Patrick once again documents the damage that the AKC, dog shows, and the idea of closed studbooks do to dogs, with many links. He quotes Donald McCaig: “Throughout the fight [with the Kennel Club], I kept stumbling over a simple truth without quite seeing it: dog fanciers and their creature, the AKC, really do believe …
New Links Plus
Sorry– my latest excuse is back problems. Sitting down for the better part of a year writing a difficult book is bad for your back– duh! But I have been accumulating links and going out with the hounds and taming the Gos (he is actually very nice) so…. “I tell you, Watson, the Giant Rat …
Rina’s New Bag
After nearly two seasons serving as a stand-in for a spaniel, my whippet decided last Sunday she wants to be a Jack Russel terrier. Patrick, eat your heart out. Why this didn’t happen earlier is a mystery to me. She runs across our native cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) often while flushing birds and snaps at …
2,000 Poles Walk into a Bar
Okay, kids, let’s talk ’bout that Krakow, aka Cracow, which is wierd if you know that ‘C’s in Polish are pronounced like ‘ts’ in English. So this city has two vastly different names. Cracow is prefered by graffiti artists, which caused me to think for a sec that it was an alternate, Anglicized spelling used …
Photoblogging: Ruru
A saluki friend in New Zealand, Graham Bond, often sends us bird of prey photos. Most recently, he captured these images of “Rurus” (Ninox novaeseelandiae, also known as “Morepork”), agile little insect- eating owls, catching moths in his porch lights. He writes: “These are a couple of poor quality photos that I managed to get …
Photoblogging: Winter
It is really winter. COLD,and snow coming every few days, though not much is sticking yet at our “low” 6500 feet. We took the hounds out running west of town where we hadn’t been in a long time. The fields hadn’t gotten much rain and were devoid of hare but we had fun anyway.Ataika is …
Photoblogging: Bloggish cards
I was looking idly at the cards pinned up on the door and realized how bloggish they are becoming. This corner has David (Never Yet Melted)Zincavage, Rebecca with hawk & dog; Odious— the Victorian Christmas tree at right; and frequent commentor “Johnny UK”– the yellow Lab. And more have come in since…
Photoblogging: Eagle Nest
Readers who know Edge of the Wild may recall the eagle essay, where I visit the nearest golden eagle eyrie, on “Mount Titty” north of town. Ataika and I went out looking for quail there the other day. No luck, but I got a couple of photos of the old nest, still active. (It is …
Frosting
A storm last Friday left us with a couple more inches of snow and some sparkling frost-covered trees. This didn’t last too long after the sun hit it. You could see where the cottontails had been out early looking for breakfast. Someone’s been chewing on my little aspen. I didn’t see any deer tracks around …
One More Pic
For the bird people: one of Jacob Sewell’s new pigeons, a black- winged gold Archangel. They are among the most colorful of domestic pigeons, irridescent as can hardly be shown in a photo, and their name probably derives from the French ‘arc- en- ciel’: rainbow.