Canis lupus hominis

Posted in working dogs | Tagged laika, Moose, West Siberian laika | 11 Comments

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1. on November 3, 2012 at 9:46 pm Anna

   I wish I had hunted with my Chow/Sibe. She would have rocked it.

   
   
   • on November 4, 2012 at 5:23 pm Suhail

     If she had hunted it, she would have liked to drag it home for you too :-)

     
     
     • on November 4, 2012 at 6:52 pm Anna

       No doubt! 8-) She’d still like to, but at 13, no longer has the stamina she once had.

       
       
       • on November 5, 2012 at 8:48 pm Suhail

         About time you introduced a chukchi dog pup to her:

         

         
         
         • on November 5, 2012 at 10:49 pm Anna

           What a beauty! I’ve moved away from the spitzes to livestock guardian dogs & sighthounds, but I could see having a dog like that in my future. 8-)

           
           
2. on November 4, 2012 at 6:53 am chervilmeadow

   At least, the moose populations are reliably reported to be expanding in northern europe – despite being such easy targets.

   
   
   • on November 4, 2012 at 8:32 am retrieverman

     They need to be hunted because they are overpopulated in parts of Scandinavia.

     If you don’t hunt deer, they will devour whole forests. I’ve seen it myself.

     
     
     • on November 4, 2012 at 9:35 am massugu

       Amen brother! Whole forests age out because all the seedlings that would have replaced them have been browsed to oblivion. Then when the browse is gone the deer die anyway–slowly and painfully.

       
       
3. on November 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm Suhail

   They should put Laikas and other hunting breeds to work on moose in Newfoundland and Labrador. They are awfully overpopulated there. My friend lives on the Rock and hunts them and lives on their meat, but doesn’t think there is enough culling to contain their population..

   
   
4. on November 4, 2012 at 5:25 pm Suhail

   Putting dogs on the hunt – happythankyoumoreplease (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1481572/).

   
   
5. on November 5, 2012 at 5:36 am chervilmeadow

   Following the end of surface mining for coal in a central area of England, after it had all been extracted, a 200 square mile area was replanted as forest a few years ago, each of the many millions of trees being protected from deer by a tubular sleeve, which shows how keen we are on reforestation. The world’s industrial revolution was started here and we lost a lot of trees through that of course.

   Sadly, just as we are paying great attention to growing trees on a massive scale various pathogens have blown into the island to destroy some of the species, the latest of these now affecting Europe’s ash trees. Whether resistant ash trees will emerge from this who knows. The ash was the tree our ancestors used to make their arrows, incidentally.

   
   

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