Running on the Beach Owned by Mike and Ellen Bailey
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| All we know of the Ridgeback evolution is limited it is a noble symbol out of Africa's untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which conditions the affairs of dog and man. When carnivores were a constant threat to man's survival, the wild ridged dog adapted, he attached himself to man and they became a team. Each was a distance runner, able to travel tirelessly for hours, over rough terrain. They learned each other's ways. Who became the caretaker? Man and dog hunted cooperatively in groups the Ridgebacks were faster and more accurate than the arrow. Running silently on the hunt, the Ridgebacks displayed dazzling expertise - sighting its quarry antelope, impalas, sable, eland, ostrich and baboon succumed to his agility and speed as it paced itself alongside and then shoulder charged its prey to the ground. | |
