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Wild Things
Tazi puppies are many things, but rarely restful or peaceable. As Libby says, they are not beginners’ dogs. Though I maintain they are not TOO bad. I know, one was called “The Shredder” and one of my favorites destroyed seven Bonsai plants I had been nursing for years because she was jealous (I watered them) …
Bonus Photo
… from John Brandt’s Horned Giants: Father Anderson Bakewell, S.J., my Explorers Club mentor, with .416 Rigby “Rifle for Heavy Game” and bison from Alaska’s Delta River herd, the northernmost “plains”herd today, though not in the Pleistocene…
Manners
These hounds from about a century ago were more polite than mine (courtesy of James Wayne, who sold us the first Darne shotgun sometime well in… the last century). Click to see properly. Lily the Dachs had, and Warren’s Tazi granddogs show good manners though…
Run
The following will need little comment, but it is unusually illustrative. The little red tazi with the gray face is Larissa, an Almaty dog in origin, Ataika’s daughter and we hope the next mother- to- be. The cream male is Tavi, the intended father, a mix of Kazakh genes and Russian. What to notice is …
Random images from Africa
I’m sorting images from our South Africa trip this summer, and came across a few to share. This is a crested eagle – a species we saw frequently. I’m not positive, but I think this next one is a snake eagle. I snapped this next image in a village shop in Lesotho, and of course …
Was this ever used?!
Sent by Tim Gallagher but origin unknown: a suit for Siberian bear hunting. Two thoughts occur (1) you MUST be joking and (2) a lot of things eat porcupines, some with no ill effects, and leave the burred skin behind…
Belated…
Mini-reviews of new books by Friends- of- Q- Blog, with apologies for now- constant tardiness. Moro Rogers first published book is a graphic novel, City in the Desert . Moro may be trained as an animator, but she has a subtle mind and a deadly sense of humor, and, as one reviewer notes, there is …
Autumnal Quote
“For now he was awake and knew No one is ever spared except in dreams” W. H. Auden
Captain John Brandt, RIP
Captain John Brandt, military man, ethnologist, zoologist, hunter, and rancher, died a couple of weeks ago, just short of his 86th birthday. He was my “other” sponsor for the Explorers Club, (the first, Father Anderson Bakewell, has been profiled here more than once). Both lived lives of adventure and scholarship of a kind that may …