I have been simply flabbergasted by the controversy I’ve been reading about dog husbandry and the nit-picking crap described by Steve and our blogger friends in several recent posts. After reading the animosity represented, I suspect that some folks would have me put behind bars since our lifestyle doesn’t conform to their rigid standard for …
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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. …
Bold supervision
Hay harvest on our ranch started this week. Part of that process involves getting all the equipment greased, gassed, tuned up and ready to work – including machinery that hasn’t been touched since hay harvest ended last year. Our two tractors are kept in a fenced stackyard next to the south meadow, and the other …
Controversial Pups
Our Asian dogs are capable of causing fits among more conventional dog breeders. Lately cyber attacks and threats were unleashed against litters by Vladimir Beregovoy and Jes and Brett at Demonpuppy’s Wicked Awesome Dog and Art Blog. Jess explains in great detail: “…it is so incredibly disappointing for me to find out that an acquaintance …
Thanks, Paivi!
Just got one of the most expensive and impressive books on my Amazon Wish List, Wilson and Holldobler’s The Superorganism, sent by Paivi Annuka Pasi in Finland, with a note thanking this blog for the inspiration for his leaving business for entomology this fall. Thank YOU, Paivi– nice to think our thing here sometimes makes …
Bueno perro
I just received my first copies of the about-to-be-released bilingual version of my Brave Dogs, Gentle Dogs: How They Guard Sheep book. This was my first children’s book, and is still my favorite, because it’s some of my favorite subject matter. The Spanish translation was done by Aida E. Marcuse, and the new edition is …
Milton v. Dante, the Cage Match
Continuing the ecclesiastical theme begun by Cat, our shepard, I thought I’d share some thoughts on related readings. I’ve been on a damnation kick lately (possibly spurred by a recent birthday) and have read in the last few weeks C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce, all of Wayne Barlowe’s fascinating infernal art and text, John Milton’s …
The mark of the cross
There are plenty of legends and stories about what wonderful and loyal companions burros make – miners and shepherds of long ago talked to their beasts of burden and treated them like old friends, which they often became. I’m going to venture into new territory here and share a story about the cross mark on …
Evening in the pastures
Final check of the day today was beautiful, with stormy skies and a breeze. The sheep and their burros were down by the river, munching on greasewood and bluegrass. Never got a photo of the guard dogs, since they were getting fed at camp nearby. On our way out of the pasture, flushed two red-tailed …
Bat quest
We have a maternal colony of little brown bats in the barn next to the New Fork River. There is an old stack of doors and plywood leaning against a partition, and the bats move into the spaces between the wood every summer to have their babies. I call the photo above “The Four Amigos.” …