Tavo Cruz called us yesterday to meet him and other dog- in- laws and coursing friends for lunch at the Owl bar and a run down by White Sands missile range, where hares seem to thrive even in droughty years. I am gratified that old farts like me and Dutch Salmon are still walking, and …
Tag: Hounds
Two different breeds
Ya think?Afghan, (real)Taigan
One more irresitible quote
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.”
Beaches in two Hemispheres
Tazis and horses, maritime habitats, family & friends, Scotland and west Australia, Mark McBride and Chantal Parratt, even fierce little cousin Nura…
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.
Magdalena Lion Hunt
My friend and “cousin”, local rancher, reader, and hunter Sissy (Mary Helen Gianera Pound) Olney, ran into us in the Capitol Bar in Socorro yesterday and told us to look up this YouTube of her husband Tom and nephew Royce hunting mountain lions in the Magdalenas on horseback with hounds, the traditional way. The video, …
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…