Dogs in the garden

[summer_jackel]

I haven't done one of these for awhile!



The hound continues to grow.



Head profiles of Zhava:


Views on a snout











Lovely, mature Coba! The little guy is 4 and a grown dog now, how did that happen?


Wait, did I say "mature?"


Queen Rogue


Take time to smell the flowers.


dogs

Ferns! I'm developing a collection, since I love them and they grow well here.

Leather fern (a native)


Hart's tongue fern




Staghorn ferns are wonderfully weird! Since they are epiphytes, I mounted them on a board and hung them on the wall. I hope they thrive; if they do, they will get much bigger and stranger.


Floating-hearts


I don't have any idea what this is; the guy at the local hardware store gave it to me, having said that someone had dropped them off with the instructions to give them to anyone who wanted them. A plant with a mysterious past!

Fuchsias:









Yule tree (cork bark pine)


nettles


Random the chicken Does Not Approve.


My flock of web footed friends! Dutch Bill (khaki campbell drake), Peace Dove (call drake), Lab, Silver and Steel, (runner X hens) and Onyx, who I am guessing is runner and cayuga. He's the particularly splendid shiny green one. Black drakes are gorgeous, extending the wild mallard's green head to the bird's entire plumage!


The one in the foreground is Lab, the black hen. She's smaller than Onyx and not as green, but she's still very shiny with lots of metallic purple on her wings.


Dux. I want to train Coba to herd them.


Hound in garden


Sky

Comments

[raveness-d.livejournal.com]

First: Borzoi envy! I love her so.

Second: Yay for iridescent black birds. :)

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Shiny black hound, shiny black birds, yes, these are good things. :)

Borzoi are awesome. I love the breed even more now that I have one. She's so sweet and bright!

[kynekh-amagire.livejournal.com]

I think your mystery plants are rubber plants. My mom has had one as a pet for -- I am not kidding -- twenty years.

Never mind, I'm dumb. Great houndphotos!

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

20 years! I want to meet this amazing plant! (I guess it's a TREE, makes sense, but I had no idea). Yeah, mystery plants aren't rubber plants, but they have to be SOMETHING.

[howl-at-the-sun.livejournal.com]

Very very very fine pictures!

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! yip yip yip!

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

"Hound in Garden"

Almost looks like one of the trees, so tall and slender and *SNOUT!*

*giggle*

Thank you for the wonderful pictures. It's fun seeing how they all grow up :)

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

hee, I loved the contrast of the tall trees and tall skinny hound! I really enjoy watching them grow up, and it's fun to share them.

[sandelwood]

A gal came into the shop yesterday with a lovely little 5 month old sable and white Zoi. She was a complete doll. I wanted to rub her snout for ages, it was so soft. :D

We NEVER see them around here, aside from shows. It was a nice encounter.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

oooh nice! Aren't their face planes so good to touch? Zoi are so full of character and sensitivity. The sables are lovely; Zhava's sire is sable and white, and his color is quite fetching. Her sister, who his breeder kept and is showing, is a solid mahogany sable. I really want to know what she looks like now.

I will admit a certain fantasy that one of Zhava's eventual puppies will be an Irish-marked mahogany sable. I want my Lassie-colored dog to be one of the wolfhounds, just to mess with people.

[sandelwood]

I will admit a certain fantasy that one of Zhava's eventual puppies will be an Irish-marked mahogany sable.

Hmmm I wonder if that is possible, genetically. I know quite a bit about how the Poodle colors can be passed down, but I'm out of my depth with tri's and sables with white (which also can occur in Poos, but they're quite rare). My gut says Tri would be dominant as it is in many breeds, but if her sire is sable, it might be possible depending on what you breed her with. :)

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Sable and tri are related in borzoi (and many other breeds, although poodles have some unique color genetics, so I couldn't say for them). Sable is an incomplete dominant; homozygous sable is a pale gold, 'clear' sable, and heterozygous, carrying one sable and one tri gene, is the black-tipped mahogany sable that Rogue sports. Zhava could have sable pups if she was bred to a sable.

Collies only have tri and sable as their available base colors (merle and white spotting are separate genes), and shelties add a bicolor for a whole three colors, but borzoi are available in all of the hound hues. I've seen pictures of a dog that was both sable and brindle---wacky!

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Irish marked mahogany sable is actually pretty likely if I was to breed her to a sable and she had a large enough litter. Many of her littermates and relatives are Irish-marked, and her white bib is heading in that direction on one side. When she was a tiny puppy, and her neck had not yet become borzoi-shaped, it looked like she had an incomplete collar on that side...