Mark McBride may take the largest and most varied bag of any of us as he does pest control and other hunting on neighbors’ Scottish estates. This day saw the initiation of Taik’s niece Nura to ferreting for rabbits. She caught on quickly– no surprise. Nura (the name of the eagle & tazi town in …
Tag: Coursing
Friends in action
New Mexico, Scotland, Pakistan– everywhere friends with dog relatives and near- relatives seem to be having wonderful seasons. Starting close to home, Daniela attended an informal meet where, as she put it: “…every hound in the field that day was descendant from Libby & Steve’s hounds, including these two 5 month puppies, Lily & Lola, …
Miss Tig
Often photos here are either my point- and- shoots or pro- level stuff by the likes of Cat, Daniela, or Alpaugh saluki maven Herb Wells. But this recent one by John Burchard of his (“our”) Tigger and friend racing straight away from the camera after a jack is what it usually looks like.
Photo Blogging: Daniela’s Pack
Daniela went to California to pick up a pup, one of the grandsons of her old Lahav, from falconer – scientist Alberto Palleroni. Their dam is a distinguished young lady from the Gulf who I believe has actually caught coyotes all by herself! They were raised around his Gyrs who like many such fed them, …
Pursuit Hawking
Terence Wright was kind enough to send two splendid photos of the kind of hawking that I can probably no longer do– coursing with dog and pursuit falcon, sometimes over miles. I’ll still try with others this fall, but suspect I just can’t keep up. It was a good run! The dog, lurcher Percy, has …
Random Doggage– Our Pups and Lineage, in Part
I need a new pic of Irbis who has two more weeks to go as a house dog but is driving me nuts as he is in full active mode. Here, to scale, is the plate that saved his leg, now one of my myriad desk chotchkes. Hard to believe it was inside his leg, …
Bek Nazar Dor
Ataika’s father Dor, a great dog belonging to our friend Andrey Kovalenko, died in his native Almaty, Kazakhstan, last week. He was sixteen. He had a good long life, and his genes live on in New Mexico, Kazakhstan, and even Scotland. But condolences to Andrey for his loss of such an old friend.
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 …
Pups grow…
The first one is of Lashyn when she squirmed into a too small crate with them and almost squashed them. The neurotic old girl had NEVER gone voluntarily into a crate. We got them out by unscrewing one side but she stayed in long enough to snap a photo The rest are self explanatory– at …
New Pups!
I have hinted here and there but today our new pups arrived and are looking good.(At about 4 AM– we had to carry the doghouse inside and move the first pup to the whelping box, with all the other dogs leaping up to get a look and Lashyn growling through the door, because she wanted …