From Luisa at “Lassie Get Help” comes this irresistible compendium of breed names from actual registrations. I have heard “Datsun” for “Dachshund” myself. But how about “Winner ” or “Weiner Boy” or “Doxin” for that breed? Or “Pet Bull” or “Pul Bill” or “Pit Bowl”? How about “Crocker Spaniard” or “Shit Zoo”? More and worse– …
Tag: Dogs
Sheep Herding
It has been snowing on Cat Urbigkit up in Wyoming (and Peculiar on the river in Utah) but it makes the steppes green. The puppies are bonding with the sheep, and all is right with the world.
Book Reviews
A Childhood by Harry Crews (also re-read: Florida Frenzy.) Harry Crews is probably in his seventies, a professor of writing in Florida, and grew up among the rural poor of north Florida and southern Georgia.A Childhood is his memoir of that. Somebody in the NYTBR said that it is “..about a part of America that …
Mongol Tazi
Andrew Campbell of The Regal Viszla just sent this ink drawing of a Mongolian hunter with a tazi– reinforcing once more that they are most anciently an Asian dog.
At War with ARistas?
I usually think it is not quite this bad yet, but when Phyllis McDonald sent me this from the UKC I nearly choked. RTWT, but here is an excerpt. “Robert Attleson lives in Littleton, Colorado, where he and his long-time partner, Melissa, raise English Setters. In addition to breeding and showing dogs, Bob is active …
Some Real Dogs
A few of us who love the primitive sighthounds worry that the program of breeding them to standard and closing the studbook, as is being proposed in Almaty, could be the first step on their road to ruin. Vladimir Beregovoy has found a scientist and dog breeder in the far western Karatau range, 400 miles …
Should You Eat Dogs?
My gut reaction: NO!! You are surprised? Matt Miller pointed me to this piece in Salon by Ted Kerasote about a horrifying experience he had in China. My take is not quite the same as his but close enough, especially for dogs. Matt wrote: “Thinking about the grouse watching trip’s participants: have you seenTed K.’s …
Links
Like Rebecca I have been out walking. Also gardening– it is good for the souls. There will be pictures below. Meanwhile, the usual miscellany.. Patrick links to this Telegraph story about the use of pigeons to pay kidnap ransoms in Iraq. “One family attached $10,000 in $100 notes to the legs of five homing pigeons, …
New ( to me) blogs
Here are some good ones I have found by looking around in the comments sections of my and other’s blogs. First, Luisa’s GREAT dog blog Lassie Get Help. Luisa is a native Californian who trains Border collies and defends Pit Bulls. Vicki Hearne would have loved her. She also blogs on other subjects dear to …
Just Pix
Happy old dog: Lily got stairs from the Post Office crew for Christmas. Happy Hawkers (and dog- in- laws): Nate and Cooper’s. Paul and Frieda.