Showing posts with label Dachshund. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dachshund. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Dog Dealers Hate German Engineering

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American and British dog dealers love to toss around the word "span" when it comes to working terrier chest size. It's a t...
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Monday, January 12, 2015

Cracking Tired Chestnuts About Form and Function

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Red fox taxidermy mannequins. There is no red fox taxidermy mannequin anywhere in the world that has a chest span of greater than 14 inche...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Learning About Dogs by Watching Dogs

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In the January issue of Earth dog-Running Dog magazine , Colin Didriksen has a nice article about picking a pup. Didriksen is raising Tecke...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Dogs Made by the Hand of Man

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A repost from August 2005. The morphological variation within dogs is pretty extreme . The picture, above, is of an English Bulldog , a bre...
Friday, October 16, 2009

Artificial Dens, Big Dogs and Fair Chase

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Concrete liners wait to be assembled into an artificial fox earth in Germany. This is an "in and out" design where the barking d...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Coffee and Provocation

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Blind Dachshunds and AKC Inbreeding: Gene-testing of wire-haired dachshunds shows that nearly 10% of the dogs carry the gene mutation that ...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Canine Achondroplastic Dwarves

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A "puddin'" Jack Russell is a dog that is an achondroplastic dwarf. The clear visual signs of this genetic condition are a la...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

A Rabbit Almost Slips the Hawk - But Not Quite

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Teddy Moritz sends the three pictures at left of a strange day in the field ( click on pictures to enlarge ). Apparently, Suli the dachshun...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Will Not Work for Food

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Back in 1946, Field and Stream 's Horace Lytle wrote an article noting that Irish Setters were almost completely absent from the huntin...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

A Quick History of American Terrier Work

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A repost from this blog circa August 20, 2005. For all practical purposes, the story of American terrier work begins in 1971 with Patricia ...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Working Dachshunds: Very Useful in the Field

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Suli with a Spring groundhog. Teddy Moritz writes that: "Digging season on the farms has just commenced up here. I'm starting an ...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Small World Department

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Steve Bodio gives a "big water bowl" boost to Lilly the dacshund. The world is a small southern town. A while back, I discovered ...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Hazards in the Hedge

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Teddy Moritz with Harris hawk, dachshund and rabbits. Teddy has worked dogs for 40 years, starting with a bull terrier and then moving to Ru...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Should Crufts Be Banned?

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Should Crufts Be Banned? That's the title of this piece (appended below) by Beverley Cuddy from The Daily Telegraph . As I have note...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Whippet Good

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Matt Mullenix and Rina the Whippet, with Rina's first brace of rabbits. The title to this post was stolen from an email from Matt -- a r...
Thursday, November 17, 2005

A Brief History of AWTA

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For all practical purposes, the story of American terrier work begins in 1971 with Patricia Adams Lent who founded the American Working ...