"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Random Doggage
Daniela tells us that Blaze is not coursing marmots; he is just diving off a steep slope-- an arroyo?-- in hot pursuit...
Looking at this picture, do you think it is a pup of Tazi origins? Just curious. The picture was taken in Tajikistan or Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor this past summer.
My Uhlan certainly courses groundhogs. The buried electric dogfence gives the prey a border of refuge, and the contest seems pretty evenly balanced.
When I open the cabin door, up on the small rise, the tazi "stands on" for a moment, like a hawk, trying to spot a deer or groundhog in his front-field domain, before launching like a rocket.
Don't we know it-- our Irbis was laid up for months after his compound fracture, which he got running down the side of one and possibly getting his foot in a hole.
But if a dog KNOWS the arroyo (or other obstacle) they can use them to launch some incredible acrobatics.
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Looking at this picture, do you think it is a pup of Tazi origins?
Just curious. The picture was taken in Tajikistan or Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor this past summer.
Lynda
Oh, I don't know...
My Uhlan certainly courses groundhogs. The buried electric dogfence gives the prey a border of refuge, and the contest seems pretty evenly balanced.
When I open the cabin door, up on the small rise, the tazi "stands on" for a moment, like a hawk, trying to spot a deer or groundhog in his front-field domain, before launching like a rocket.
Tazi or taigan (mountain, Kyrgiz variant). I have seen pics of Taigans in the Wakhan Corridor and in caravans in Tajikistan.
Unseen arroyos can be killers for greyhounds or whippets in hot pursuit of a rabbit.
Don't we know it-- our Irbis was laid up for months after his compound fracture, which he got running down the side of one and possibly getting his foot in a hole.
But if a dog KNOWS the arroyo (or other obstacle) they can use them to launch some incredible acrobatics.
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