Claire Steyert ([info]silverhippo) wrote,
@ 2008-10-13 12:17:00
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Dolphins at Dunbar and Podengos

Yesterday we went to Dunbar for the monthly dog walk that Nora organises. We haven't been since Tara hurt her leg but thought that she would be up to it now. The walks was good and Tara behaved well and all the dogs managed the walk fine, though they are tired today. The high point of the walk was seeing dolphins playing just off shore. It is the first time I have seen them in the wild. I managed to get a few photos and they may not be good but they do prove that the dolphins were there.




The weather was very good and the dogs proved much easier to photograph.

More photos at:

http://www.silverhippo.com/images/walk_oct_08/

Once we got home I posted the walk photos on the forum and one of the other members though that Alfie looked like a Wire haired Portuguese Podengo. Having never heard of them I did a search on the web and surprisingly loads of dogs looking just like Alfie. So quite a surprise for us as we thought that he was a mix of all sorts of things. Of course he may not be a Podengo but he looks very like one.

Alfie

Link to google image search for Podengos:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&um=1&hl=en&safe=off&q=Portuguese+Podengo+medio&btnG=Search+Images

and on the Podengonedio (medio is the medium sized ones) web site:

http://www.podengomedio.com/id40.html

Look at the 9 year old at the bottom of the page.




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[info]grahamrobinson
2008-10-13 11:57 am UTC (link)
I've just finished posting pretty much the same thing to my blog. Hope our mutual friends don't mind being spammed with photos of Alfie...

I've passed a few photos to the Podengo breeders club, so we'll see what they think.

Love,
Graham

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[info]scellanis
2008-10-13 03:26 pm UTC (link)
They are cute, I bet he is one, he'd have probably been quite a pretty one when he was younger.

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[info]webrat_jen
2008-10-14 08:23 am UTC (link)
dolphins are tricky to photo. they lie in wait, jump, then, but the time you've got the camera spun round in their general direction they go off for a cup of tea. and repeat every 20 minutes....
i am muchly impressed you managed to catch them!

will start on the alfie felting project. i hope i have enough pale wool.... he is a really gorgous colour, and i want to get the blend matching right.

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