Another non- Arab or at least geographically North African portrait, from the Louvre, courtesy of Daniela. The given title as I got it was “”Un Chien de Barbarie”, but given the obvious I have changed the sex in the title! Daniela called the portrait “a little ‘Taik”– see below (top, most recent, by GG)…
Tag: Hounds
Queen Victoria’s Hound?
Terence Clark sent a fine Landseer portrait from the 19th century of what appears to be a female saluki– or, better, tazi; actually to my eye the dog seems eastern, Asian, even specifically “Turkmeni”. She is doing the rarely portrayed “propitiating” smile and but for color resembles Ataika I think. Terence said, quoting the Country …
BEST Coursing photos
Herb Wells of Alpaugh CA, for all California’s problems still the field HQ of coursing, is perhaps the best photographer of running dogs EVER. A small sampler.The second reminds me of an old coursing print.
Mongol Tazis?
I never saw a tazi in Mongolia but there is evidence they exist, as in this folk painting. It is a common genre but this is the only one I ever saw that had tazis, never mind a Kazakh eagler.Andrew brought me back this wonderful little study in another modern style– I have a horse …
Xigou
Sir Terence Clark has just returned from China. He writes: “I was in Shaanxi Province of China in October 2010 with the Xigou (pronounced See-gow) hunters, one of whom had previously asked me whether I thought his hound was a Saluki. After examining a whole range of these hounds, I can only say that superficially …
Tree Dogs # 2
I have TONS of content overdue– bear with me, I’ll begin tomorrow. Meanwhile here are more of Teddy’s amazing tree dachsies, this time in hot pursuit of a feral cat…
Tree Dogs!
Meanwhile Teddy Moritz’s dogs are climbing tall trees in pursuit of squirrels with their avian partners– that is a dachshund up there, not a Harris hawk! And she tells me he had gotten all the way to the end and was returning…
Team
From Teddy Moritz: Garmin, a young longhair dachs, working rabbits with an experienced Harris on crusted snow. Good birds make good dogs and vice versa. And: I need a Harris, at last.
The Kazakh Bird Dog
When I got Ataika from Kazakhstan years ago her people insisted that a good tazi would also work as a bird dog to the gun, and wouldn’t need much training. Atai has always worked as a hare courser and a falcon’s partner (see last weekend’s post) and during the one month she was taken out …
Weekend Hunt
We– Terence Wright, Karen Wetherill, their lurcher Loki (grandson of our Plummer and Lashyn), gyr- prairie tiercel Cog, Daniela and her smooth saluki pup Blaze, English master falconer and author of Game Hawk Ray Turner, Libby and Ataika and I– spent January 16- 17 hiking and hawking, first on high La Jencia Plain, on Lee’s …