriculture and privatization of farming operations.
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(Same anon from the hotdogs one with more gay puns cuz Barnaby is a blue dog)
barnaby: “would you rather adopt a normal baby or a matter baby?
howdy: “a matter baby?”
howdy: “what’s the matter baby?”
barnaby: “nothing sugar, what’s the matter with you?”
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I got a commission from @flyingwea for my (delusional) sort of happy slice-of-life hannigram and absolutely LOVE ITTTTT
Super friendly and exceeded my expectations! Go commission him NOW
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It took some searching, but I finally unearthed the trade tokens from my old shop on the bridge. Rather the worse for wear, but still legible!
The lack of small denomination coins at that time made everyday purchases difficult. Traders took it upon themselves to issue farthing (a quarter of a penny) and half-penny tokens to fill the gap.
Shops could give these tokens as change, and would accept other traders’ tokens. Thus, for example, Mister Finch of ‘The Dog’s Head’ might come to me with twenty-four of my half-penny tokens, and redeem them for a shilling.
The practice survived for some several decades until, in 1672, a proclamation was issued by Charles II that copper farthings and halfpence stamped at the Mint would be the only permitted coinage, and the issuing of private tokens largely ceased.
You might be interested to know that the discussion of minting /legal/ small coinage was discussed by the Commonwealth Government — as beneficial to the poor — as early as 1651. Despite this, nothing was done about it. For almost thirty years.
Isn’t history interesting?
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