Sent by Black Dog Lady, from a mentor, on her dogs and true “oriental sighthounds” generally: “These dogs are not fully domesticated, take care to keep them that way.”
Tag: Dogs
Renaissance Saluki
An image from the 1500’s, oldest western one I know of, by Federico Zuccaro, courtesy of Jess. Anyone have any info on the artist?
Gratuitous dogs
Tavi tazi entranced by the snow; Vladimir’s Onana, who looks uncannily like Ataika; Taik.
Silly dog pic
Chipotle (“Chip”), the PO Lab, waiting for a cookie from one of his customers (photo by Yvonne Magener, through her PO box…):
Pretty dog pix
Jutta Ruebesam’s team, tazi Nhubia and taigan Taalai:
One Good Hound
Not all New Mexico hounds are tazi types; more are longdogs (locally more often called “staghounds”), deliberate and intelligently- bred crosses of various sighthound breeds. I have been hoping, and still am, that Clint Chisler would elaborate on the voluntary partnership between Lucy and a free falcon, but meanwhile here is his celebration of a …
Dog News and Possibilities…
A future father of Q dogs? Shiri’s tazi Tavi who lives up the road. Still a pup but…A BIG descendant of Q dogs: Dan’s prodigious pup:Clint Chisler’s excellent longdog Lucy– there will be field tales soon…
Granddogs & others
More running dogs… Dan Gauss writes to tell us his Galgo girl has just given birth to a pup with Lashyn AND Plummer lurcher on the paternal side. UPDATE: “Department of corrections: re: grandogs. It’s just the opposite. Galgo *boy* sired litter of uno. Plummer and Lashyn are on the *maternal* side. A singleton, born …
Running Dogs
Herb Wells of Alpaugh CA takes the most amazing photos of coursing dogs I have ever seen- probably that anyone has. A couple of sets here. The first three pics demonstrate the incredible and totally normal hyperextension and flexing of a running dog’s first joints (third is also one of out own breeding, Daniela’s Shunkar). …
Gopnik on Dogs
Adam Gopnik’s piece “Dog Story” in the New Yorker for 11 August (available online only for subscribers I think) is full of nuggets, observations, and pointers to good books including Derr’s forthcoming one which should be essential. Meanwhile there are good “detachable quotes”: “She does a better impersonation of a person than we do as …