My wildlife collection.

I didn't intend to collect all this stuff- horses were enough :)
But one day, as I was buying some new Schleich horse, my father offered me to take the tiger as well. "Look at him, he's so gorgeous!" he said. And so it all started...
So here are some of my cats :)
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Tigers
Schleich tiger with the cubs
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Papo tigress with the cub and a Collecta young tiger. I really like the Papo wild cats (as well as the dinos)- they are just fabulous. I cannot really understand why do they make such poor (at times) horses.
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These two came today. I couldn't pass by as I saw them in shop (I just wanted to buy a loaf of bread, yes..)
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Collecta panter. Has a great pose.
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Papo lioness with the cub. I suppose it's one of the the best wild cat figurines ever existed.
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She's magnificent.
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Collecta lion cub. Like his pose))
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Safari Ltd snow leopard. Great mould and horrible painting (as always).
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Schleich cats- wild and domestic :)
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Her eyes are fabulous!
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A real tomcat, isn't he?
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The other thing in wild life I admire - wolves. Maybe I started to collect them because of my love to G. Martin's "Song of fire and Ice" series, and direwolves, mentioned there.
A Papo wolf.
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Schleich and safari Ltd wolves. There's also a fox- her curious glance just conquered me.
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Some birds of prey by Safari, Collecta, Bullyland
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Cyhyraeth wrote:

I didn't intend to collect all this stuff- horses were enough :)
But one day, as I was buying some new Schleich horse, my father offered me to take the tiger as well. "Look at him, he's so gorgeous!" he said. And so it all started...
So here are some of my cats :)

...Nice figurines and the good taste Dasha! I like Papo,s big cats best of all! I,ve bouht 4 lions, 4 lioness (for pride), 4 tigres (for herd), 2 jaguars, and many, many cubs!

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Beautiful collections, both of you!

I didn't intend to collect all this stuff- horses were enough Smile
But one day, as I was buying some new Schleich horse, my father offered me to take the tiger as well. "Look at him, he's so gorgeous!" he said. And so it all started...
So here are some of my cats Smile

Beautiful cats and very nice pictures congratulations

Lovely!

By the way, you're a very good photographer.

Gabe wrote:

Lovely!

By the way, you're a very good photographer.

Agreed! a very good photographer.

Welcome to the world of cats!

Sergey
Your wild cats are fantastic!
And where did you get the skeleton from the second pic?

Mastiffcat
Thank you)

lucky luke
Thanks))

Gabe, ken yeo
You flatter me, really I just enjoy taking photos of all this stuff. And a good camera, yes.

Congrats you have gorgeous collection :)

MartinH wrote:

Congrats you have gorgeous collection :)

Thanks)

Gorgeous cat collection Cyhyraeth! and I love your photos too, they are beautiful

Such wonderful figueres, - and amazing photoes

Ohh, yes, Papo makes the most wonderful wild cats, - the lynx and puma perhaps excepted

Your collection has some of the finest figueres on the matket !!!!!

But Papo DOES make some wonderful horses also...even if I really, seriously did not want to collect them, I totally fell for them when first I had a few
Have you seen the new Icelandic horse for instance ?
And many of their heavy horses are gorgeous

PS, - great new Avatar

Also a nice big wildlife collection!!!

HKHollinstone, widukind
Thank you:)

SUSANNE
Well, I've seen the Icey on promos only, but for me he's far too similar with the Safari's one.

Cyhyraeth wrote:

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Well, I've seen the Icey on promos only, but for me he's far too similar with the Safari's one.

Only he is a mare
I will take a picture of them together tomorrow if the weather permits.
They are really very different types of horse, it is only the colour that is ( supposed to be) the same

SUSANNE wrote:

Only he is a mare
I will take a picture of them together tomorrow if the weather permits.
They are really very different types of horse, it is only the colour that is ( supposed to be) the same

Ok. I'm waiting for the photo then)

Iceland horse is one of my favourite breeds. It's great many manufactures started doing them. Hope to see another one (in different mould) from Safari.

As the weatherman had predicted, it is nasty weather today with thunder and lightning, rain and hail , not good weather for taking pictures.
But I made a try during one of the breaks in the rain

Here the Icelandic mare from Papo :
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Tölt does not come easy to this mare because of the way she is built.
Her tölt is short and stiff, because her back is a bit too short, making her scared of stepping on her front leg with her hind leg.
Her behind a bit too high, and her loin is not slanting enough to make it easy for her to get the swing of a good, smooth tölt.
The rider is pulling her head up high to try giving her shoulder the freedom to lift. It may work for a while, but any rider knows that with her head there you have no controll over her and eventually her mouth will become hard as a log

There used to be many of those kind of Iceys in Denmark, because when first a real import of icelandic horses to Europe started in early 20th century, it was horses for farmwork and for driving.

But there is still a need for them. They are often nice, calm familyhorses and good for a wonderful, relaxed ride in nature.

A funny detail is that Icelandic top-riders tend to avoid roan horses.
Originally they were mainly bred in an area in the north of Iceland, where they were used as pack-horses. So the Icelanders used to connect roan colour with horses not suited for riding

The stallion from Safari is quite another matter.
He goes world class tölt, and his rider must be a world class rider
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To see a roan Icey going like this is still very rare.
As the roan colour is very popular outside Iceland, some years ago the Icelandic farmer`s horse breeding advisors promised a huge prize to the first one who got a roan stallion judged as a first class stud horse. As far as I know, nobody won the prize, but it probably helped raise the average quality of roan iceys

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In Denmark some 50 years ago, before the strict control of breeding stallions, a roan stallion was imported. Because of his colour a lot of mares were served by him. This was a catastrophy, becase his temper was very bad, and his offspring often inherited it. Some were downright dangerous

In Iceland such horses end on the dinner table, but not here ! As nobody liked to ride the mares, they were used for breeding

This was an example of how NOT to breed colours , and good roan horses are still very, very hard to find here.

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Sorry for babbeling on again-again

Thank you very much for this info about the roan Iceys. I've seen one in Norway, or Finland (don't remember exactly), he was fantastic. But his owned said it's a common colour for the Icelandic horse.

And are there many Icelandic horses in Denmark?
When I visited your country, I saw a number of shaggy cuddly horses, but I'm not sure it was that breed.

As for the mare- she's very beautiful. Like her mane esp.
I hope new Papo equines would appear some day in our country as well. Or Ebay will become my best friend.

Thank you for this information Susanne, it's extremely interesting!! it's a shame the roan colour is so rare, I love roans.
I like the colour of the Papo one, the red hue to the mane and tail is nice.

Congratulations Daria for very nice collection of cats, big cats and other wildlife! Very good choices, wonderful figures!!

Susanne, THANK YOU so much for superb information!! I'm impressed how much You know about Icelandic horses, thank You for sharing Your knowledge with us!

Thankyou friends, I am thrilled that you also find it interesting

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Thankyou friends, I am thrilled that you also find it interesting

At least making me more appreciative to the horse breed facts!

Wow, I this is fascinating! I don't know much about Iceys, so this was all news to me. As another roan fan (with an Icelandic body in primer at the moment) I now know what color I should steer clear of!
The Papo is nice though! Their horses may not be perfectly correct, but they have such personality.

Great, thanks Ken and Sumo

Sumo wrote:

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The Papo is nice though! Their horses may not be perfectly correct, but they have such personality.

Exactly

Cyhyraeth wrote:

Sergey
Your wild cats are fantastic!
And where did you get the skeleton from the second pic?

... Oh Harriet I,ve forgot about your question! Sorry! ... Sceleton - it,s small set "Animals Sceletons" (horse, leopard, gorilla, blue whale, america habu) by "Synergy trading company Ltd" (China)

Daria, you have a really beautiful collection! I love all of your figures! Also it was a pleasure to see them with such magnificent pictures! Thanks!

Susanne! Very interesting information! We have always something new to learn with you!