This is Jagger, with his son Finnicus, and his daughter Zette. The game is, "Roll the low-dog." One might assume that Zette is the low dog. Not so. Finnicus was a gift from my wife to an admirer of the breed who thought it best to neuter him immediately. Personally, I believe it was because she couldn't stand the thought of testicles. There has been alot of propaganda, and campaigning in the last thirty years to convince the general public that early spay and neuter is the only responsible thing to do. Let's examine the facts reasonably for a moment. The people who keep their dogs tied to a tree, or wandering loose, are the ones who should spay and neuter the most. They are also the least likely to do so. Most folks of a reasonable intellegence can responsibly keep their pet dog from breeding. That having been said, you may be wondering what the advantage to keeping a pet intact may be. Again, I defer to the facts. Male and female hormones play a huge part in the make-up of our personalities. Yours and mine. So is true of all creatures. Can you imagine the different person you would be if your abilty to produce sex hormones had been stopped before it ever started? If it had been done early, you would have never developed the physical characteristics that make you the sex you are. Which is my other point. Done early in dogs, affects the grow plates in dog's bones, and a host of other things. Vets promote early spay and neuter much the same way physicians promoted tonsilectomies in the sixties, and promote hysterectomies, and caesarian births today. It's about the money.
Zette is my favorite of our black dogs. She's gorgeous, full of sugar, piss, and vinegar.Finnicus is the low-dog. He never got to be a boy, or a girl.
The photo I worked from on this one, Nikki took. The sun was peeking out alittle. That time of year the angle of the sun is low making siloettes, and shadows. The dog's wild game raised a mist of snow that caught the sunlight, and made the dog's outline more dramatic.
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