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humanimalia-20155	Theunissen, Bert	“My Kingdom for a Barking Dog!”: A Critical History of Sheepdog Trialling with Border Collies, and Why It Matters to Sheep	2025	48	.pdf	application/pdf	17341	822	62	In addition, gentry landowners regularly provided silver cups worth up to fifteen pounds.74 The Barcrofts’ star dog White Bob earned his owners more than seventy pounds in a single season, and George Barcroft’s total income from prizes and trophies was reported to have amounted to some 2,500 pounds.75 By the 1900s, trial dogs were still diverse in outward appearance, but less so than in the early years, when some dogs were of the bigger drover type, others of the smaller collie type, and still others some- thing beardie-like in between. Furthermore, trial dogs were directed for an important part by gestures, a method that was useless in the misty weather common in the mountains.	cache/humanimalia-20155.pdf	txt/humanimalia-20155.txt