Norwegian elkhound/wolf hybrid?

This dog’s image comes from a site that says it is 40 percent “Timberwolf” and 60 percent “Norwegian elkhound.” I don’t know if those percentages are accurate or if this dog has any recent wolf ancestry at all. But it is said to howl. Norwegian elkhounds really don’t howl. They are know for their barks. [...]

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Unknown painting of what appear to be two golden retrievers and a bulldog

This is said to be a “Victorian painting” of two “golden retrievers” and a “boxer.” I can definitely say that the dog on the right is not a boxer. It is a bulldog. The other two dogs might be golden retrievers, but they are very light in the eyes. And one is unusually light in [...]

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Half-wild “Labrador” dogs

The image above come from Newfoundland and Its Untrodden Ways (1907) by John Guille Millais, an English artist, naturalist, and travel writer. He was an ardent conservationist and was instrumental in founding the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire, which now is Fauna & Flora International. Millais examined many different aspects of Newfoundland’s [...]

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Identify this bird

The Answer.

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Another border collie/golden retriever cross

(Source for images)

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“Red fox on stilts”

The perfect name for the maned wolf!

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Another dark golden with brown skin

Source for image. This particular golden looks like a red flat-coated retriever. Brown skinned dogs are genetically livers or chocolates that have the e/e genotype that prevents the brown pigment from appearing on the coat. See earlier post: Brown-skinned recessive yellow to red    

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Wolves may assist in Canada lynx recovery

From Science Daily: As wolf populations grow in parts of the West, most of the focus has been on their value in aiding broader ecosystem recovery — but a new study from Oregon State University also points out that they could play an important role in helping to save other threatened species. In research published [...]

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Rough shooting with goldens and cockers

Source. The goldens are working type dogs of the conventional sort, but the cockers are of the old-fashioned, long-backed strain. Hey, they got a crow!

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A young ghillie with the dogs

Painting by George Horlor (1851). The dog at his feet is a bloodhound, a dog that any Highland ghillie would need to track wounded deer. The identities of the other two are less clear. I think they are setters. Solid white and gold-colored setters were not unknown in the nineteenth century. But then again, cream-colored [...]

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