July 28, 2012 Walking with the Carolina Dog

The Carolina Dog is also called the American Dingo.  It has a faun or ginger colored coat, usually with a dark brown or black muzzle and often dark colored ears.  This is an indigenous dog which can be seen in fossils of  Native American dogs.  DNA testing has shown it to be of ancient origin like the dingo and basingi  and the Korean jindo.  Most of these dogs are now domesticated and are recognized
by the UKC.

Boofa and I went for a early morning walk through the Glendale Shoals area over the bridge which is at the top of the old spillway on the Lawson's Fork Creek, breathing in the negative ions from the
spash of the water tumbling onto the rocks below.  We walked through the old mill town where there are houses in disrepair as well as beautifully refurbished homes with well tended gardens in the huge back yards, the old white columned colonial home of the owner, completely deserted and overgrown with bushes and towering pecan trees.  The Glendale Fire Dept is at the top of the hill and beyond that, in a lovely vacated church is the Glendale Outdoor Leadership School. Beside the church is a very old graveyard with dates back to 1867 on the stones that can be read, but there are older headstones whose legends have been erased by time and weather. (Nearby Graveyard Cycles
takes its name from the cemetery).

We were joined here by a Carolina Dog who followed us for our entire walk even back to our house and then disappeared.