more history is needed for your border collie article

[Carol Hasenberg]

MR. VON LUNEN

 

I read your article in the Oregonian this morning about border collies.  I think you need to delve into the history of herding breeds before you make nominations for the state dog breed.  As I understand it, there are a number of herding breeds today which have common ancestry from the “collie type” dogs of the British Isles.  In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, modern breeds began to emerge from these origins in the locations and environments where they were being used and bred.  Border collies were developed on the English/Scottish border, English shepherds in the Eastern United States, and Australian shepherds in the Western United States.  There are a number of historians of the Australian shepherd breed who can document their dog lineages and types.  Border collies were introduced much later into the area, and although they are an important herding breed today, there are still many working Australian shepherds and breeders in Oregon. 

 

For just a beginning taste of Australian shepherd history, I would refer you to the Mistretta website http://webspace.webring.com/people/gm/mistretta_aussie/ where a history of that Oregon family’s dogs are recounted.  Also probably the most historic breeding family is the Hartnagles of Colorado and here is a link to their history page http://www.lasrocosa.com/history.html. There also have been quite a few history articles about Aussies in the Aussie Times magazine of the Australian Shepherd Club of America (asca.org).  I’m sure they would help you out with your research.  

 

I’m sure Mr. Folck loves his dogs and they are great, but I think that history needs to be corrected here.  I’m a very proud owner of two Aussies and am concerned about the history and future of this wonderful dog breed.

 

Carol Hasenberg

Portland

[Kevin & Janel Hoffmann]

Go get him Carol!!

 

Kevin P. Hoffmann

414 South 17th Street

Philomath, OR 97370

Phone: 541-231-2891

kevinh...@comcast.net

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[raenell doyle]

Well said Carol.
Raenell

[lovea...@yahoo.com]

Well written

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[Bernadette DePiero]

And behind all of your dogs is my Pepe, (CH Las Rocosa Pepe CD, RD-c) who was the first aussie to earn a Ranch Dog title in Oregon.
Bernadette
 

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From: kevinh...@comcast.net
To: holly...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: more history is needed for your border collie article
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:06:23 -0700

[Wendy Kelley]

Good job Carol.  Very well written.

Wendy

 

From: holly...@googlegroups.com [mailto:holly...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Carol Hasenberg
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:00 AM
To: pe...@jvlunen.com
Subject: more history is needed for your border collie article

 

MR. VON LUNEN

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[wendy....@comcast.net]

Carol,

You did an EXCELLENT job of replying to Mr. Von Lunen.  If we want to present our thoughts to some of our legislators, I could help as I am acquainted with some of them (in a pleasant way!)

Let me know what you think!

Wendy :)

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From: "Carol Hasenberg" <csh...@comcast.net>
To: pe...@jvlunen.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:59:34 AM
Subject: more history is needed for your border collie article

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[Treva Hunter]

Greetings all,

While I rarely answer back any of the discussions, it was a pleasure to read Carol's response to the article in the Oregonian. Thanks on behalf all our pups, Carol. Also to their first mom, Bernadette, for the interesting addition about their lineage.

Best to all.
Treva

Copper's mom

PS We are all proud of Copper's brother/sisters/cousins w/ their "show" work; I do enjoy reading about it. Well done!

[Carol Hasenberg]

TREVA

 

Thanks a bunch.  I sent a similar message as well to Gov. Kulongoski and cc’d my original message to Tina Mistretta and the Aussie Times editor.  The second Oregonian article in the opinion page had stated that the governor and one of the state senators were backing this border collie bid.  Personally I think that declaring any particular dog breed the “state dog” is a bit ridiculous.  I just didn’t like the obfuscation of history that occurred in the journalism, or lack of it.

 

csh

 

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