As I mentioned in my earlier post about the tazi puppies’ first time in the field, they were quite beat by the time we needed to head back to the trucks and got carried back the last little way. Some of us had security blankets when we were little. Roza has a securty chair, that …
Month: September 2006
Defense..
.. of the Pope from some unusual quarters. From the Guardian: “Poor old Pope Benedict XVI (not a description I thought I’d ever use) seems to have inflamed some excitable sections of Muslim opinion around the world with his ruminations to scientists at Regensburg University during his trip to Germany this week.” (Snip) “Benedict’s offence, …
Hunting Post 9- 11
Curmudgeonly writer Dave Petzal, in his “Gun Nut” identity, reminisces about the old days. I might start filing him under “Decline and Fall”: “In the early 1970s, when I began flying to hunt, you could take a rifle on board a plane in a soft case and ask the stewardess (which is what they were …
All Hunters Love to Hunt..
… whether animal or human. Carel gets philosophical with a young animal rights activist over predatory biophilia: “In essence, Tim and his hunter target audience are both motivated by the same animal drive: an innate love and fascination with other animals, that thing that Edward O. Wilson called biophilia, a trait that’s strongest in the …
Wimp World
Chas sent me this article from MacLeans that documents once more what a culture of fearful wimps we are becoming. “Ute Navidi, who heads a British children’s charity called London Play, was walking along a Berlin street, on a break from an international conference, when she stopped to watch a group of primary schoolchildren in …
.. and a “New” Bird
Also from Walter: a beautiful little new bird species from northeastern India, a hard place to get to. (I’d love to). Its name is Liocichla bugunorum, and it looks VERY different from the only other Liocichla in southern Asia (anywhere, I believe), which is found further east and is mostly dark brown.
“New” Wolf
Walter Hingley sent me a story by Philip Lee from the Ottawa Citizen (no link) with fascinating implications: it seems that the big, deer- eating canid of eastern Canada and New England is not a hybrid, as has been routinely claimed, but a third species of “wolf”, counting the coyote (or fourth– it may or …
Back to the Truck
As Plummer is nine years old, my working title for this picture is “Three Middle-aged Guys Headed Back to the Truck.”
Tazi Disposition
It’s obvious from this picture of Connie bonding with the girls that tazis are vicious brutes prone to terrorizing small children and unfit for human companionship.
First Time Out
Hanging out at this blog, I have obviously been reading about and seeing pictures of tazis forever. Finally in Magdalena I got to see and interact with these fascinating dogs and see them in action. We’ve all been looking at pictures of the puppies, so it was a thrill to be able to go out …