Gos and his toy.
Tag: Falconry
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.
A few more thoughts on dog restrictions
Annie Hocker, Matt, and feminist hunter and gun writer Mary Stange were having an online discussion on the erosion of support for unpopular kinds of hunting like that with hounds. I saved a few of my thoughts as I thought them appropriate for the blog. Mary said (rightfully) that we must mobilize and stand up: …
Falcon and the Snowjob
Relating to the recent pics of GWB hanging out in the Saudi weathering yard, Anne found this post by “BWildered” at the liberal blogsite Daily Kos: “Were you, like me, treated to an Abu Dhabi photo-op? Abu Dhabi royals introducing George W Bush to the arts and sciences of falconry. Where are the sharp-eyed falcons …
The New Bird
Believe it or not, he’s relaxing. But anything with eyes like these never looks relaxed. “God may fly a Peregrine, but the devil flies a Goshawk”.
Goshawk
For the first time in nearly a decade we have a Gos in the dining room- kitchen alcove at Casa Q: He is a bit of a rehab case– he is utterly terrified of dogs, though Ataika is trying to teach him, and when he is at a lower weight he is alleged to scream …
More Dogs n’ Birds
Paul’s Zoltar, son of Kyran and Ataika, pensive… … and in the field: A fresh- trapped NM Gos, sadly not mine: The late tazi “Gos” from Kurdistan– those eyes are appropriate! And Vladimir’s new “Sanct Petersburg” tazi pup Timur– new genes,and beautiful!
A Few from Almaty
I couldn’t make it to the Primitive Breeds Conference in Almaty Kazakhstan this year, which is too bad because many of my friends did. Here are two friends, saluki man and Arabist Sir Terence Clark and Vladimir Beregovoy, who is now based in Virginia. He is a biologist, an expert on primitive breeds, and a …
Last “Bleg”
Still hoping someone somewhere has an “extra” Goshawk–!! Facts: no more permits available for NM birds until next year. Colorado won’t let its birds out. I don’t have a vehicle that would make it to, say, Idaho even if I had no obligations. I haven’t enough money to buy a breeder’s bird outright (though I’d …