I usually think it is not quite this bad yet, but when Phyllis McDonald sent me this from the UKC I nearly choked. RTWT, but here is an excerpt. “Robert Attleson lives in Littleton, Colorado, where he and his long-time partner, Melissa, raise English Setters. In addition to breeding and showing dogs, Bob is active …
Reading Wish List
First addition re New Ideas: my Amazon Wish List, some selections with comments, is now available below the photo– scroll down on some servers. I promise to review any selection readers provide right here!
Teeth
Polymath scientist- archaeologist- artist- writer- rancher Joe Hutto blew through the other day after running down to Catron County, on his way to home in Wyoming via the Carolinas. He brought us a beautiful dark Late Pleistocene mammoth tooth he had retrieved from the black waters of the Auscilla River on the border of Florida …
Hair
Recently rediscovered: not the caveman from the ad but yrs truly early seventies, giving a talk on hawks to schoolchildren. I WAS living in a coldwater beach shack….
Some Real Dogs
A few of us who love the primitive sighthounds worry that the program of breeding them to standard and closing the studbook, as is being proposed in Almaty, could be the first step on their road to ruin. Vladimir Beregovoy has found a scientist and dog breeder in the far western Karatau range, 400 miles …
Should You Eat Dogs?
My gut reaction: NO!! You are surprised? Matt Miller pointed me to this piece in Salon by Ted Kerasote about a horrifying experience he had in China. My take is not quite the same as his but close enough, especially for dogs. Matt wrote: “Thinking about the grouse watching trip’s participants: have you seenTed K.’s …
Kent Christopher RIP plus Sage Synchronicity
My old friend Kent Christopher died in a skiing accident at Targhee a couple of weeks ago. He was only 54, a great falconer and a vitally important voice for the sage grouse and the sage ecosystem. I had known him since he was a college kid in Maine. I last saw him when frequent …
More on Spaying
Dr John Burchard writes on mandatory spay neuter, resurrected in California. I had said: “Only Americans (and perhaps Canadians) have this neutering thing. I thinkEuropean members [ of our list– they did] will confirm that neutering of purebred dogs is much rarer there. He replied: “It is beginning to catch on there too … but …
Links
I want to do more original content (and maybe therefore post less?) but have a lot of linkage stored. Onward! I like Rod Dreher’s version of a Doomsday cult. Guns for vasectomies? Interesting priorities! HT Tam. High- end eagle hunting video here at Patrick’s. Best flights I have seen on film yet, though I once …
Ideas for Change?
This past year has been a tough one economically, mostly because of the sorry state of mainstream publishing. If the story ever gets resolved for the better (which it probably will) I’ll tell it all here. Suffice to say that it fulfills every dire statement that Michael Blowhard ever made about the business. For now, …