A collage of Baluchi hounds owned in Pakistan by Ali Hosnain, a member of my “extended dogfamily”; assembled by Jutta Rubesam in Germany. Call them tazis or Asian salukis or aboriginal Afghans or what you will; I’d own one, and breed from it.
Tag: Animal Breeding
Early Imports & Genetic Diversity
The Bell- Murray foundation “Afghans” (tazis, taigans) in the 20’s, c/o Jess: “All the innumerable ‘breeds’ of Oriental sighthounds can be found as coat variations in any good litter in northern Afghanistan…” –Steve Bodio The caption is unintentionally hilarious…
Strange Tri- Hybrids
From reader Roberto Buonfante comes this “natural” domestic pair and their young, in Italy: a Buteo X Buteo (Redtail jamaicensis x Ferruginous regalis) mated to a Harris (Parabuteo–!– unicinctus) and their first of several successful clutches. Seems they might make great hare hawks! Roberto writes: “… the Harris [and] the red/ ferr. were placed in …
Falconry Wonk Quote
Utah attorney Jason Jones on the proposed regulation of domestic hybrid falcons by the federal government: [The Fish & Wildlife Service’s] “…attempting to regulate the possession of non-native hybrids,… based on FWS’s assertion that their law enforcement agents may have difficulty distinguishing hybrid raptors from native raptors, is the equivalent to the DEA attempting to …
If this model were law…
None of my dogs could breed (or have been bred); nor could virtually any dog I have had in New Mexico, nor my friends’ dogs, all working hunters, all sound. EVERY DOG YOU HAVE EVER SEEN IN Q BLOG.* Think about that when somebody says such “guidelines” are no threat… Click on diagram to enlarge: …
Different Breeds?
Number two in my series; chart by Jutta Rubesam. Click to enlarge.Atai is a Kazakh (actually Turcoman descended) tazi, but Jutta (who I think took the photos of both) will attest she resembles the little “Afghan” second from upper right except for the pantaloons…
Why we won’t shut up
Jess has taken down the post explaining why we fight against arbitrary breeding regs and requested I remove the link. I will let my own words stand for now. Virtually EVERY DOG THAT APPEARS HERE REGULARLY, or that I have ever bred, is ineligible to breed under Los Angeles and fer Chrissake EL PASO rules, …
Dog News and Possibilities…
A future father of Q dogs? Shiri’s tazi Tavi who lives up the road. Still a pup but…A BIG descendant of Q dogs: Dan’s prodigious pup:Clint Chisler’s excellent longdog Lucy– there will be field tales soon…
Granddogs & others
More running dogs… Dan Gauss writes to tell us his Galgo girl has just given birth to a pup with Lashyn AND Plummer lurcher on the paternal side. UPDATE: “Department of corrections: re: grandogs. It’s just the opposite. Galgo *boy* sired litter of uno. Plummer and Lashyn are on the *maternal* side. A singleton, born …
They knew it then…
… so why don’t “They” know it now? Writing in the Lonsdale Libary volume Hound & Dogs in 1932 (ed. A. Croxton Smith), Brigadier-General F, F. Lance said: “The Saluki varies in type according to the country from which he comes. He covers a very large area, extending from Northern Africa to India and from …