tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13666561355952576612012-01-22T14:42:09.424-08:00Azawakh Idi! Idi! Idi! Is a blog about preservation. The preservation of the Azawakh; of endangered animals; of our right to own animals; of the functionality and working character of dogs; of health, of spirituality and of beautiful things.akilah (Mimi Drake)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05124203550481721682noreply@blogger.comBlogger3821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1366656135595257661.post-25857969853913450442012-01-22T14:39:00.000-08:002012-01-22T14:42:09.459-08:00

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from New York will be performing March 13-18, 2012, in Berkeley, California. The photo below depicts A. Douthit, Y. Lebrun, and K. Boyd in the "Sinner Man" episode of REVELATIONS. Click here to link directly to the event. Photo Credit: Andrew Eccles Company member Yannick Lebrun describes the scene captured in this photo: "Sinner Man is a very powerful

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Mr. Potts has lived through 14 generations of Abyssinian cats in this household and survived. His spot is on the top of the refrigerator and he's never moved from it. Truly a family mascot. Mr. Potts The Cat

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My German Shepherd Dog catching the late afternoon sun, patiently waiting for me to finish my interminable tasks cleaning up after the desert dogs in the winter months. Grando At 9 Years Old

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He lives to this age because he doesn't drink and drive. Mr. Mo Is An 18-1/2 Year Old Abyssinian Cat

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Daydreaming Again Ok! Ok! I'm Sitting! One's Looking - The Other's Working Pelé - Ready To Pounce Rambo - Living Up To His Name Cuda - Designed To Work

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Really, that's how I see it. Photo Credit To Pero Aščić

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An American Staffordshire Terrier was lost in Virginia 8 years ago and was just found 3,000 miles away, right here in Yuba County. Click here for the story.

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Imik'Tok Kik Ayittma Nanalé Tamzawit

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New National Open Retriever Field Champion is: FC Watermark's Running Back, with Jim Gonia as trainer and handler. Congratulations! "Emmitt" is sired by NAFC FC AFC Carbon Copy of Horn Creek, and his dam is FC AFC Watermark's Mardi Gras. His owners are Cynthia and Richard Tallman and he was bred by Mary Tatum, DVM. Emmitt was born on January 21, 2008, this makes him almost 4 years young -

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Students at University of California, Davis protesting against tuition increase were brutalized by police ordered by the University Chancellor. Some students were seen in the video being struck in the gut with a baton and doubling over in pain. Other students had their mouths forcefully pried open, so pepper spray could be sprayed into their throats. One hospitalized student vomited blood for 45

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Ongoing Championship Competition Reported Here.

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Click Here To Read Article

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Robert E. Drake, My Father In Law Colonel Ret. USMA Cl. 1944 12 Feb 2007

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Photo Credit To Jari Peltomäki

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Please click here to view the results of the U.S. National Schutzhund Championships ongoing this weekend.

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All photo credit to Laura White for the photos below. Tafouk With Charlie The Family!

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Turn off blog theme song by clicking double bar in video in right column.

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Bill Drake With A Visiting Beauceron

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Turn off blog theme song by clicking double bar in video in right column.

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Sunset On The Ranch

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Photo Credit To Piet Flour

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California Governor Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown Jr. declares a new holiday in honor of Steve Jobs. Click here for story.

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Preliminary autopsy results on Hex, the German Shepherd that was stolen from the Govednik's home, indicated the dog was  "Severely beaten head to tail, 12 broken bones including a crushed skull and it all happened post mortem so he was already dead," said Hex's owner Al Govednik. Click for news article here. We are raising funds to support further investigation to hunt down Hex's killer or

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Saturday morning 8th October, Jeff Govednik (the owner's brother) wrote: hex did not make it home.. we found him with no collar along side of the road. Marsha Asbury wrote: The Govedniks and close friends are in deep mourning at this time.. But still they move forward and are delivering Hex to Chicago for an investigative autopsy. It is a shame as to what extreme some people will go to in

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Time and again, I've experienced gratitude overtly expressed by animals after I've bailed them out from their predicament. Such a pity humans are not the same. Some humans even lashed back at and tried to bite me, figuratively speaking. They'll do anything to cover up their own misdoings and guilt. Fortunately the collective wisdom of the community can pierce through that idiocy. I am now a

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Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. He left behind a company only he could have built, and his spirit will be forever the foundation of Apple. Click here to read more about and understand the man. To view photos of Steve through the years, click here. Said Governor of California Edmund G. Brown, Jr.: "Steve Jobs was a great California

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Please click here to read Steve Wozniak talk about Jobs.  There are also several videos in this article. Wozniak is the co-founder of Apple.

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One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first,

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This dog is not trained by any one method - food treat, clicker, club, spiked choke collar, electronic collar, none of the above. She's totally bonded to her handler, they move as one unit. This kind of performance is a winner.

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Al Govednik's German Shepherd,"Hex", went missing from his yard Monday morning (Sept 26th). Click here for more information. "Hex" was taken from the owner's property on Monday 9/26/2011 around 5:30 AM -- a white van was involved. He's a male German Shepherd with a sable colored coat (meaning salt and pepper coloring), unlike the typical black and tan GSD you're used to seeing. "Hex" is

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To see all of it, click here.

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One more run before a third judge and he'll get his title. Bamako also has a great natural recall at the end of the run - an inherited trait which all breedworthy sighthounds should possess. Lower photo shows Bamako with owner/handler DaNae Keys. I don't know to whom I owe photo credit, but thank you for the photos. You know I didn't take these: I usually cut off the person's head so we

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Tombouktou's X'Azulai won his CWC,CACIB and BOB in Wroclaw, Poland. Congratulations to owner/handler Renata Chwalczynska. Azulai is the litter brother to my Enayat and is a son of Al Hara's Vakara and Takuté Al Ifriqiya. His breeder is Dr. Gabriele Meißen.

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2011 U.S. Azawakh National Specialty

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Hybridizing nondomestic cats with domestic ones is a fairly recent phenomenon. The resultant look is stunningly beautiful. And of course lucrative - the hybridized kitten fetches $3,000 or more. But, looks are not everything. Click here to read another view on why crossing wild with domestic is a disaster. Try not to be allergic to the facts! Nieman Marcus Model

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Working dogs really do work to serve the community. They use their nose and their sense of smell is incomparably keen relative to ours. Humans only have 5-6 million olfactory receptors, while dogs have 220 million. Click here to read article.

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Found in the rain forests of West and Central Africa, the African Golden Cat (Profelis aurata) is a medium-sized wild cat. It is a close relative of both the Caracal and the Serval, but current classification places it as the only member of the genus Profelis. They are about twice the size of a domesticated cat and is a threatened species. The second video is a clearer rendition of the same

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September 11, 2001 8:46 AM ET

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The largest of all zebras, the Grévy's zebra is an endangered species and exists only in Kenya and Ethiopia. Note its distinctive dense and narrow stripes.

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Edjouma came home for an afternoon visit.  He picked the hottest day of the year, then all he wanted to do was stand in the shade.  Apparently the ground was too hot on which to lie - after the sun has been on it all morning. He tried to dig a hole but got yelled at (not by me, I don't yell, I just look at them...) and stopped.  He's in the first 2 photos, below that is Tahatmellet, and the last

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Bill Drake was an ardent conservationist. The Fall, 2011 issue of the California Waterfowl Magazine has a memorial column about his passing in May this year. Please click here to read it. The photo below is of him, taken by himself. It is one of many in his "Frequency" series, with his palms held out in that position deliberately.  This was one of his earlier photos, when he started getting

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This is what happens to an inbred animal. You need to just let it hang out to dry and this will get rid of California AB 610. Click here to vote against it. Based on initial feedback, I'm going to explain to the readers who are nonAmerican: this is a pun on the word "inbred" which sounds the same as the words "in bread". Now you can have a laugh with us.

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Top photo shows Connie Thompson handling Tombouktou's X'Enayat at Meet The Breed 27-28 August, 2011, Santa Rosa, California . I guess I should mention that Enayat is my Azawakh, but as usual I was on my knees, clicking away on my camera, that's why Connie was handling her. On the second day (Sunday) of Meet The Breed, I brought Tahatmellet Idiiyat-es-Sahel, a 2-1/2 year old red brindle

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The Azawakh is a tall, very slender sighthound, originally from West Africa. In the 1970s the first animals were introduced to Germany and held since then by a few enthusiasts and bred. The appearance of the Azawakh is more like a gazelle or a deer, and also the nature of this breed is very shy. TIER.TV learns from Azawakh breeder Christiane Thier-Rostaing where it comes from and what were its

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Sharilynn asked me for these photos many moons ago - I finally got them done. Better late than never! Below are photos of Neshroon puppies:

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Cognitive dissidence is where, when faced with the possibility that you've been wrong for a long time, perhaps most of your life, your brain simply invents ways to convince you that you are still right. I didn't coin this term - it's psychiatry jargon. Cognitive dissidence enables social mechanisms that keep dogmas firmly in place for extended periods of time. This is true in all

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Narrative and filming of Bill Drake and the ranch by Jake Messerli. Click lower right corner of video for full screen.

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Click for full screen, the visual effect is quite spectacular. Click lower right corner for full screen effect. And,yeah, you should probably go to the playlist and turn off the other song that's playing...it's on the right column.

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It's all illusionary. Who'd had thunk sand particles look like this under the microscope (first photo). Or robot cows are for real and for sale. And here's In'AmakTak, chained up with a heavy collar around his neck, about to be thrown into that wired metal globe behind him to be roasted live in some sacrificial religious ritual, just look at his facial expression - he's anticipating the worst.

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Bill Drake was an avid photographer and like everything else he did he was a prolific producer. The following are a few samples of his work. Click on any photo in this slide show and it will take you to web page where the photos have been uploaded and you can view them embiggened and read the EXIFs.

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At 100°F (38°C), even the desert sun dogs we call Azawakh aren't doing much except stand around hugging the shade and showing legs. Except Tcherot. She's a real sun dog.

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Cadel Evans was the first Australian to lead the Giro d’Italia (in 2002), he was the first from his country to win a long time trial at the Tour de France. And the first Aussie world road race champion is now going to be the first Australian winner of the Tour de France. Click On Map To Enlarge

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I'm re-publishing this article, this version conforms more closely to the author's original. The earlier version was translated from French - which deviated from the original.  e.g. The color section was different.  Credit given to the new imports had been deleted. etc. In the United States, the Azawakh advanced to the Miscellaneous Group on 30th June, 2011 - and for the first time is qualified

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There are 13 seconds of ads before the newscast starts.

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"Opus" is the only trained sperm-tracking dog in south Sweden.  He graduated from dog academy in August, 2010, and he's already nailed one suspect. The expert "evidence" he found, will be used in court. Rapists, beware! Read Opus' story by clicking here.  Click this to view all blog posts.

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Safqa models her new harness with Hadrian standing behind. Johanne comments: "The harness fits and works beautifully, and I think Safqa likes it too - much more comfortable. And the second circular strap just behind the rib cage gives so much more security, and you can attach the leash to either ring, or thread it from the first through the second, which I haven't done yet." I think I

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OPPOSE SB 917  It is now being heard on the Assembly Floor. Most of these legislators do not know what is in this bill and what it can do to animal owners, raisers, and farmers in this state. They think this is warm and fuzzy, common sense, anti animal cruelty law because that is how it has been presented to them. We must let them know the truth about this horrible bill and what it will do.

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One of the photos is young Bill Drake, the other is Ricky Nelson. They were supposed to be lookalikes.

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Well, ok. How To Get DOWN the stairs...you have to figure out how to get up yourself...

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Meet Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first woman prime minister. It's not about beauty and brains.  It's about ancestry.

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...but stopped and began to meow when caught in the act.

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How does a Mastiff from Spain find her way to this blog? Soraya is a five months old Mastiff who was taken to Azawakh breeder and veterinarian, Michael Rackl, to be euthanized.  She had parvo, but Michael saved her life.  Now Soraya seeks a new home. She is friendly and can live with other dogs and children.  For more information about Soraya please contact Michael Rackl.  You can also view a

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Today, June 30, 2011, is an auspicious day for the Azawakh in the U.S. Some regard it as a tragedy, others rejoice. Today, this rare West African desert hound is advanced to  Miscellaneous Group status in AKC and is for the first time eligible to be shown in conformation in that registry. Historically, AKC is notorious for distorting and destroying breed traits to suit the pet market. So

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Black male Labrador Retriever, number 85, FC-AFC Cody Cut A Lean Grade ("Grady"), owned and handled by Chad Baker.  The second photo is the final (tenth) test in the  7-day series - a water quad where the 2nd bird from the left to be retrieved requires a swim of 268 yds, just to give you an idea of the distance and the level of difficulty.

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William and Mimi Drake, 8.8.88 Col. Robert Evans Drake and Fran Drake (Bill's stepmother) On this Father's Day, I hope my soul mate is finally free to re-unite with his father, now that they are in the spiritual world together, unfettered by earthly constraints in the Society of Let's Pretend of the cruel and indolent rich, from which he struggled so hard all his life to dissociate.

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The 2011 National Amateur Retriever Championship Field Trial will begin tomorrow, 19th June and continue for 7 gruelling days through 25th June. This year it is held in Ronan, Montana. Click here to read Vickie Lamb's blog highlighting the events; and here to follow daily reports by Tina Ebner and Gwen Jones, and view test diagrams. And here's professional trainer Jerry Patopea smiling

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Laura sent me this photo near the end of May. There are other photos which I may have missed but that's due to my preoccupation with other matters.  Am not ignoring you deliberately or indicating the photos are no good!

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"Are all Azawakh so double-jointed? She doesn't stay long in that position, i'm just amazed that she can do it at all - after all, she's not a puppy anymore." Thanks to Johanne for this great photo.Click to view all new posts.

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The Azawakh is a hound from the Sahelian zone of West Africa. While their body is that of a sighthound, they have the brain of a guard dog with a well developed defense drive. This is the reason I often just use the word hound, instead of sighthound, because the latter can be misleading. In their countries of origin, the Azawakh comes in all colors and all color combinations. During the

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One minute it's winter, the next minute it's desert summer. The Azawakh is designed to be self cooling. Next. See all.

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Every year when the mulberries are ripe the Azawakh morph into tree climbers, competing with the swallows and other birds to eat them greedily. Sometimes one of them leaps into the air and pulls a branch full of berries to the ground, holds it down with a foot, and the others join in for the feast. Next post. View all.          

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Time just flies. One minute they're like this, the next minute they're up and running and havoc reigns. This Azawakh taidit (female) does not particularly like to be photographed, but instead of disengaging in avoidant behavior, she comes after me to attack the camera. As you can see in the bottom photo. That's the end of the photo session for the day.

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Jake Messerli, one of Bill Drake's close friends, was asked to say something at Bill's Memorial Service. After a brief preface, he chose to read from Bill's writings. Gold in a Friend "…Never underestimate the power of your actions with people. With one small gesture, you can change a person's life. For better or for worse, God puts us all in each other's lives to Impact each another in some

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"Finally, one day, we wake up to find that we are strangers to our own heart. Envy the dead -- their Truth of Being. Man seems to have a secret longing for, a weakness for, yes even a love for -- Forgetting."  Forgetting The Dead, Essays Of An Outlaw, by William M. Drake As a child, Bronnie Ware was the black sheep in the family and insisted on playing every single sport available,

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The morning air has a sweetness to it           A fragrance new and fresh As from that cold and languid night The Sun gives birth again to its Creation,        An unmarked innocence,        The scents of Eden, fill the air Tender and young shoots of light         Dance in etheric waves upon Earth’s face         Stirring life from its slumbers                   A smell of beauty attends the

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The Drake Family Photo Credit To Mimi Drake To Those Who Asked: That's Why I'm Not In The Photos. Click here for more William Drake.  Click here to view all posts.

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Bill's Creation William Moffat Drake 5/28/1947 - 5/18/2011 Click here for more William Drake.  Click here to view all posts.

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Texans, you are screwed if you don't take action. There's an interesting assemblage of information over at the Working Retriever Forum open to the public for viewing.  Please take the time.

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The issue of the over vaccination of dogs and cats has been ongoing for decades, and it is a serious one which warrants serious attention, but has not gotten much. The powerful pharmaceutical industry and its profit margin continue to be the governing force of the large quantity of useless vaccines being administered every day to hapless dogs and cats.  Why their conflict of interest is

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Photographer: Cat Urbigkit Good Shepherd Mickey Thoman’s family has raised domestic sheep on the rangelands and mountains of Wyoming for more than 100 years, and at 82 years old, the matriarch of the Thoman ranch is still an active participant in tending the herds. Last summer there were twelve grizzly bears following one of the sheep herds as it grazed the mountain country, but Mickey

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Meet The Latest Saharan Nomadic Hunters And Their DogsA Film In 4 Parts By Benôit Renard Made in 2003, this film was only recently released publicly.

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Photo credit to Siam Crown Kennel

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Click here to read about more breeder restrictions in Texas. Click here to contact your state politicians and register your opposition.

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Are you a responsible and serious breeder? Doesn't matter which breed. If you are, you will read this article more than once, and study it to learn from it. If you aren't a responsible breeder, just go to your backyard and do your thing. About the authorProfessor Dr. Peter Friedrich is the President of the German Kennel Club, Verband Für Das Deutsche  Hundewesen, VDH. The English version of

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Portia Sheen, M.D. - Photo from May 8, 2008 The social status of the American woman before Betty Friedan's "Feminine Mystique" was published in 1963, and after, was perceived quite differently. After Betty Friedan published her 1963 best seller, “The Feminine Mystique,” which denigrated stay-at-home mothers, their standing in society has steadily diminished. Before, in the words of Sophia

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Thylacinus Cynocephalus, The Dog Headed Pouched One In the 18th and 19th centuries, explorers in Tasmania brought back tales of a strange creature that looked like a wolf with tiger-like stripes on its haunches. That animal was the thylacine.  What a fascinating creature: it's got the skull of a dog and the elbows of a big cat. Its hunting style is that of a cat's - ambush and chase by

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Even as we fight against the absurdity of color restrictions, we are allowing the color issues to eclipse other silly changes to the FCI breed standard, such as disallowing a curl in the tail and other such nonsense. The captions below the photos are of course a spoof - on the absurdity of how some narrow human perceptions can ruin a marvelous natural breed of West African hounds - the

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Worth One Thousand Words

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The war rages on: how should the West African sight hound, the Idi Kel Tamesheq, be defined under the FCI breed standard? In a nutshell: not by its color. Even Gervais Coppé agrees, as he stated on 31st March 2011 in written personal correspondence: "Une race canine ne se définit pas sur la coleur, mais d'abord et avant tout sur la morphologie." " A canine breed does not define itself by color,

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The Latest Enemy Of Iran: Dogs And Their Owners By Azadeh Moaveni Tuesday, Apr. 19, 2011 Morteza Nikoubazl | Reuters | Corbis For much of the past decade, the Iranian government has tolerated what it considers a particularly depraved and un-Islamic vice: the keeping of pet dogs. During periodic crackdowns, police have confiscated dogs from their owners right off the street; and state media

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Sometimes a closeup photo can make the subject seem larger. The first photo is of a puppy at 17 weeks but the second photo is a younger one, at 10 weeks, taken closer up. Those white markings do stretch, don't they! 17 weeks old 10 weeks old

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By KEITH RIDLER | Associated Press • Published April 09, 2011 BOISE, Idaho – A federal judge has blocked a proposal to lift the endangered species protections for wolves in Montana and Idaho that had been hammered out by U.S. wildlife officials and conservation groups. The plan could have led to public hunting of some 1,300 wolves in the two states. In the 24-page decision, U.S. District Judge

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A few days ago I posted a photo of an overweight Azawakh (see bottom photo).  Here are a couple more photos, illustrating what an Azawakh SHOULD look like.  The first is a photo of Ynaya (photo credit to Caro Dirr, now Mrs. Per Paetzmann).  Dr.Vet. Gabriele Meißen, with over 20 years experience in breeding and showing Azawakh, commented that Ynaya was in "perfekte Kondition !!". I don't think

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The Working Kelpie Council will hold its National Kelpie Field Trial Championship this year from April 7 to April 10, at Euroa Victoria AUSTRALIA. Here's a video of the 2010 National, Karana Sami working to her 3rd place win. Click here to view Karana Ripper II working in the same National, to her 2nd place win.

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