So, a few months went by after we lost our last Saluki and I decided to start looking for another pup to add to our family. There are many directions I could go, but only a few that would tie into my previous lineage and please my eye the same way. Sadly, the litter didn’t take, so now we wait …

We still have Django, our mutt and I’d love to add in a Corgi to herd my Dexter cows, or a Collie perhaps – I’ve always loved those dogs. We do have a couple livestock guardian dogs as well – Norah, the Maremma, and a new pup in training, Nellie, the Great Pyrenees/Anatolian. The latter is keeping me busy as we navigate training her to bond and stay with her sheep in mid-winter. But they are not Salukis.

I don’t know if it will be this year, or next year, or further afield than that, but I will have another Saluki gracing my couch in the future.

Well … needless to say, the relative lack of success in the puppy department coupled with the increasing demands of my hobby farm have kept me from spending much time updating this site or doing many doggy type events. I won’t promise to get this updated any time soon, but for those who want to keep in touch, please check us out on Facebook as that is a much easier presence to keep updated. Just type in Faridaat Salukis and you’ll find us.

For the umpteenth time, our site had been hacked, so I’ve moved it to a different server that better supports the ‘blogging’ software that this site is done in.  You will find there are images missing, since the move has broken many of the links.  We will, of course, be working toward getting those repaired, but it all takes time and I don’t have much free these days, so I’ll get to it when I get to it.

We had a rather disappointing 2013, on all fronts, with the loss of a family member, an infectious disease in my new heritage poultry business (necessitating a mass culling of all my breeding stock), and 2 failed attempts at a litter for Faridaat Dirah Talulah ‘Tula’, among other things.  I wasn’t sad to see 2013 go, but this is a new year and we have high hopes.  We are making 1 more attempt to breed Tula, this time to Faridaat Ghazal ‘Rahz’, who has matured into a lovely gentleman – masculine, but not coarse – and smooth too.  I expect a very promising bunch of pups if it works.

If that doesn’t take, then we’re moving forward with another very promising litter out of Faridaat Eo Fantomah ‘Ginger’ (Santana Blackbird x Melik Gulshen), generation 3 desert descent from Saudi/Turkish lineage, by BiS, RBiS, SBiS Ph. Can. Ch. IROKI BLACK TIE AFFAIR F. Ch (Awn Firuza Gibran ex Ch. Iroki Camille, born July 2002.) bred by Roberta Pattison (Iroki) and owned by Catherine Hays (Bryn Mynstrel). Ali has had multiple wins as a youth and a veteran – both show and lure – and was the winner of the Elana Trophy, 2010. Ali is the ultimate gentleman, an accomplished show and coursing dog and his lines tie perfectly into the western side of my pedigree. Coupled with Ginger’s solid moderate conformation and coursing ancestry this should be a fabulous litter! Serious inquiries welcomed.