But then, in a socialist flourish quite unbecoming the rugged, dog-eat-dog system envisioned by our founders (cue anthem; raise flag), the I.R.S. gobbles up a darn big chunk.
Instead of hauling loads over rugged terrain, Spot the dog instead seems to be aimed at jobs such as search and rescue, or forward scouting.
If you're unfamiliar with Reichardt's school of still-waters humanism, I'd suggest beginning with the Michelle Williams-fronted Wendy and Lucy, a girl-and-her-dog story of rugged individualism in the American heartland that crushes your heart in the lowest of registers; tiny and yet vastly searching, it's among the greatest films of the new century.
Done in rough-textured paint, it features two guard dogs on a roof overlooking vast rugged scenery -- the unknown future perhaps.
"We use our specially trained scat detection dog and spent three years tracking in rugged mountains, collecting data and refining camera sites; these videos represent the peak of our efforts".
Images of hunters and savage dogs tracking wild boars in the spectacularly rugged landscape of Corsica infuse Orso Miret's film "Rules of Silence" with a deepening sense of dread.
"El Perro" is a lovely, rugged neo-realist fable from Argentina about a man and a dog.
Sitting on a plastic lawn chair in a grubby white T-shirt and jeans as his two dogs wrestle nearby, John Schultheis looks more like a rugged camper than a homeless man battling the brutal city streets.
The dog's coat has been described as shaggy, hard, and rugged in style and it has also been described as linty in texture, giving the breed the nickname of "linty-haired terrier".
In her down time she loves spending time with her husband, two dogs, Bamboo and Truffle, cooking, Yoga, skiing and mountain biking the rugged Rocky Mountains of her home state of Colorado and the High Sierras of California.
