A few weeks ago the Sportsman’s andAnimal Owners Alliance warned us that, despite the efforts and concerns expressed, literally for years, by small breeders, APHIS was coming. They listed these points of concern: “Can hunting dog kennel owners sell pets? Can breeders ship sight-unseen where relationships have been well established ? Can litters be whelped …
Tag: AR
Good concept
Thoughts on AR from the letter column of the Wall St Journal by one George Price. It will never happen of course. “If the animal rights who attack laboratories to “liberate” the animals… had the courage of their convictions, they would each carry a little card (like an organ- donor card) reading ‘If I am …
Pigeons vs Humaniacs
Chris Landauer of Border Wars sent me a note a couple of weeks ago on the ARista’s war on pigeon racing. Since then I have been roaming the Internet, too busy and too pissed off to to write a calm essay on the kind of people who would persecute old men, some of them who …
“In our time…”
“… which is a rather stupid time..” (Jose Ortega y Gasset): the latest on the California bill to ban hunting with hounds; and the possible loss of the historical and economically important Remington factory in Ilion New York. On the hound bill, the concern of the antis is touching. “”It’s typically a high-tech hunt that …
A R Follies Continued
I would rather write about things I enjoy, but I can’t let Retrieverman do all the work… and no, a pig’s relations with humans are not the same as a dog’s, regardless of the pig’s formidable intelligence. You keep hearing that such people as the HSUS and their allies have become less fanatical, have evolved, …
Bad news for houndsmen…
.. and all hunters. David Zincavage reports, furiously, here. From an unremarkable story, earlier: “California Fish and Game commissioner Dan W. Richards travelled deep into the wicked terrain of Idaho’s Flying B Ranch to fulfill a long-held goal. “It was the most physically exhausting hunt of my lifetime. Eight hours of cold weather hiking in …
Important Reminder
… for anyone who breeds dogs or cares about the Old Ways: please write to oppose the new federal APHIS regs! Jess sums it up well: “The comment period is to let APHIS know that there are problems with this new rule. It should be abandoned completely. Tell them. Do you plan to purchase a …
Weekend Links
… good, bad, & strange. Bear with my light blogging for a couple more weeks please! First, good: Tazi pix! Right from the source, Almaty & environs– the bearded ethnic Russian guy is Konstantin Plakhov, who bred our Ataika, seen here as a pup at Kostya’s there and as a matron, here, below. Libby with …
In support of Daniel Richards
I hate to see the pressure that California Game & Fish Commission President Daniel W. Richards is under for participating in a hunt he had every right to undertake. Although hunting mountain lions is illegal in California, Richards traveled to Idaho for a successful lion hunt. Richards is not only a hunter, but reportedly is …
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: …