EVER? A “Palo Alto Rigby”, sent by Jonathan who has an old London one. Makes this English- made one, which we used to groan about, look quite tasteful. At least the lions are realistic… Do remember that both of these guns cost more than my house– come to think of it, the engraved coyotes cost …
Tag: Random Weirdness
“The crows were very large near the old nuclear test sites in eastern Kazakhstan”
What is this? More images when I return.
Spectral Tazi
Pure silliness- phones in a dim room make for odd photos. Shiri, visiting, took this of our slightly simple Kyran being nervous in the kitchen.
Words Fail
Is this not the most grotesque plutocrat’s rifle you have ever seen? And all for only Five Hundred and Twenty Thousand Euros! Click on all to enlarge, especially the last… (HT Jonathan Hanson) Wouldn’t you prefer these? Or even these?
Of Dogs and Porcupines and the New West
David Zincavage’s tazi Uhlan (see below) and his basset got into a porcupine a couple of days ago in Pennsylvania, and the usual mayhem followed. I never had a porcupine hassle here but had some pretty bad incidents in Massachusetts and Maine in the old days; never lost a dog but I won’t forget the …
Situationist Graffiti
The Situationists were a sectarian bunch of heretical commie hippies who came to the world’s notice in Paris in ’68. They were led in part by Guy Debord, a philosopher so contentious that he “excommunicated ” everyone in his group, and finally himself. But, unlike their counterparts here, they had a gift for slogans that …
Wild Things
Tazi puppies are many things, but rarely restful or peaceable. As Libby says, they are not beginners’ dogs. Though I maintain they are not TOO bad. I know, one was called “The Shredder” and one of my favorites destroyed seven Bonsai plants I had been nursing for years because she was jealous (I watered them) …
Manners
These hounds from about a century ago were more polite than mine (courtesy of James Wayne, who sold us the first Darne shotgun sometime well in… the last century). Click to see properly. Lily the Dachs had, and Warren’s Tazi granddogs show good manners though…
Was this ever used?!
Sent by Tim Gallagher but origin unknown: a suit for Siberian bear hunting. Two thoughts occur (1) you MUST be joking and (2) a lot of things eat porcupines, some with no ill effects, and leave the burred skin behind…
Linkage
Is the Honeyguide the most gruesome nest parasite alive? The video is not for the faint- hearted, but check out the little blind monster hanging fby its bill from the naturalist’s finger in the still pics. That it will grow into a pretty if nondescript bird that eats wax and guides humans and honey badgers …