Sometimes my spam filter “eats” comments, so I make it a habit to check my spam filter every couple of days to see if anything has been sent to comment purgatory.
I’ve got a few things planned for this blog in the next few weeks.
I’m going to recount the history of the origins of the golden retriever again. I will probably do it in daily installments.
The reason why I am doing the rewrite is because I don’t think the early ones were as good as they need to be.
Plus, I don’t think my newer readers have read them before.
I’m going to start with a general history of the retriever dog. This origins story will be followed by a general history of the wavy-coated retriever, which then will be followed by the development of golden and flat-coated retrievers. It is impossible to write a good analysis of the history of one retriever breed without considering how it fits into the whole.
I hope you don’t mind that these posts will appear to be repetitions of earlier posts, but it is the only way I can really do these posts any justice.
It will probably take me until the end of the month until I get finished.
As for my non-retriever-owning readers, I promise to have no more than one post on this topic per day.
When my counter resets at 7 P.M. Eastern tomorrow, this retooled series will start.
However, if you don’t want me to do this again, I will simply leave this story alone. (Well, I mean I’ll just occasionally mention it.)
My review of Jon Franklin’s The Wolf in the Parlor is in the November/December 2009 issue of The Bark.
Yes, I’ve been published in a real dog magazine.
