The Ox Training Sleigh

This is Scout's first time pulling anything.

The self braking system keeps the sleigh from running into the calf's heels.

 

The training sleigh needs to be lightweight, have high clearance for unexpected off-road adventures, and it needs to be self-braking to prevent it from sliding into the calf’s heels. This particular model meets all those requirements and comes with baked on powder enamel finish.

Actually this is the frame of a discarded treadmill turned upside down. It works great!

Scout Still Shares His Bowl With Harry

Ox-in-training still shares with dog.

The Canine Pack is a Social Structure that Helps Make Dogs “Man’s Best Friend”

[Ready for a Picnic]
1879 Chatterbox Junior periodical
Frank M. Buckland, editor

[Time Out with Friends]
Richard Andsell (1815 -1855) British

Training the Dog
(detail of larger picture)
Eugene Remy Maes, (1849-1931) Belgian

The Lady's Obedient Dog
David Emile Joseph de Noter
 (1818-1892) Belgian

His Only Friend
John Charles Dollman, (1851-1934)
from The Illustrated London News, 1875
The dog cares not his master’s esteem among men.

Teaching a Dog New Tricks
John Arthur Lomax (1857-1923) English

"Can’t Tell Him There’s No Fishn"
Henry (Hy) Hintermeister, (1897-1972), American

Victorin and His Dog

French aviator Victorin Garaix was born in 1890. He earned his aviators licence in 1912, and set a new altitude record of 7,328 feet in a bi-plane --- with five passengers. This photo of Victorin and his dog was taken in March, 1914; he was killed in action at about 24 years of age, August 15, 1914, in WW I.

U.S. Library of Congress

The Dog's Territorial Disposition and Pack Mentality have Served Us Well for Watching and Guarding Ourselves, Our Property, and Our Loved Ones

Mastiff --- Don't Cross Me Up
Will's Cigarette trading card from
George Arents Collection, likely 1937

Extraordinary Escape
published
March 7, 1809, by J. Wheble, Warwick Square

In an Emergency A Mighty Good Friend To Have
1945 mouthwash advertisement

True til Death
Stanely Berkely
English artist, 1855-1909

The Call That Rescued
Henry (Hy) Hintermeister
American artist, 1897 - 1972

Nothing Will Go Unoticed
from the book Dog Stories and Dog Lore 
by Thomas W. Knox
1887

It Helps to Have a Buddy When You're Scared
Frances Tipton Hunter
American artist, 1896-1957

Search and Rescue, and Herding, are Refinements of the Hunting Instinct

On scent - Bloodhounds
John Sargent Noble (1848-1896)
Britain

Saved!
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873)

This is a painting of Milo, a lighthouse keeper’s dog. It is said that in dense fog the dog’s barking warned approaching boats of the rock on which the lighthouse sat. To his credit, it is said, Milo rescued several children from drowning. The lighthouse rock is off the coast of Massachuset near the town of Nahant. The black and white variant of the Newfoundland dog became known as the Landseer Newfoundland.

St. Bernards - To The Rescue
John Emms (1844–1912)

Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873)

In 1820, at the age of eighteen, Landseer painted these dogs rescuing a traveler on the Great Saint Bernard Pass (Switzerland). A monk from the Great Saint Bernard Hospice can be seen in the background of the painting. The dogs, which have become known as St. Bernards, were bred to travel through the deep snow to find and rescue lost travelers. The hospice was founded in 1049; it is said that artist Salvatore Rosa painted the dogs as early as 1690. The dogs were sold in 2004 as a cost cutting measure, but the breed is being kept alive today by dog fanciers.

The Shepherds of the Landes

Yan Dargent

1869

Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection

The use of stilts by shepherds in the boggy, brushy country of the Landes dates back to the early 18th century. The stilts helped the shepherds make their way through the brush and vegetation, helped them keep their feet dry, and enabled them to view their flocks of sheep from a distance. Today the Landes is home to a large forest of pine trees planted in the middle of the nineteenth century. The shepherds in this illustration appear to be herding cows.

Checker ---The Comedian
Larry T. Dake
Copyright 2010
My Australian Kelpie x Border Collie dog with Suffolk rams in 1988, while herding sheep in Eastern Oregon.             

Texas Cattledog
"Western Bank Note Company, Chicago"
Copyright 1882

Collies By a Pen
John Sargent Noble, (1848-1896),  British

Natural Hunting Instinct Makes Dogs Useful Hunting Companions

Die Eber-Jagd
Frans Snyders, (1579-1657) and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), Artists
With all-highest permission of His Majesty the King of Barvaria
Château Royal à Schleissheim

 Hunting the Kangaroo
 1901
The Romance of Australia: Its Discovery and Colonisation, Adventures of its Explorers and Settlers,   Frowde

Hunter and English Setter
1936
http://www.decodog.com/inven/dog-english-setter2.html

Bear Hunting
1817
Henry Thomas Alken,
George Arents Collection

Dogs Setting a Hare
Sir Edwin HenryLandseer, (1803-1873)
engraved by his brother Thomas Landseer
  

Le Chasseur de Lapin
André Brouillet
1891
Le Figaro, Paris, France

Hunting Party in Migration Mode

Bringing Home the Tiger

Grandkids , Levi and Kira,  gave Harry a tiger  that squeaks and rattles. It's been a real hit with him, and he has it nearly wore out.

The Ponies Propensity for Speed Was Good for the Races and Wars of Men

Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 
 by William Robinson Leigh 1866-1955
The National Heritage Museum
http://www.nationalheritagemuseum.org/

Napoleon
by Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)