{"title":"Animal Ornaments — Dogs, Birds and an Otter","description":"\u003c!--\nAnimal Ornaments - Dogs, Birds and an Otter\ncollection | animal-ornaments | Version: R4.3SP | 2026-09-29\nKeywords: 12 | Tags: 176 | Volume-tier ordered\nContent audit: PASS\n--\u003e\u003cstyle\u003e.collection-hero__inner,.collection-hero__text-wrapper,.collection-hero__title,.collection-hero__description,.collection-hero .rte{max-width:calc(var(--page-width, 100rem) - 10rem)!important;width:100%!important;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;padding-left:0!important;padding-right:0!important;}\u003c\/style\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"mc-intro\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:calc(var(--page-width, 100rem) - 10rem);margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;\"\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0;\"\u003eA small series of animals, drawn one at a time and added only as each drawing earns its place - a golden retriever who has claimed the good chair, a beagle leaving with a shoe, an otterhound in full cry, a sea otter tied to the kelp so he does not drift off. Each is our own line drawing, black and white by design with one small flash of color where the story needs it, set in a three-inch faceted crystal round that reads from across the room on a lit tree. Boxed in white or gold, your choice, and shipped free anywhere in the U.S. Profits support hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cstyle\u003e#mc-req-a input::placeholder{color:#767676;opacity:1;font-size:0.9em;}\u003c\/style\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"mc-email\" style=\"border:1px solid #000000;background:#FFFFFF;padding:18px 18px 14px 18px;margin:28px auto 20px auto;width:100%;max-width:calc(var(--page-width, 100rem) - 10rem);box-sizing:border-box;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:0 0 6px 0;font-weight:600;\"\u003eHave an idea for an ornament? 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This one found a deck chair by the water, put his sunglasses on, and is not getting up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe breed came out of the Scottish Highlands in 1868 - a wavy-coated retriever named Nous and a Tweed water spaniel named Belle, kept for the yellow puppies - and reached the AKC in 1925. It has been one of the most popular dogs in the country nearly every year since. Ask anyone who raises them why: the golden greets the plumber like a lost brother, brings you a shoe when you are sad, and has never once met a stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have whelped a litter, shown one, placed one with a family, or simply lived with one for twelve years, you know this dog. Settled in. Certain the day is about him. Correct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own pen-and-ink golden, drawn line by line and set in crystal so the hatching stays sharp under tree lights, with one small splash of color in the glass. It hangs at eye level and reads from the doorway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor golden people - breeders, rescue volunteers, show families, and everyone whose senior is asleep on the sofa right now. Profits go to hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaceted crystal, three inches across, printed on a white back so the line work reads from across the room on a lit tree. Red ribbon. White or gold gift box, your call at checkout. 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If you have a beagle you have seen this exact walk, and you have already lost the shoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe beagle is one of the oldest hounds in continuous American use - a rabbit dog first, a family dog since, and for a long stretch of the last century the single most popular breed in the country. Small enough for an apartment, loud enough for a hundred acres, and carrying a nose that overrides every instruction you have ever given.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the beagle at his most beagle: pleased with himself, in possession of something that isn't his, and already thinking about the next thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own pen-and-ink hound, set in crystal so the tricolor coat and the one red accent hold up under tree lights. Three inches across, which is about the size of the shoe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor hound people, field-trial people, rescue people, and every household with a drawer of stolen socks. 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If you own one, you already know. If you have met one, you have not forgotten the voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBred in medieval England to hunt otters along riverbanks - webbed feet, an oily double coat, a bay that carries across water - the otterhound lost its job when otter hunting ended and nearly lost its future with it. A few hundred remain worldwide, kept going by a small, stubborn community of breeders and owners on both sides of the Atlantic who know every one of them by name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is that hound sitting on his haunches, head up, in full cry, drawn in the style of an 1870s sporting print, because that is the last time anyone thought he was ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own engraving-style drawing, set in crystal so the fine lines of the coat hold on a lit tree. Three inches across. 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An Icelandic Sheepdog does not fetch a ball so much as attack the whole idea of a ball.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe breed came to Iceland with the Vikings, spent a thousand years moving sheep and ponies across lava fields, nearly vanished in the twentieth century, and was rebuilt from a few dozen dogs. AKC recognition came only in 2010, which makes it one of the newest old breeds in America - and its people, in our experience, are among the most devoted in dogdom. You do not end up with an Icelandic by accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the dog at full speed, doing what the breed was built for: keeping the moving thing moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own pen-and-ink drawing, set in crystal so the spray and the fur hold their detail under tree lights; the ball is the one color. Three inches across and somehow still in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Icelandic people, herding-dog people, and anyone who has lost a game of keep-away to a spitz. 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He stands in the shade, keeps one eye on the horizon, and considers that a break. The job does not take days off, and neither does he.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBred for centuries to guard flocks in the mountains between France and Spain, the Pyr came to America as a livestock guardian and stayed as a family one: a hundred-plus pounds of white coat, calm judgment, and nighttime barking at things nobody else can see. Anyone who has kept one on a farm or a suburban lot knows the routine. Patrol the fence line, check on the children, resume position.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere he is standing under a striped parasol on a beach, which changes nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own pen-and-ink Pyr, set in crystal so the big white dog reads against the tree; the parasol stripe is the one color. Hang it low. He would want to see the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Pyr people, guardian-dog people, small-farm families, and anyone whose dog treats the tree as a perimeter. Profits go to hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaceted crystal, three inches across, printed on a white back so the line work reads from across the room on a lit tree. Red ribbon. White or gold gift box, your call at checkout. Ships free anywhere in the U.S.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merlinclassics.store\/collections\/animal-ornaments\" style=\"color:#6b6b6b;text-decoration:underline;\"\u003eMore Animal Ornaments\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- KEYWORDS\/TAGS: PLACEHOLDER until this item's GKP closes --\u003e\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the Great Pyrenees ornament?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"An original line drawing - on watch, even on vacation - set in a three-inch faceted crystal round, white-backed so it reads on a lit tree, with a red ribbon hanger. 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A basenji does not bark. It yodels, it grumbles, and it looks at you with the expression of a dog who has read the room and decided to negotiate. Years of that is a life well lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the oldest breeds on earth, the basenji came out of the forests of central Africa where it hunted in silence, appears in Egyptian art, and reached American homes only in the 1940s. Cat-clean, cat-independent, famously hard to housebreak, and possessed of a curled tail that carries opinions. It is a dog for people who wanted a companion, not a subordinate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis crest honors the basenji who shared a house with us, and every basenji who has run a household on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own black-and-white basenji crest, set in crystal so the black stays dense against a lit tree. Three inches across. Quiet, like the dog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor basenji people, and for anyone with a dog worth remembering every December. Profits go to hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaceted crystal, three inches across, printed on a white back so the line work reads from across the room on a lit tree. Red ribbon. White or gold gift box, your call at checkout. 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He is the only animal on the coast that ties itself to the furniture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the early 1900s the southern sea otter was presumed extinct; the fur trade had taken close to a million along the Pacific. Then in 1938 a landowner on the most inaccessible stretch of the California coast watched a raft of about fifty float past below his cliffs - survivors nobody had noticed. Every southern sea otter alive today descends from that group. They made it because nobody could get to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the rare conservation story with no hero in it: a coast too rugged to reach, and fifty animals waiting out a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur own pen-and-ink otter, set in crystal so the fur tones stay warm under tree lights; the ribbon is the one color. Three inches across, asleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor aquarium members, marine-mammal volunteers, tide-poolers, kayakers, and anyone who has watched one crack a clam on its chest and lost the rest of the afternoon. Profits go to hunger relief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFaceted crystal, three inches across, printed on a white back so the line work reads from across the room on a lit tree. Red ribbon. White or gold gift box, your call at checkout. 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