Event+Ideas+-+Hounds

Harpies and Hillians, Horses and Hounds, Hunting the Hart

Guinefort, The Sainted Dog of France, on the Florilegium - []

Most Period Dog Competition - document most period breed/type, most period outfit/tack/collar, most period function, most period excuses... (use Kingdom criteria?)

Rowan Houndskeeper (wife of Keith Roberts) - group? email? Zsiggy - AKC and ASFA Field Champion greyhound

Re: [SCA_Coursing] Questions about coursing practices, etc... Deborah Wodraska Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:53:04 -0700 Dear Cait in Calontir with Corgis! Rowan, the Hound Mistress for Calontir, is at Lilies right now. Two things: Please join the new SCA Hound Coursing list which was set up to replace this old one, and please email Rowan about the requirements (I know we're under A&S, so it's a matter of just following sound and basic safety procedures for dogs and people, and having dog knowledgeable and lure equipment knowledgeable folk running the show...which is all you, I know! So, I think you should be able to do these activities without much, if any, bureaucracy.). Now, here's the really greyt part: You can accomplish both these tasks by going to the new Calontir Hound Coursing website, where you will find both a link to Rowan's email addy, and a link to the new SCA Hound Coursing Yahoo Group webpage where you can subscribe to the new list! Huzzah! Calontir Hound Coursing is at: Http://www.courtecadeno.com/Calontir_Hound_Coursing.html It's good to know you are still out there, Cait! I think I lost you when I began to post only to the new list. I need to remember to cross-post to the old, too, at least for some time to come! I know you were interested in contributing to our efforts of getting a Hunt Guild started here in Calontir as well. There is a link to that new web page also on the Calon Coursing web page. Please email me from there (my e-link is thar) and let me know what you think of it! And, any ideas for our fledgling group! Calontir Vivat! Where reside the bestest houndies in the Knowne World, in both the short leggity and long leggity variety! Mevanwy and the Men in Black, Douglas and Ambrose www.courtecadeno.com Volkshund - Yahoo! group.- [] SCA Hound Coursing - Yahoo! group - []

Coursing - in the race track enclosure? Agility Trials - in the show barn (need extra fencing for the ends?) or the beef barn Nosework - in the show barn Earthwork = tunnels and tracking (see Volkshund Yahoo! group files - under Proposed Canine Activities) Trailing - siege weapon area, everywhere Retriever Trials ? on the siege weapon course Draft work with stone boats (sledges on grass, weights proportional to dog weights) - in the dirt part of the beef barn, the show barn or outside


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Per Lindsay Townsend - " Dogs remained a favourite - so much so that nunneries tried and failed to ban the keeping of dogs as pets in various convents." Per John Aberth, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages..., p 175 - Romsey nunnery in Hampshire and several 13th century nunneries in Rouen. Lapdogs and pet squirrels shown in the Lutrell psalter. Also shown in tomb effigies.