We bought Daisy for racing, and our first two salukis both had racing-licences. It is extremely important that we have a broad breeding base to work with and direct imports are not always the solution for this problem. So a male from this litter would add new blood and in the same time renew links to my old Sedeki lines.
A Shamali breed group at Skokloster. We did the racing during a few years in the beginning and now that lure-coursing has become an official competition form where many dogs from our breeding has been in from the start. That is not to say that they were/are the best mentally respective exterior wise, but as a whole I consider them to be the best. Here the climate is beautiful year round and perfect for raising, socializing, showing and living with dogs and puppies. Sadik Akhtar Piece of My Heart, JC, Champion Sadik Akhtar Stairway to Heaven, CGC. It was also a very emotional experience to be standing ringside watching Rayyan win BOB and becoming BIG-4 eleven years old and then winning BIS-veteran at Bodens International Show 1992. Earlier we had it in the contract that we bought back the puppies if the buyer for some reason couldnt keep the dog and that we wanted the buyer to contact us if the dog was to be used in breeding, but lately that havent been necessary since I have had the opportunity to sell my puppies to old buyers and other well-known saluki people. "Whimsy" and "Dreamy" are ready for play! If there is to be a continuation depends on a number of factors. We welcome visitors at our events and membership inquiries. We have kept one puppy from almost every litter. On the final day of the shows (Central Arizona Saluki Association) Seca, once again not only won his Veteran Dog class but went on to an Award of Merit under judge Kenneth Levison. One has to be careful when letting them loose and they cannot be treated as commandoes. The next saluki came 1975 as company to Ceiba, Daisy, or Tarana, a red bitch that came from a bloodline with racing dogs. Extend the Life of Your Dog Using Our Feeding and Care Program
"Poseiden" and "Monsoon" arrive at Gentle Giants, "Poseiden" and "Monsoon" play wildly like puppies play, Please make a Tax Deductible Donation to Save the Life of an Innocent Dog who otherwise will Die in an Animal Shelter. A properly treated saluki will be a very good friend and will give a lot of joy with his/her special way of being. It has to be persons you can trust and individuals that are healthy. Furthermore, people that import dogs must be warned that it is no solution to import unrelated dogs since there is no way of telling if those dogs carry diseases that are hereditary dominant. What responsibility do you feel breeders and judges have for the future of the breed? The breeders must be able to sift through the judges decisions when choosing their breeding material. Do you have any cooperation with any other saluki breeder? 14,000 Happy Adopters. Just drop us a note and tell us what your interests are! We planned, and I still plan, 3-4 litters ahead. It is these three whose dogs have been most important for Shamali and in whose breeding I have seen many of the most beautiful salukis I have ever seen. Also, for a few years we had a Connemara mare that we had a foal after, so it was quite natural that breeding started to become more and more interesting. From a breeding point of view I do not consider them important at all. It is now (2004) 31 years since you started with saluki. Many times when we have out bred there have been similar backgrounds further back in the pedigree. The SCGSF was the second regional saluki club in the United States to hold an annual independent specialty (the newly formed Galveston Bay Saluki Clubs specialty was held just before ours). Since I know that when it comes to ridden horses it is the forequarters that breaks first, as goes with hunting dogs as well, it worried me when I in the 70s saw entire bloodlines with weak forequarters.
From Left: Calif, Aqila, Duwliya & Bikri. Later, when I have returned to line breeding, these have not occurred again. Eventually our eyes were caught by Int & Nord Ch Wenarjas Wawailah, a very nice and beautiful black grizzled bitch who won quite a bit and was owned by Birgitta Strandborg. Our award winning newsletter, The Kiosk, is published online twice a year and is included with your SCGSF membership. The other area is, then, the hunting world. We never really got caught up with racing though, so in the end it was exhibitions that became the dominating interest.Racing in that time had started to develop towards price money, something that I was against and there were also other ideas I didnt share. I love my dogs and I feel it is a privilege to be part of the several thousand year long project that it is to preserve the saluki breed. Now last Fasqiya that has been really good; Swedish LC Ch this year and last year she won so much that she became the top-winning lure-coursing saluki 2004. carries too little weight when selecting breeding material in our breed? And judges must realize that there are breeders who do not ignore the importance of such successes, and because of that they have a responsibility for the breeds future, as well. What has your life with salukis meant to you? He is said to have been an excellent hunting dog and to have brought down a great number of gazelles. Which do not mean that one has to be totally absorbed only in ones own type, one can always try to help other breeders by lending a stud dog etc, this is a perfect area in which breeders can cooperate. Having grown substantially in the past 4 decades, our members reside all over Northern California, other portions of California and also out of state. Who/which of your litters/dogs do you think correspond best to your breeding goals? What worries me nowadays is that as a new breeder you may only put abstract aesthetical aspects on your choice of breeding material and the danger of this is biggest if one do not have a background in the hunting- or horse world or if one lacks the support from an older breeder that keeps the tradition about breeding the hunting dog modelalive. Are there any differences? If you own a Srinagar Saluki and would like to see them featured here please send us the photos and we will post them with the dogs name and anything else you would like to say about them. To import a dog for breeding purposes demands that you get a lot of information from the breeder you are buying from. Then I would like to mention three: Nils-Lennart Olsson (Ben Huri), Don Wieden (Sedeki) and Birgitta Nordqvist (Zohari). Last I also want to mention Elishamas three best-bitch placements the three years in a row that she was showed at the Tammsvik Show, -00, -02 and -03. Shamali group from 2005 with Fasqiya, Elishama, Farisa and Gazila, Right: Nils-Lennart Olsson of Kennel Ben Huri with young Amir, who, in a straight line descended from the wellknown Ben Huri salukis, Christer with Int & Nord Ch Shamali Ummi al Dirw, BIS in Alvsbyn for ConnyBystroem. Thoughts like these make me think with some sadness about breeders like Ben Huri or Zohari with the thought-through breeding that were pursued there and then. Ummi was an incredibly good bitch, well constructed and with fantastic movements, so it was with great pleasure I received that price. When I met Inger she owned a Labrador, but nourished a dream about owning a saluki. Did you feel that you got that information? Great gifts, gear, apparel, jewelry and fun stuff for pets and the people who love them! In 1977 we travelled to England and visited several breeders: Amena, Windswift, Burydown, Starflight, Knightellington and Sedeki in order to find a bitch that would fit and complement Waj without us being forced to inbreed. What have you used in your breeding; out breeding, line breeding or inbreeding? Have any salukis from your breeding competed in racing and/or lure-coursing? My Ch. I had a long discussion with Don about why one buys stud dogs. At Sedeki we found salukis with the sought-for movements; light, floating and apparently without effort. Any specific breed quality you consider important and that is fading? I will also mention Int & Nord Ch Sedeki Hamah that I got to know as a young dog and who has had such an impact on Swedish saluki breeding. Dogs from these breeders or related individuals have been pivotal as soon as I have had the opportunity to utilize them. make every effort to successfully place physically and mentally healthy salukis in need of a home. For instance the problems regarding autoimmune diseases are not simple since they are not controlled by a single gene, but of several genes and can lie dormant for several generations and then surface abruptly. I have a plan, but I realize that Im at the end of my breeding work. Adoption Info/Application
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Summer -01 she remained at home as mother to the F-litter. The SCGSF puts on two world-class Saluki Specialties each year in early October and one Match, typically in May or July. So there exist no bloodline or country where one with any amount of certainty could claim that its dogs are entirely spared from the diseases that has emerged in the breed. You must know who you import from. The dogs that survived WW2 were spread over the entire world. Knowledge about hunting shows these undisputable facts. Nowadays I do not exhibit my dogs so much so Im not really all that familiar with the competence of todays judges. It is and has been an important mission for every saluki breeder in all times, and not the least for present day breeders, to act for preservation of the different types. This thing with forequarters has rectified itself somewhat in our breed. All our litters have been carefully planned and we have kept to the track even if we have been forced to make deviations with some individual/s, but more often than not we have used some sibling, an offspring or other relative when we for some reason has been forced to make adjustments. Due to this, they might sometimes lack the understanding that is necessary in order to grasp the meaning of construction and movements in a breed such as the saluki with its origin as a hunting dog. Up to today we have had 23 champions. My impression of the old Swedish salukis from the 50s and 60s is that they often had very good forequarters. In what year did you have your first litter? Sedeki Una Uslub, who came to us from Don Wieden in -78, was in a way the first step in our search for correct saluki movements, seen that we wanted the movements that the Sedeki salukis had. Many years later, 1999, I and my daughter Elin travelled to England to visit historical places and experience the myths and tales that abound in England.