Cabal turns the reins -er- leash of the blog back over to Mr. G.
(photo most likely by Kyle Cassidy)
(photo most likely by Kyle Cassidy)
reprinted from Probably the last Dog Photos of the Year (27 December 2007)
It's been a strange year. On the 30th of April I found a dog by the side of the road. This is what he looked like then...
He was wet, a sort of off-brown colour, smelled dreadful and while he didn't seem very bright, he was extremely goodhearted.
It turned out he was very bright, he'd just spent his three years of life on a short chain in a farmer's yard, and no-one had talked to him, or expected anything more of him than barking at visitors as a sort of canine doorbell.
And this is what he looks like now... (with a very scruffy author this morning). (Photos by Holly.)
Cabal is one of the most beautiful dogs I've ever seen. What breed is he?
He is, as the farmer who gave him to me said at the time (and I doubted at the time, because I didn't know that he was white under all that) a White German Shepherd Dog (what we called an Alsatian when I was growing up in England -- the German Shepherd became known as an Alsatian in the UK during World War I in much the same way that French Fries became Freedom Fries in the US a few years back). There would be a lot more White German Shepherds around if the Nazis hadn't decided they were racially inferior and needed to be cleansed from the gene pool. Of course, the same could be said of my family.
For more recent Cabal news, the Fabulous Lorraine posted about him just yesterday.
Labels: Be seeing you., Cabal, Cabal: Year One, Dog