Population geneticist Federico Calboli is a frequent and outspoken commenter at Q. I sent him the material below even before I blogged it. Here, with his permission, are his thoughts. As he is not affiliated with any breeding organization his freedom from bias is clear. If you believe that simply picking from two healthy parents …
Tag: Dogs
Manners
These hounds from about a century ago were more polite than mine (courtesy of James Wayne, who sold us the first Darne shotgun sometime well in… the last century). Click to see properly. Lily the Dachs had, and Warren’s Tazi granddogs show good manners though…
Another Litter
These are longhaired working mini- dachshunds, descended from Teddy Moritz’s dogs, like the late Diamond Lil but with a different coat; these will resemble short legged tazis. Watch this space. Babies Relatives, hunting with Teddy:
On losing a dog
Unfortunately, as Kipling and (even) Ogden Nash knew, a recurrent event given our disparate life spans. Tom McIntyre’s Kaycee died suddenly at four last week, after a joyous bout of play. Tom reflects: ” P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }The death of a dog teaches what a tenuous, suspended by a silk thread thing life is. …
Of Lane and Jane and dog relatives
Our blog friend and frequent commenter Lane Batot lives an enviable life in the wooded hills of North Carolina, working at the zoo, rambling the wild lands with his team of dogs and his spear, reading and collecting a natural history library that would rival mine. At the moment he has thousands of books, thirteen …
VERY Big Puppy
Tina Garfield is spending some of the winter down on the warmer Texas coast with her Anatolian livestock guardian pup Gunny. Look what difference three months makes! He is the small one above…
“New” Petroglyph
… from none other than Andrey Kovalenko— see below. Andrey says: “This rock art is located in (تیمره) Golpaygan, Isfahan in the central part of Iran. GP Location is: 33° 38′ 31.43″ N 50° 19′ 27.30″ E. There have not been any scientific examination (Magnetic Polarity Chronology, Uranium Thorium, Carbon 14 HL) to date the …
One more on Plum
… To thank everyone; I will not belabor the point or fill the blog. Jameson Parker sent Robinson Jeffers’ wonderful tribute to his bulldog Grip. In part: I hope than when you are lying Under the ground like me your lives will appear As good and joyful as mine. No, dear, that’s too much hope: …
Plummer lurcher: March 1 1999- Dec 13 2012
My old dog Plummer is gone. He was born (bred for us, a Hancock designer NM blend of greyhound and bearded and border collie) in David Hancock’s kennel in an England that still allowed hunting with dogs, and died in his bed in his home in New Mexico. Once the greatest single- hand hare dog …
A face for Lane…
It is dated– from the 90’s– and he informs me he rarely wears a hat. But this is the best photo I have of Lane Batot and one of his many dogs, on a drizzly day atop one of his backyard mountains…