Posted on 12/27/2014 2:48:28 AM PST by blam
Story by Cy Brown
Photos by Kaylinn Gilstrap
Deember 27, 2014
He got Penny for Christmas. He didnt know he would get a trip into the deepest reaches of the 14,000-year history of dogs in North America.
Things we love in the South: Moon Pies, SEC football, Otis Redding, Flannery OConnor, Cheerwine and, probably more than anything else, our dogs.
What is it about Southerners and our dogs?
Maybe it's because in the South, we're a bit more country than our cousins to the north. Perhaps we are a generation or two fewer removed from the time when having a dog was essential to surviving and living off the land. Our four-legged brethren are a bridge between that wild past and a civilized present. We take them into the woods with us and let them sniff out our game and then retrieve it for us. We train them to protect our property. And they do this in exchange for a warm place to sleep, a full belly and the love of a human family.
We love dogs because they were shaped by us and their history runs concurrently with ours.
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But you may have never heard of the most Southern dog alive.
This dog's ancient bloodlines were never altered by humans. Its ancestors crossed the Bering Strait with the first humans ever to settle this land I'm talking about North America, not just the South.
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They're called Carolina Dogs some folks call them Dixie Dingoes and I have one.
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(Excerpt) Read more at bittersoutherner.com ...
I was wondering why the fence around the dog house in your post #52. I take in rescue dogs and the younger ones will gnaw anything...even the plastic on a dog house like that one.
That was just a partial roll of extra welded wire fence and an extra dog house. They are inside dogs and the dog house is from an older dog that passed away. The welded wire went around some plants when they were puppies because you know puppies! They have small houses in the kennel that is inside the fenced yard. The fenced yard is chain-link. :-) The kennel is inside the fenced yard in case we have to leave them outside while we go somewhere and will be gone too long to leave them in the house. I won’t let them run loose in the main fenced yard if we are both gone and I always lock the gate if I’m gone. I’m paranoid about my dogs. We have had several cases locally of people stealing small dogs right out of their yards to use as bait in dog fights. They’d have to break into the house or do a lot of work to get mine. I even have video cameras on them so that I can check on them remotely inside and out if I’m not there. I can talk to them on the cameras too. It’s a hoot watching them try to find me.
2024 bump.
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