AfriCanis is the word used to describe the native dogs of Africa. Here is a sample of AfriCanis we saw in Lesotho. These dogs have a broad range of uses – from guarding livestock, to their use as hunting dogs.
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Big dogs of Lesotho
It’s taken me forever to sort photos from our Lesotho/South Africa trip, but now I’m going to flood the blog with images of dogs we met along the way. These are the bigger dogs or livestock guardian type dogs that we met in Lesotho. The primary predators in Lesotho are jackals, but these dogs have …
Lesotho – the kingdom in the sky
Jim and I have just returned from a fantastic trip to Lesotho and South Africa. While we enjoyed our journey into the heart of traditional Zululand in South Africa (a future post), our arrival in the high alpine mountains of Lesotho was the discovery of Shangri-La. The Kingdom of Lesotho is an independent nation entirely …