A classic Indian miniature from this site, circa 1800, sent by Jess at Desert Windhounds. As Brett says, it is either the biggest tazi or the smallest handler EVER.
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Waiting for the storm
The storm is coming. We can feel it. I can smell moisture in the air. The wide open sky is a beautiful overcast shadow above us, providing just a casting of blue and gray hues across the landscape. We moved our sheep herd, burros, and livestock protection dogs back down into the river pasture where …
Clinton Loses It?
It is late at night but I don’t THINK this is a hoax. “President Bill Clinton has been named PETA’s 2010 Person of the Year, the animal rights organization announced Monday. “Though he was famously a fan of Big Macs while in office, Clinton turned to a vegan diet this year for health reasons in …
Carel’s Beetle
About a year ago, before chaos struck (or at least was diagnosed), Libby commissioned Carel Pieter Brest van Kempen to do a watercolor for my birthday. Someone asked if it would be a raptor. I was almost offended- every falconer in the world is inundated with such images. Given Carel’s eclectic tastes, I opted for …
Peaceful kingdom (a work in progress)
Such a nice polite pup under the Christmas tree, right? Appearances can be deceiving – this is Hud, our new herding dog pup, arriving a week ago. We’ve had some heartbreak in our lives this last month, so the addition of two kittens and a pup have been very pleasant distractions. We named the kittens …
Merry Christmas!
How I Feel About Parkinson’s
From XKCD:
Old Plummer
Our thirteen- year- old English lurcher from David Hancock, once one of the best single- hand hare hounds in the southwest, father and grandfather of other great dogs, mostly content to dream on the couch. Unless he sees a hare…
Commonplace Book: I don’t want to kill a tiger but…
From a letter Peter Fleming, Ian’s older brother and the better writer (News From Tartary— all the other editions are insanely expensive and this gives you two good books in one volume), wrote to his four- year- old son in England while he was working in intelligence in Burma in WW II: “If you are …
Training
I like my dogs & hawks to– literally– be able to share a lure or kill. For just one thing it makes the birds eagle- proof in the western field; for another it just makes everything easier. Ataika is a good teacher.