OT and silly - Re: SC - Table Puppies
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Mon Nov 30 15:39:39 PST 1998
Shari Burnham wrote:
>
> I remember reading in
> one of the "life in a medieval (fill in blank)" they talked about keeping their
> dogs in the stable, but never really specified what kind of dog.
I can't get real specific, but these must be like the dogs one wouldn't
send a knight out on...
> And what about
> the smaller dogs we use for lapdogs? I know some of them were "ladies/empress'
> dogs" in china, just as expensive pets.
These are very ancient breeds from Lapland, and existed throughout
period with a brief respite of fashionability during the career of (I'm
blanking out on the name of the painter whose name people sometimes use
as a polite euphemism for f--I mean, plump) what'zizzname, during which
period ladies did not have laps.
I hope this clears things up!
Adamantius
Østgardr, East
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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