Healthy Dogs

Both Reid and Matt reviewed Ted Kerasote’s first dog book, Merle’s Door, here. His newest book, Pukka’s Promise:the Quest for longer- Lived Dogs, nearly got by me as I worked on my own dog book, and that would be a shame. Less a narrative than his previous book, it uses his present dog Pukka to …

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Dogs seeking homes…

There will be some interesting pups available later this year. But right now there is a wonderful rather young full grown dog available: Meshi. One of the difficulties among so- called “primitive” breeds is that they are– sometimes fiercely– hierarchical, especially the females. This is rarely a problem when they are raised together, as they …

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Doggage

Unbelievably, the A-K litter, Ataika and Kyran’s, the first Almaty litter in the US, turned nine yesterday. Shiri sent these photos of her Larissa and Paul’s Zoltar, still in the field… Riss with housemates Tavi and Gaddi Here is their mother with them, the day after their birth, and two months ago, still hunting…  

Dog family

Shiri had to leave Larissa with us for a couple of days when she flew to San Diego for a friend’s play opening there. Rissa behaved like a lady– she has obviously gained some poise being the sole queen in a house of boy dogs rather than the third rank female. We hope to breed …

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