...the more they stay the same. In perusing the 1891 issues of a dog and fowl breeder trade paper, I was struck by how many issues plaguing the fancy back then persist today. For example, we regularly hear anecdotes of a new disease or a new form of an existing disease in dogs: An article … Continue reading The More Things Change…
Vintage Animal Book Images: Hybrids
From the book Living Mammals of the World in Color by Ivan T. Sanderson, 1955 From an article by Abraham Dee Bartlett appearing in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1884 From the book The Breeding of Animals by Frederick Blackmar Mumford, 1917 Photo by F. W. Bond appearing in the July 12, 1924 … Continue reading Vintage Animal Book Images: Hybrids
Everett Millais on Mongrelizing
One of the many myths about dogs is that a purebred female who is mated with a mixed breed male is "ruined" in that she will never be capable of producing purebred pups in future. Modern science tells us this is incorrect and that if said female is mated to a male of her own … Continue reading Everett Millais on Mongrelizing
Weekend Finn
I got a new digital camera for my birthday and I'm (very slowly) learning how to use it. But already it's gotten some good shots - much better than the camera on my phone. Here are a few: This weekend's guest star: Willa
Animals in Art: Motherhood II
Above illustrations from Brehm's Life of Animals: Volume I - Mammalia by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Wilhelm Haacke, Eduard Pechuël-Loesche & Richard Schmidtlein with illustrations by Friedrich Specht, Wilhelm Kuhnert, Gustav Mützel, Robert Kretschmer, Wilhelm Camphausen, Ludwig Beckmann, E. Schmidt, Carl Friedrich Deicker, Paul Menerheim, etc., 1895 Hedgehog and Young by Louis A. Sargent from the … Continue reading Animals in Art: Motherhood II
Vintage Dog Books: Feeding
I know some readers share my interest in how dogs were fed in the past. In fact, some of us became friends years back on the old Pet Connection blog, talking about dog diets. Anyway, here are several passages on the subject from a few vintage books, and a dog photo from each for good … Continue reading Vintage Dog Books: Feeding
Rescue: To Save from Danger
As a follow-on to The Fable of Dogtown, I wanted to write more on rescue - specifically, which shelter animals rescues are pulling and why in some cases, it's not helpful to those animals or the ones left at the shelter. When you hear the word rescue in reference to animal shelters, what comes to … Continue reading Rescue: To Save from Danger
Content Warning: Memphis Shelter Pets for Adoption
The Memphis Animal Services website provides photos for most of the listed adoptables but scant descriptions, usually just a couple words such as "heartworm positive" if anything at all. So there's no way of knowing if the pets in the photos are connected with cruelty cases or what their history may be. And since the … Continue reading Content Warning: Memphis Shelter Pets for Adoption
The Fable of Dogtown
Dogtown, USA is trying to cope with citizens needing help with their collectible dog items - books, figurines, art, etc. Some people are collecting beyond their capacity to safely store the items so the city needs to step in and seize their collection. Others are simply irresponsible collectors, leaving items on the street, at businesses, … Continue reading The Fable of Dogtown
Weekend Finn
The headless houndsman 🎃🦇💀🦴
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