Saturday, April 3, 2010

Natural Hunting Instinct Makes Dogs Useful Hunting Companions

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Die Eber-Jagd Frans Snyders, (1579-1657) and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, (1577-1640), Artists With all-highest permission of His Majesty the K...

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Bear Hunting 1817 Henry Thomas Alken, George Arents Collection Dogs Setting a Hare Sir Edwin HenryLandseer, (1803-1873) engraved by h...
Friday, April 2, 2010

Hunting Party in Migration Mode

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Bringing Home the Tiger

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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 o...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

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

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

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Napoleon by Jacques Louis David (1748-1825)
Monday, March 29, 2010

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Comanche  Trying to Lance an Osage George Catlin (1834)
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Peaches the Pony

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--- full speed ahead!
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Essay: Ox, Dog, Pony and Man Walking

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Four Species Went for a Walk Today by Larry T. Dake, Copyright 2010 P eaches, the pony, usually isn’t invited on the long walks I take w...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Riding a Steer?

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From the book The Dark Continent: Africa, the Landscape and the People Hugo Adolf Beratzik, ethnographer, 1931 There really are people...

When The Wolf Cometh

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John Leighton, (1822-1912), Illustrator When the Wolf Comes   The Oxen Leave Off Fighting to Unite in Self-defense   by Jacob Cats (1577...

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

German Head Yoke

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ca. 1915, Germany
Monday, March 15, 2010

American Pit Bull Terrier

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Harry's father was probably an American Pitbull Terrier. This and other awesome pictures of little value can be seen at http://www.in...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Togetherness

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Harry and Jake got along grand. Jake is an American Water Spanial. (Harry's mother was a Landseer Newfoundland, his father of uncerta...
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Playtime!

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We took Harry to our daughter's when we went to visit and he got some quality playtime ---- so important to healthy social developm...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Taxi!

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Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens ), hitches a ride. Prints of this photo are available at http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/
Friday, March 12, 2010

Ox in Training: Puppy leading calf

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I was having trouble getting Scout to go ahead of me so I hitched the pup up to him and let him lead the way. It worked great.
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Ox Training: Puppy turns calf around

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Pliny the Elder

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Pliny the Elder was a first century author and naturalist. In Naturalis Historia he wrote: "Indian oxen are said to be as tall as ca...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Buddies

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Making the trek back home.
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On the Mountaintop

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Here on the edge of the Red River Valley the land lays pretty flat. Our "mountain" is a large pile of gravel at the county gravel ...
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Weather Alert!

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When Oxen lick themselves against the Hair Look for Rain soon after.
Saturday, March 6, 2010

Porcupine!

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Harry does battle with plastic chimney sweep.

They fight like cats and dogs!

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The dog hassles the cat. . . . and the cat hassles the dog!

Cool Clear Water

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Cattle need plenty of fresh water, year round.