Ataika and me. (Not this year; we have both been a bit creaky).
Tag: Tazis
Two Badass Western New Mexicans
John Davila and Miss BoBo:
The Girls Play
Once again we have a Girls’ Act. Bobo has regressed her great aunt to about 18 months old (from 14 years). They play and pop and flirt as long as anyone stays awake. This will come as no surprise to anyone who knows Turcoman tazis. Ataika’s mother was 14 when she had her and 21 …
Bobo
Yes, we have the new pup, and she is everything we wanted. Even ATAIKA likes her- perhaps she can smell familiar genes. (She is her great aunt). Of course she shreds everything, but she wouldn’t be a tazi if she didn’t… Thanks to Lane Batot, and especially to Philip Bailey and Kerry Cooper, who kept …
Isabella’s pups
..In Virginia- 5 boys, 5 girls: 0ur pick is the small brown- collared girl, who has a white blaze and the prospect of a dark muzzle and ears. She might resemble the late lamented Pax. They, and Ataika, are all closely related. Our current thought on a name is Alema, Kazakh for Milky Way, after …
Pups to be
In Indiana… TWELVE of them:
Random Doggage
Jutta’s dancing dogs, Nhubia the tazi and Taalai the taigan, are back..
Healthy Dogs
Both Reid and Matt reviewed Ted Kerasote’s first dog book, Merle’s Door, here. His newest book, Pukka’s Promise:the Quest for longer- Lived Dogs, nearly got by me as I worked on my own dog book, and that would be a shame. Less a narrative than his previous book, it uses his present dog Pukka to …
More Doggage
I hadn’t intended to be so profligate, but Rissy is coming into her own.The feral girl is now a still- slightly mad “Mom”. She even comes back– sometimes.
Doggage
Jack sent this good old “sign”… Which prompted me to reply with a recent pic of Princess Pook, AKA Ataika, the queen of Kazakhstan and points west. At eleven she can still jump a fence or catch a rabbit, and is currently in heat, driving the boy crazy. But then, her mother gave birth to …