More running dogs… Dan Gauss writes to tell us his Galgo girl has just given birth to a pup with Lashyn AND Plummer lurcher on the paternal side. UPDATE: “Department of corrections: re: grandogs. It’s just the opposite. Galgo *boy* sired litter of uno. Plummer and Lashyn are on the *maternal* side. A singleton, born …
Tag: Hounds
Sporting Miscellany
As the Peculiars are here with grandbaby Eli I shall continue my slackerish blog- sloth for a bit more, but I have harvested a number of cool images to share. So with no further ado: Colonel Charles Askins was a more ambiguous character than the other Golden Age gunwriters; he once described himself as a …
Running Dogs
Herb Wells of Alpaugh CA takes the most amazing photos of coursing dogs I have ever seen- probably that anyone has. A couple of sets here. The first three pics demonstrate the incredible and totally normal hyperextension and flexing of a running dog’s first joints (third is also one of out own breeding, Daniela’s Shunkar). …
They knew it then…
… so why don’t “They” know it now? Writing in the Lonsdale Libary volume Hound & Dogs in 1932 (ed. A. Croxton Smith), Brigadier-General F, F. Lance said: “The Saluki varies in type according to the country from which he comes. He covers a very large area, extending from Northern Africa to India and from …
A Historic Gun?
A Savage Model 99, for its forward- looking elegance and efficiency perhaps my all time favorite American rifle design (and Roy Chapman Andrews, the model for Indiana Jones, took one to the Gobi when he discovered the Flaming Cliffs fossil beds and the first Dino eggs!) This one is a take- down model in the …
The Girls in Santa Fe
Much more in a little, but just downloaded this pic of The Girls looking rather formal and on their best behavior while staying at the Peculiar’s last week midst the chaos. They behaved well, were a great comfort, and went to the graveside, though Lashyn (left) remained rather nervous the entire time. (She has a …
Why I prefer free hunting…
… to lure coursing: I don’t like frustration! Taigans, including Jutta Rubesam’s red Taalai, in Germany, by her:
Dogs
Recent of ours, all but Irbis showing a little age, by Gail Goodman, and Cousin Nura in Scotland. Taik, Rissa, Kyran, Lash, Irb; two of Atai’s niece Nura courtesy of Mark McBride.
Andrey’s Photos
Andrey Kovalenko, ornithologist, breeder of our Kyran, and ace photographer, has a new wildlife photo site. He travels all over Central Asia but I bet more of them are from his own Kazakhstan , with its incredibly varied landscape, than anywhere else. Here is an example, plus one of him with Kyran’s father Berkut and …
Cute Puppy
Because nobody can resist and it is all Win: Paul Domski with a Chris Mason galgo pup, photo by Daniela Imre last weekend.