She is not getting aerial as fast as I’d like but she is working perfectly with the dogs. Irbis,as befits his youth, stays a respectable distance away. Ataika would rebuke him if he didn’t. Ataika, who knows how to inspire confidence in a bird, gets a lot closer in hope of a tidbit.
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Despite some recent data from Africa, it seems that southeast China still looks to be the most likely point of dog origin. But they might have eaten them at first, as some people there do today. HT Reid. They are looking for the Mongolian Death Worm again. I must say more people THERE believe in …
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Perhaps the ridiculous, the risible, and the maddening first? Che’s daughter poses nude (but armed) for PETA. Copenhagen decides that walking helmets for pedestrians are a good idea. Chas knows who the dope growers despoiling National forests are: it’s those pesky Finns! Scroll down to the second photo. I should probably take this one more …
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From a few overwhelming weeks– broken ribs (now tolerable, but not conducive to much but insomnia) a sick dog (Coronavirus, now totally recovered but scary enough for a midnight emergency run) a sick pigeon, a recalcitrant if friendly hawk (maybe the warm weather is keeping her weight up but I am beginning to think she …
Lane Batot on Trailhounds– Part 3
Once I had decided to keep Notches, the little Black-And-Tan hound, I naturally sought to fulfill my old desire of training a trailhound to pursue a variety of game, as the old time pioneers had done. I knew that with this previously traumatized dog, I would have to proceed slowly and patiently. At first she …
Lane Batot on Trailhounds: Part 2
Although growing up around relatives’ and neighbors’ trailhounds, I did not acquire my own first hound until I was well into my 30’s, and even then, quite by accident. A horribly starved, wretched little Black-And-Tan hound showed up at the place I was employed at the time–a small game farm/zoo in Tennessee, where the bossman …
Heat-treated Tool Stone
We’ve known for quite some time that it wasn’t uncommon for prehistoric peoples to heat-treat their lithic raw material to improve its flaking properties. In fact, I believe W.H. Holmes recognized the practice in some of his pioneering work in lithic studies in the 1890s. It’s been observed ethnographically and assumed archaeologically that raw material …
More on the Murder Hollow Bssetts
David Zincavage takes on Patrick Burns’ seeming complacence over the outrage. Also read the post below for a gut- wrenching description of what might happen to any multiple animal owner. Did you know that PETA’s new slogan is “There are NO good breeders!”
A True Tale of Bureaucracy and Individuals
I posted this as a comment below but decided it could stand as a post. Re “individuals” and beaureaucrats. When Libby was in Bozeman an INDIVIDUAL woman who disapproved of Libby’s keeping company with a hunter (really) got the town to go after our then third dog, as no one could keep three without all …
Another AR Outrage
In Philadelphia, from David Zincavage at Never Yet Melted. He quotes from the Border Collie Bulletin Board: “The local SPCA raided Wendy’s Willard’s kennel where she keeps her Murder Hollow Bassets on Monday night. They arrived with seven trucks and two police cars & informed her that one of her neighbours had complained about noise. …