Don’t try this on unfamiliar ground (see comments on Blaze below). But if your hounds are as well conditioned as Riss and Tavi…
Tag: Tazis
Photoblogging: Kurdish Turkey II: Village Life
Hounds, houses, house partridge, sheep, field pigeons… Partridge, called “Keklik” are kept as pets and for calling their wild relatives, which they catch with fine nooses… demonstrated below These “swift” pigeons are bred for show in the west but fly free here. The one on the ground had just evaded a wild Peregrine and was …
A Familiar Place…
The road runs straight south from the ancient city of Sanliurfa in Turkey (actually “Urfa”– the title is a post- Ataturk designation) to a border, or, in our fraught times, perhaps, a BORDER, like our southern one. The land is almost flat, dry, but productive since the dam on the Euphrates, which drowned may old …
Ataika, still Queen of the World
Arthur’s work. As Reid says, it’s Ataika’s world; we just live in it. As Arthur said of her late “sister” Lashyn, “the only dog I ever knew who was so confident in her ownership of the living room furniture that she kicked me off the couch.”
Non- Random Doggage
Larissa stayed with us for a week while Shiri visited the coast. Here she is reunited with her, as mother Ataika competes for attention.
Gratuitous Dog
A little late this week, though I won’t apologize. Taalai makes a turn.
Doggage
Nhubia sees a roebuck.
One More for Lashyn
About a month ago:
Lashyn departs
My first Tazi, Lashyn, the “jealous girlfriend” from Kiev, died yesterday on the couch in our living room where she bore two litters of pups. She had battled diabetes and cataracts for two years, but could not win over cancer. The first, her last photo, was taken last week. “…The last look in her fearless …
Not so random doggage
Daniela’s Shunkar, who had already survived a bad bite (you can see the damage from the old one) got bitten by a rattlesnake as he was coming in from a walk with Daniela. He is expected to recover, but it is no fun. Warren’s Lola, granddaughter to both Ataika and Lashyn, is one of those …