Azawakh Idi! Idi! Idi!: Livestock guarddogs Great Pyrenees Euskal Artzain Txakurra Australian Kelpie herding sheep Barbados llama sheepguard predator coyote wolf wolves mountain lions puma cougar bobcat lynx

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Friday, November 26, 2010

My Working Dogs And Livestock

From top down: BOO the Great Pyrenees, livestock guard,

who just passed, in his mid teens.

Followed by LAGUN my Basque Shepherd, or more correctly, an Euskal Artzain Txakurra, cattle herder and guard, he is now 8. My sheep, with BOND JAMES BOND, the gelded llama, the paramount sheep guard against coyotes. And last but not least, KARRAWARRA ARI, Australian Kelpie, bred by Kevin Howell and Tony Parsons, sired by 6 times Australian National Working Kelpie Champion Karana Digger II, his dam is Karrawarra Mallee.

Iferouâne

Iferouâne Idiiyat-es-Sahel is the birth name of my taidit. In Tamasheq it means wings.

She is named after Iferouâne, an oasis town in northern Niger, West Africa, about 1,000 km (620 miles) north of the Niger capital, Niamey. Just northwest of Arlit, capital of the Arlit Department in the Agadez Region, Iferouâne is located in the Ighazar Valley of the Sahelian belt, near the Tamgak Range. It is the gateway to the spectacular volcanic Aïr Massif mountains, which rises 2,000 meters from the desert floor.