… but extremely pleasant opening day, on Pieter Ditmars’ Dunhill sheep ranch south of town. We saw one dove. Pete shot it. SB with Model 12 20, PD with old Orvis AyA sidelock. The food and company beat the shooting.
Tag: Friends
What “Exotics”…
… did Dr. John Burchard keep? He writes: “The ‘exotics’ I myself have kept at one time or another include a wolf, coatis, corvids large and small, raptors from sparrowhawk and merlin up to and including Gyrfalcon, Goshawk and Golden Eagle (the latter quite capable of killing someone, especially a child), boa constrictors up to …
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…
Bouriy and Yantar
In a comment to Mark in the post on Lauren below, Constant Commenter and dog- in- law Lane Batot of North Carolina explains that he does not have a computer, but that “Mister Bodio recently got a whole bunch of photos of the pups from me that he perhaps can scan(?) and post(?)” Asked and …
Eastern Hounds
Another variation on the endless theme of our landrace, dogs that the conventional might immediately insist is another “breed”. Our Asia, mostly sighthound group knows better, and collectively provided some background. They were found by Mia who said, “These photos are taken in India… The photographer says they call them “Afghan fighter hounds”, because that’s …
More Ink
My New Hampshire friend Dr Hypercube, who is a blogger, falconer, Steampunk dandy, fine shotgun nut*, breeder of tropical frogs, and fellow aficionado of Central Asian art, sent me another great tattoo, a tiger, from Rudenko’s Frozen Tombs of Siberia (anyone know where to get an affordable copy?) If I ever get a tattoo at …
Happy Tazis
The kids are smiling as they get in shape for fall. Pics by Shiri of course…
On Her Way
Lauren, en route to the US from Kazakhstan, stopped at dog-in- law Mark McBride’s in Scotland to visit him and his accomplished working pack (he is also a Kazakhstan hand). Next Oklahoma, then Magdalena…
“Johnny UK” in New Mexico
As promised; ’99? 2000?
“Some good “Doggie” news !”
…writes John Hill, “Johnny UK” of Norfolk: an anecdotal antidote to the gloom in the post below. “It was the Finals Day at the Wildfowlers Gundog Training classes yesterday… June decided to come as well, as she had been to a few classes, and wanted to see how Poppy competed… We all registered,and were all …