Rare archival footage from pre- revolutionary Russia of real psovaya borzois catching a wolf, with assist from scenthounds, while greyhounds (galgos? ) look on.
No fear if you are squeamish about blood-- as often happens today, at the end, the hunter is going in with a forked stick to pin the wolf and catch it alive...
Wow that was something. Russian nobles with matched teams of 3 on the troika. The dogs were well trained - to stay away from the horses. I would have liked to see them releasing the dogs once the wolf was spotted.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that those original borzoi don't have what Plummer called, "the dolicephalic head: mark of a dog difficult to train."
ReplyDeleteThere are still a few dogs like that out there, in Russia and Idaho...
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