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...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/69602298@N07/15315987648/lightbox/

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

Karen Myers said...

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.

Steve Bodio said...

Tazi or taigan (mountain, Kyrgiz variant). I have seen pics of Taigans in the Wakhan Corridor and in caravans in Tajikistan.

Anonymous said...

Unseen arroyos can be killers for greyhounds or whippets in hot pursuit of a rabbit.

Steve Bodio said...

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.