Book is more than half done but not done; cover is. Vadim of course.
Tag: Tazis
Another quote
From the late Christopher Hitchens, via Jackson, who said of it (remember, he is Orthodox): “… [he’s] both cynologically and theologically astute (atheist or no)…” Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are …
Doggage
Unbelievably, the A-K litter, Ataika and Kyran’s, the first Almaty litter in the US, turned nine yesterday. Shiri sent these photos of her Larissa and Paul’s Zoltar, still in the field… Riss with housemates Tavi and Gaddi Here is their mother with them, the day after their birth, and two months ago, still hunting…
Doggage
Taalai and Nhubia CATCH their lures…
Doggage: Tails, Ears, Teeth…
Jutta’s girls Taalai and Nhubia of course…
Doggage
It is spring in Germany and I have been neglecting Jutta’s girls. But the Nhubia (tazi) and Taalai (taigan) show is revving up with spring energy. I THINK Nhubia is eleven or twelve, and I know she is over ten. You would never know it.
Ataika and her mother in Almaty; Almaty life
Could it be ten years ago? More? Ataika at 6 weeks, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in Konstantin and Anna Plakhov’s back yard, the day we met her, with mother Oska. A month in our apartment, with days riding around in Askar Raybaev’s (Mitsubishi!) stretch limo; visiting museums and supermarkets and restaurants and archaeologists; then to New …
Happy New Year Hunt
I try to hunt at least a little on New Year’s Day, which is a bit superstitious (Thanksgiving too, another story). I have been worried that Ataika, best of all dogs, was getting depressed from lack of activity; hell, I was, beleagured by, first, lack of feedback and misleading written advice from the new Rheumatology …
Doggage 2: Tazi run (from Jutta)
The usual Doggage Heroine
Nhubia does a good coyote, and kills the lure (Germany)