Margory Cohen sent this, by the late, great, and much- missed Vicki Hearne: The New Hound Puppy Now it is time for her name – Start the call. The time may comeFor her job, which is to runHoles in the palpable wind Hallowed by world and the worldWill collapse, follow this houndThrough meteoric valleys. Wolf-shag …
Tag: Hounds
Serendipitous semi-random hound meeting
This is a very preliminary photo batch, as we are having dinner with Joel, and photos are not yet all in. But Dutch Salmon invited us to meet him at the Owl in San Antonio (our S A, NM not TX) where he was picking up a young female part- Azawakh from Marya. (I hadn’t …
Snakebit!
Two of our beloved tazluki relatives got snakebit by what seems, judging from the fang marks to have been a large rattler, at Daniela’s. Incredibly, 15 year old Lahav got the better of it, while grandog Shunkar seemed to have some eye involvment. Both better now– will pass on any news. I don’t hate snakes …
“In our time…”
“… which is a rather stupid time..” (Jose Ortega y Gasset): the latest on the California bill to ban hunting with hounds; and the possible loss of the historical and economically important Remington factory in Ilion New York. On the hound bill, the concern of the antis is touching. “”It’s typically a high-tech hunt that …
Our culture…
As demonstrated in our social center, the Golden Spur Saloon (I have for the moment ignored ranchers and cowboys, though the Spur’s site doesn’t). Click or double to enlarge either photo. Below, my late mentor Floyd Mansell in our front yard in 1986, with son Brandon, who now has his own kids, and a morning’s …
Bad news for houndsmen…
.. and all hunters. David Zincavage reports, furiously, here. From an unremarkable story, earlier: “California Fish and Game commissioner Dan W. Richards travelled deep into the wicked terrain of Idaho’s Flying B Ranch to fulfill a long-held goal. “It was the most physically exhausting hunt of my lifetime. Eight hours of cold weather hiking in …
Still standing
And above all still hunting: two over- sixty writers, houndsmen with Parkinson’s: Dutch Salmon and me, wearing out some younger hunters, with our hounds last February near White Sands…
Baluchi Hounds
A collage of Baluchi hounds owned in Pakistan by Ali Hosnain, a member of my “extended dogfamily”; assembled by Jutta Rubesam in Germany. Call them tazis or Asian salukis or aboriginal Afghans or what you will; I’d own one, and breed from it.
Early Imports & Genetic Diversity
The Bell- Murray foundation “Afghans” (tazis, taigans) in the 20’s, c/o Jess: “All the innumerable ‘breeds’ of Oriental sighthounds can be found as coat variations in any good litter in northern Afghanistan…” –Steve Bodio The caption is unintentionally hilarious…
Dogs & age
An expansion from the comments below, from Chas’s staunch “8 is not old!” to Lane’s “8 is the new 4..” I think it depends on the breeding. Atai’s family is incredibly long lived– here is a pic of her at about 3 months with her 15 year old mom, who lived to nearly 20, the …