From Teddy Moritz: Garmin, a young longhair dachs, working rabbits with an experienced Harris on crusted snow. Good birds make good dogs and vice versa. And: I need a Harris, at last.
Tag: Dogs
Old Plummer
Our thirteen- year- old English lurcher from David Hancock, once one of the best single- hand hare hounds in the southwest, father and grandfather of other great dogs, mostly content to dream on the couch. Unless he sees a hare…
Training
I like my dogs & hawks to– literally– be able to share a lure or kill. For just one thing it makes the birds eagle- proof in the western field; for another it just makes everything easier. Ataika is a good teacher.
More Dog Morons
Sari from our Asia Group sent me a link to this (nearly) unbelievable story about New Guinea singing dogs. It begins: “The New Guinea Singing Dogs are the rarest in the world. Just 150 were known to exist before the bust at Randy Hammond’s home. Now there are 235.” So they “rescued” and neutered them. …
Old Eastern Salukis, Volume–??
I have seen this Jingiz or Kubilai- era Chinese image before but only in poor quality. And it is a brindle! Click to, as they say in Bloggish, embiggen.
Breeder Issues
No; though there will be fun stuff today, I will not stop beating this drum, because it needs saying/ beating. Jess from DesertWindhounds, in a comment at Retrieverman’s on why “can’t we just all get along?” “Tell you what. When I stop getting harassed by total strangers for my breeding decisions, we’ll all get along. …
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.
Beating the Drum Again…
Arguments in the saluki- tazi world again (and implicitly in the whole dog world) on closed studbooks, “invalid colors”, the usual. And as always, sane and scientific counsel from John Burchard: “I think we have to remember that the breed subdivisions within the “oriental sighthound” group are to some considerable extent a Western artifact which …
Chinese Tazis Continued
When I wrote about old tazis in Asia recently one commenter sneered and asked if I thought Chinese “sheepheads” were ancient too, meaning the roman- nosed tazis of northwestern China (colloquially, “thin dogs”). I replied with this image from Prince Xanghui’s 8th Century tomb. Here is a recent photo of a similar hound, a male …
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, …