AND NOW MARGORY'S CANINE PIX
Rufus, our 9-year-old whippet friend, after the hunt, and with
his family. He took the rabbit alone.
Cally, in flight, her usual position; and Aurora, sweet, precious
Aurora.
Hamish, an absolutely inexhaustible pharoah hound, and his delightful
housemate, Winnie, at about 7 months, the sweetheart of the beach. Lovely
sighthound friends.
Our first day in the open field, more hours walking than there
were rabbits run, but nice field companions and wonderful wonderful dogs.
"It may be said that hunting is ever a love affair. The hunter
is in love with the game, real hunters are true animal lovers." - Isak
Dinensen from "Kamante's Tales" by Peter Beard.
Isak Dinensen (born Karin Blixen) lived with Scottish Deerhounds. From
"Out of Africa:"
In Africa I never had dogs of any other breed than the Scotch
Deerhound. There is no more noble or gracious kind of dog. They must have
lived for many centuries with men to understand and fall in with our life
and its conditions the way they do. You will also find them in old paintings
and tapestries, and they have in themselves a tendency to change, by their
looks and manners, their surroundings into tapestry; they bring with them
a feudal atmosphere.
...The Scotch Deerhound went well with African scenery and the
African Native. It may be due to the altitute, --the highland melody in
all three, --for he did not look so harmonious at Sea-levl in Mombasa.
It was as if the great, spare landscape, with the plains, hills and rivers,
was not complete until the deerhounds were also in it. All the deerhounds
were great hunters and had more nose than the greyhounds, but they hunted
by sight and it was a highly wonderful thing to see two of them working
together. I took them with me when I was out riding in the Game Reserve,
which I was not allowed to do, and there they would spread the herds of
Zebra and Wildebeest over the plain, as if it were all the stars of heaven
running wild over the sky. But when I was out in the Masai Reserve shooting
I never lost a wounded head of game, if I had the deerhounds with me.
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