Training a golden eagle to hunt foxes

Source, The trainer is Roy Lupton, who was also the keeper who shot the three-legged fallow buck. He’s something of a Renaissance man for animals.

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Golden retriever trial in Northern Ireland

Source. Excellent commentary about the scenting abilities of golden retrievers. (Skip to 5 mins 21 secs if the Youtube embed didn’t work.) Goldens are great air scenting dogs. They are also 20 times smarter than Labradors, but I’m a wee bit biased there. I don’t have an empirical, peer-reviewed study that says that. I don’t [...]

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Australian shepherd/flat-coated retriever crosses as guide dogs

or “How to make a merle retriever.” Breed a liver flat-coat bitch to a merle Australian shepherd. And when the puppies mature, some of them can become guide dogs. As adults, the puppies look like merle flat-coats. And seeing as unusually colored flat-coats once founded a separate breed, I’m sure that some people might be [...]

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Bobcat kills mule deer

I’m not sure in which state these photos were taken, but it’s obviously a large bobcat killing a mule deer fawn. Canada lynx don’t have obvious leopard-type spots. Bobcats do kill deer. In my home state, a survey of bobcat stomach contents found that white-tailed deer were their most common food item. *** I’d be [...]

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Fenton is a bad boy!

From The Sun: The runaway mutt sparked global laughter after he was filmed herding 40 deer in a park with his owner in frantic pursuit. Almost two million people have watched net footage of the retriever forcing the animals into a road through Richmond Park, South West London, as a plummy voice screams his name. [...]

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Fenton chases red deer into traffic

Jesus Christ! Source. Deer chasing dogs are everywhere. I say send him to North Carolina, where they like dogs that do that sort of thing!

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Dogwalker insults gamekeeper

Source. Killing a wounded deer that will likely die a horrible death during the winter makes one a “cruel bastard.” But it’s okay if you let your dogs maim the deer– which means the keepers– “the cruel bastards”– have to kill the ones the dogs wounded. Makes perfect sense to me! This problem could be [...]

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Howling with Millie

Here is footage of me howling with Millie, a German short-haired pointer mix who belongs to my cousin Laura.  This footage was taken at my grandpa’s house. Cammie and Rhodie are in the background, and Cammie runs up on my lap to see what kind of nut I am. Source. I’m the one making the [...]

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Unusually colored fox killed in Kent

Source It’s not really a solid white fox. It has normal colored ears– almost like a wild marbled fox. However, it also looks like its body is a pale cream color with some lovely Irish markings mixed in. Again, this fox was not selected for tameness at all. It’s hard to do that when you’re [...]

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Cammie and Rhodie

Here are the puppy photos!  These were taken in front of my grandpa’s sliding glass door. There were seven dogs in this house this week. No one was hurt. There were turds on the carpet a few times. And Willie did quite a bit of growling. But he does that anyway- especially when the puppies [...]

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