Dar el Hindiyas Jalal and his sieblings became teens today!
Happy
Birthday, dear oldies, Jariya, Jalisa, Jaliya, Janan and Jalal!
We miss
Jazara, Jamila and Jamal.
måndag 26 maj 2014
lördag 26 maj 2012
Happy Birthday! - Grattis på födelsedagen!
Happy Birthday Jariya, Jalisa, Janan, Jaliya, Jamila, Jamal & Jalal!
Today you are celebrating your 11th birthday!
(Jamila, Jamal, Janan & Jalal)
tisdag 3 januari 2012
söndag 25 december 2011
söndag 25 september 2011
Padiya 1/5-98 - 7/9-11
Vår lilla Paddelina (Caravan Pan el Hindiya) har fått somna in. Det har redan gått några veckor men tomrummet och saknaden finns här. Hon var en rar liten tik, som lyckades hålla sin position här som flockledare. Tyvärr blev det aldrig några valpar, så med henne försvinner den sista länken till vår allra första saluki Hindiya (Nord Ch Kashmanis Kayesha), som hon i mycket liknade, både i karaktär och utseende. © Text & Photo - Gerd Andersson
torsdag 16 juni 2011
Happy Birthday Amir, Amira, Amina & Anisa!
Six years old is a decent age! Finally, Amir and Amina are no longer "the Puppies" as I used to call them.Sex år gammal, då är man inte längre valp! Så äntligen har jag förstått så nu är inte Amir och Amina längre "Valparna".
torsdag 26 maj 2011
Happy 10th Birthday!! Grattis på 10-årsdagen!! Jaliya - Jalisa - Jalal - Jamal - Jamila - Jariya - Janan and in our memories/ i våra minnen Jazara!
©Gerd AnderssonMy sweeetie pie - Jamme Jammelina - I can't imagine how time flies - Now we are waiting for Calle and Jalal coming from Sandhamn - We are going to have a fun day!
Min egen lilla sötnos Jamme Jammelina - Svårt att förstå hur tiden flyger iväg! - Nu väntar vi på Calle och Jalal som kommer in från Sandhamn. - Vi ska fira syskonen hela dagen!
lördag 23 april 2011
Happy Easter, Joyeuses Paques, Glad Påsk!
My forever Easter girls, Ch DeH Hafiya & Ch DeH Haliya, are gone since long but will be celebrated this time of the year!
Ch DeH Hafiya & Ch DeH Haliya, kommer för alltid att vara mina påskflickor. Vi minns dem med glädje den här tiden på året!
fredag 31 december 2010
Gott Nytt År - Happy New Year - Bonne Année - Gluckliches neues Jahr
Amir, Amina and Jamila looking forward the new year 2011.
lördag 25 december 2010
tisdag 7 december 2010
Derafsch & Osjan's great great granddaughter - Fardos el Arab Cane
Winter greetings from Jessica Andersson and her "Sani" Fardos el Arab Cane!
onsdag 24 november 2010
måndag 22 november 2010
Cosmos & Suzi headstudies ©Julia Holder, Greendale Salukis
Jariya's daughter Grassland SJ Suzi sired by Grassland TSH Sackett and Jariya's grandson HawksView's Secret of the Cosmos (Grassland SJ Shadow x TSH HawksView's Pan Zareta)
onsdag 22 september 2010
TO BE OR NOT TO BE - A TRUE SALUKI!
©Gerd Andersson
Saluki people in the Western countries do not possess a superior of knowledge to the people in the Middle East, who have hunted, bred and owned the Saluki in the traditional way for many, many generations and centuries.
I'm very fortunate to have friends, collegues, students and neighbours from the regions where the Saluki originates. In my profession of teaching Swedish to immigrants and refugees for more than 30 years, I've met a lot of people from those regions. Further more I live in the neighbourhood outside Stockholm in Sweden, where most of the foreigners have settled down. So there have been a number of occasions where I could learn and still learn about the traditional and original Saluki.
I can understand why certain Saluki colours and patterns are rare to the extinct in the Western countries. There are simple explanations. A rare colour, pattern, a special coat or trait are often looked upon with suspicions and some times believed to be a sign of impurity. The smooth coated Saluki still has believers who think it's impure. Even though mutations of smooth coated Saluki has been proven from feathered parents. So are the case with the selfblack or bluegrey Saluki even though you can trace the pedigree back to the original imports.
And now the brindle patterned Saluki must be impure because the Greyhound is brindle and as the Greyhound was mixed with the Bulldog from which it got the pattern some centuries ago, it's a mixed breed and therefore a brindle Saluki must be impure. However, the brindle pattern existed in the Middle East before the Bulldog was even created.
England has a long tradition of breeding lurchers and longdogs, which are mixed breeds. This is an explanation why Saluki people in England always have been suspious of the brindle pattern as a sign of impurity. So I guess, that's why the Honorable Florence Amhearst didn't favour the pattern and bred further on with her homebred brindle or that was not good enough for breeding or very simply, she didn't like the pattern. Like Vera Watkins, breeder of the Windswift Salukis, didn't like black Salukis so she never kept one from her breeding. People were prejudiced as they are nowadays.
That tradition of breeding lurchers and longdogs didn't exist in the regions where the Saluki originates! In Turkey and Iran, there can be accidental breedings but the outcome is never bred from and it's is called by another name other than Saluki so one will know that it's not a true Saluki.
At my very first visit at the von Iransamin Salukis in 1989, I was also ignorant, as I told Cyrus Sattarzadeh that he must have had a mixed bred Saluki. He was very polite and answered that his wife, who didn't know too much about Salukis had brought that selfblack with her from a trip to Iran. (Contrary, she knows a lot about Saluki and one of her ancient relatives was married to a Shah of Iran.) Cyrus Sattarzadeh was brought up with Salukis in Miandoab in Iran, where his father was a famous hunter and breeder of Salukis, later on he moved to Teheran where he was working for the UN and involved in the dog scene also competing with a Grand Danois at dog shows. After the Iranian revolution he came to stay in Hamburg, Germany.
Back home I told about my visit to the old ladies Sigrid Norman and Maj Benthammar of the Ibinore prefix, who started the post war Saluki breeding in Sweden. You can imagine how ashamed I felt when they told me that they had selfblacks as well as a donkey grey in a litter in 1961, sired by Zorro el Saluk out of the black and tan BIS winning Int Ch Ibinores Fatima. In his book "Vinthundar", Bo Bengtsson, describes Zorro as a bluegrey. His pedigree goes back to the first imports and this very small strain of the selfblacks/bluegreys is coming down from Ch Hassan el Bahrein (Ch Sarona Kelb - Hosha el Bahrein) imported to Germany by Gullan Lindroth, kennel el Saluk. Zorro el Saluk was owned by Gullan Lindroth's dear friend Vivan Bonander, kennel Gana, who bred the very first Saluki litter 1926 in Sweden out of Sarona Shuna, a grandchild of Ch Sarona Kelb, and sired by Ch Timsa el Sollum, who originated from Egypt.
There was no more breeding of selfblack and bluegrey in Sweden from that line. Why? Because the selfblack has a dominant gene and if you don't chose to breed a selfblack, the colour will go extinct. The Ibinore ladies kept a creme bitch from that litter and her 3 litters never contained any selfblack or bluegrey. But, this old strain of selfblack and bluegrey is still bred in Germany and also successfully introduced to Finland in the last two decades.
The year 2001, my dream come true, Osjan von Iransamin, a lovely Saluki bitch whose parents, the Racing Ch Arash von Iransamin and Sagi az Miandoab were imported from Mahabad and Miandoab in Iran by her breeder Cyrus Sattarzadeh. The purpose was to improve my old line breeding with a complete outcross. Later that year, Derafsch, the sweet gentle male, also Iranian from Bokan, came to share our lives. Both had unusual colours and pattern compared to the Western bred Salukis of modern time, but not for the region where they originated!
The Western bred Saluki has traditionally been line bred and therefore the recessive colours and patterns are more common like in the Arabian peninsula and Anatolia in Turkey. Contrary to the mountainous parts of Eastern Turkey and North Western Iran, where outcrossing is more of a tradition, and there you will find a broader variation of type, colour and pattern. Selfblack, bluegrey and their variations are rather common but the brindle is more unusual. They are from dominant colour genes which will not easily be hidden under the e/e yellow or going extinct as often can happen through linebreeding.
Five years ago, and 44 years since the very first litter with selfblacks in Sweden, Derafsch and Osjan von Iransamin produced a litter of four puppies. A selfblack female and male, Racing Champion Dar el Hindiyas Amira and Amir, a black shaded or maybe brindled with tanpoints female, Amina and a very dark shaded bluegrey, probably brindled female, Anisa.
Derafsch was a black brindled tanpoint with a black spotted white chest and Osjan was a very dark shaded grizzle. Her dark shaded grizzle parents had produced brindle pattern in both of the N- and O-litters von Iransamin. Those dark shadings are not analyzed like the selfblack and brindle pattern in the Schmutz investigation. So there is more to learn about the genes involved.
Osjan's grandchild through her daughter Pary von Iransamin (dark shaded red), Dawidan's az Rubah (e/e yellow) produced a selfblack puppy to a black tan bitch. Another Osjan grandchild through her daughter Dar el Hindiyas Jariya (brown shaded grizzle), the bluegrey Grassland SJ Shadow produced 5 selfblacks to a black and tan bitch.
Some people are talking about dividing the Saluki into two separate breeds! The recent imports from Iran and their offspring should be put in a different KC box called Tazi. Tazi is the name of the Saluki in farsi, the Iranian language. Iran was Persia before the revolution 1979. The Saluki was from the 19th century called Persian Sighthound and in some countries like Sweden, 'persisk vinthund' and and is still called 'lévrier persan' in France. The very first registered imports to Germany came from Teheran in Persia.
So there has never been a thought of different breeds from the beginning so why on earth are people coming with such ideas now? And what would be the outcome and the benefit from such a decision? Has the Western bred Saluki become truer than the recent arriving traditionally bred Salukis from Iran? Do the Iranian Salukis deserve not to be called Salukis in the West but by Arabic speaking people in their country of origin Iran they are still named Saluki?
Saluki people in the Western countries do not possess a superior of knowledge to the people in the Middle East, who have hunted, bred and owned the Saluki in the traditional way for many, many generations and centuries.
I'm very fortunate to have friends, collegues, students and neighbours from the regions where the Saluki originates. In my profession of teaching Swedish to immigrants and refugees for more than 30 years, I've met a lot of people from those regions. Further more I live in the neighbourhood outside Stockholm in Sweden, where most of the foreigners have settled down. So there have been a number of occasions where I could learn and still learn about the traditional and original Saluki.
I can understand why certain Saluki colours and patterns are rare to the extinct in the Western countries. There are simple explanations. A rare colour, pattern, a special coat or trait are often looked upon with suspicions and some times believed to be a sign of impurity. The smooth coated Saluki still has believers who think it's impure. Even though mutations of smooth coated Saluki has been proven from feathered parents. So are the case with the selfblack or bluegrey Saluki even though you can trace the pedigree back to the original imports.
And now the brindle patterned Saluki must be impure because the Greyhound is brindle and as the Greyhound was mixed with the Bulldog from which it got the pattern some centuries ago, it's a mixed breed and therefore a brindle Saluki must be impure. However, the brindle pattern existed in the Middle East before the Bulldog was even created.
England has a long tradition of breeding lurchers and longdogs, which are mixed breeds. This is an explanation why Saluki people in England always have been suspious of the brindle pattern as a sign of impurity. So I guess, that's why the Honorable Florence Amhearst didn't favour the pattern and bred further on with her homebred brindle or that was not good enough for breeding or very simply, she didn't like the pattern. Like Vera Watkins, breeder of the Windswift Salukis, didn't like black Salukis so she never kept one from her breeding. People were prejudiced as they are nowadays.
That tradition of breeding lurchers and longdogs didn't exist in the regions where the Saluki originates! In Turkey and Iran, there can be accidental breedings but the outcome is never bred from and it's is called by another name other than Saluki so one will know that it's not a true Saluki.
At my very first visit at the von Iransamin Salukis in 1989, I was also ignorant, as I told Cyrus Sattarzadeh that he must have had a mixed bred Saluki. He was very polite and answered that his wife, who didn't know too much about Salukis had brought that selfblack with her from a trip to Iran. (Contrary, she knows a lot about Saluki and one of her ancient relatives was married to a Shah of Iran.) Cyrus Sattarzadeh was brought up with Salukis in Miandoab in Iran, where his father was a famous hunter and breeder of Salukis, later on he moved to Teheran where he was working for the UN and involved in the dog scene also competing with a Grand Danois at dog shows. After the Iranian revolution he came to stay in Hamburg, Germany.
Back home I told about my visit to the old ladies Sigrid Norman and Maj Benthammar of the Ibinore prefix, who started the post war Saluki breeding in Sweden. You can imagine how ashamed I felt when they told me that they had selfblacks as well as a donkey grey in a litter in 1961, sired by Zorro el Saluk out of the black and tan BIS winning Int Ch Ibinores Fatima. In his book "Vinthundar", Bo Bengtsson, describes Zorro as a bluegrey. His pedigree goes back to the first imports and this very small strain of the selfblacks/bluegreys is coming down from Ch Hassan el Bahrein (Ch Sarona Kelb - Hosha el Bahrein) imported to Germany by Gullan Lindroth, kennel el Saluk. Zorro el Saluk was owned by Gullan Lindroth's dear friend Vivan Bonander, kennel Gana, who bred the very first Saluki litter 1926 in Sweden out of Sarona Shuna, a grandchild of Ch Sarona Kelb, and sired by Ch Timsa el Sollum, who originated from Egypt.
There was no more breeding of selfblack and bluegrey in Sweden from that line. Why? Because the selfblack has a dominant gene and if you don't chose to breed a selfblack, the colour will go extinct. The Ibinore ladies kept a creme bitch from that litter and her 3 litters never contained any selfblack or bluegrey. But, this old strain of selfblack and bluegrey is still bred in Germany and also successfully introduced to Finland in the last two decades.
The year 2001, my dream come true, Osjan von Iransamin, a lovely Saluki bitch whose parents, the Racing Ch Arash von Iransamin and Sagi az Miandoab were imported from Mahabad and Miandoab in Iran by her breeder Cyrus Sattarzadeh. The purpose was to improve my old line breeding with a complete outcross. Later that year, Derafsch, the sweet gentle male, also Iranian from Bokan, came to share our lives. Both had unusual colours and pattern compared to the Western bred Salukis of modern time, but not for the region where they originated!
The Western bred Saluki has traditionally been line bred and therefore the recessive colours and patterns are more common like in the Arabian peninsula and Anatolia in Turkey. Contrary to the mountainous parts of Eastern Turkey and North Western Iran, where outcrossing is more of a tradition, and there you will find a broader variation of type, colour and pattern. Selfblack, bluegrey and their variations are rather common but the brindle is more unusual. They are from dominant colour genes which will not easily be hidden under the e/e yellow or going extinct as often can happen through linebreeding.
Five years ago, and 44 years since the very first litter with selfblacks in Sweden, Derafsch and Osjan von Iransamin produced a litter of four puppies. A selfblack female and male, Racing Champion Dar el Hindiyas Amira and Amir, a black shaded or maybe brindled with tanpoints female, Amina and a very dark shaded bluegrey, probably brindled female, Anisa.
Derafsch was a black brindled tanpoint with a black spotted white chest and Osjan was a very dark shaded grizzle. Her dark shaded grizzle parents had produced brindle pattern in both of the N- and O-litters von Iransamin. Those dark shadings are not analyzed like the selfblack and brindle pattern in the Schmutz investigation. So there is more to learn about the genes involved.
Osjan's grandchild through her daughter Pary von Iransamin (dark shaded red), Dawidan's az Rubah (e/e yellow) produced a selfblack puppy to a black tan bitch. Another Osjan grandchild through her daughter Dar el Hindiyas Jariya (brown shaded grizzle), the bluegrey Grassland SJ Shadow produced 5 selfblacks to a black and tan bitch.
Some people are talking about dividing the Saluki into two separate breeds! The recent imports from Iran and their offspring should be put in a different KC box called Tazi. Tazi is the name of the Saluki in farsi, the Iranian language. Iran was Persia before the revolution 1979. The Saluki was from the 19th century called Persian Sighthound and in some countries like Sweden, 'persisk vinthund' and and is still called 'lévrier persan' in France. The very first registered imports to Germany came from Teheran in Persia.
So there has never been a thought of different breeds from the beginning so why on earth are people coming with such ideas now? And what would be the outcome and the benefit from such a decision? Has the Western bred Saluki become truer than the recent arriving traditionally bred Salukis from Iran? Do the Iranian Salukis deserve not to be called Salukis in the West but by Arabic speaking people in their country of origin Iran they are still named Saluki?
onsdag 28 juli 2010
Scheref is gone!
Osjan's and Derafsch' old friend is gone! Scheref as well as Derafsch came from Bokan in Iran. Both were imported to Germany by Cyrus Sattarzadeh, knl von Iransamin. When Eva Quirbach, a photographer moved back to Sweden 2001, he came to live with her.
Yesterday Scheref was put to sleep surrounded by his family. He was very tired and in bad health due to a tumour in his lungs. His family and friends as well as his companion Ravan von Iransamin will certainly miss him a lot. He had a gentle manner and was an outstanding stunning male with lots of carisma.
Scheref had some nice achievements in lure coursing. He also sired a lovely litter out of Dar el Hindiyas Jaliya al Garamiya. The most outstanding of his offspring is Garamiyas Ghadwa living with Renée Devaux, knl Sharaf-al-bait in Switzerland.
Yesterday Scheref was put to sleep surrounded by his family. He was very tired and in bad health due to a tumour in his lungs. His family and friends as well as his companion Ravan von Iransamin will certainly miss him a lot. He had a gentle manner and was an outstanding stunning male with lots of carisma.
Scheref had some nice achievements in lure coursing. He also sired a lovely litter out of Dar el Hindiyas Jaliya al Garamiya. The most outstanding of his offspring is Garamiyas Ghadwa living with Renée Devaux, knl Sharaf-al-bait in Switzerland.
torsdag 15 juli 2010
Dar el Hindiyas Amira new Racing Champion!
Congratulations to Amira and her owner Pirjo Puttonen, knl Yuzak. We are very proud of the beautiful Amira's achievements.
onsdag 16 juni 2010
Happy Birthday Amira, Anisa, Amina and Amir!
Today we celebrate the A's 5th birthday. I wish them all a wonderful day with lots of freerunning and goodies in company with family and friends!
Amina at the racetrack ©Conny Alexandersson
söndag 30 maj 2010
Late Birthday wishes/Sena födelsedagshälsningar
This is a very late Birthday wish to Jamila's sieblings, Jalisa, Jariya, Jaliya, Janan, Jamal and Jalal! I hope they all had a very nice birthday with their families. Jalal will celebrate his birthday when Calle is back from NY.Except for the greyish nose one would never think Jamila is nine years old!
En mycket sen födelsedagshälsning till Jamilas syskon, Jalisa, Jariya, Jaliya, Janan, Jamal and Jalal! Jag hoppas alla har haft en trevlig födelsedag med sina failjer. Jalal får fira sin födelsedag när Calle kommer hem från NY.
Man skulle inte kunna tro att Jamila redan hunnit bli nio år om det inte vore för den grå nosryggen. Hon är fortfarande ungdomlig i sitt sätt. Någon tant lär hon nog aldrig bli!
©Gerd Andersson
lördag 1 maj 2010
Damir
Damir (f.88), som valp i grabbatagen med kattkompisen Benny. Tyvärr hade han hunnit bli för gammal till Osjans första kull här.
lördag 24 april 2010
In memoriam Osjan von Iransamin 1996 - 2009
©Gerd Andersson
Yesterday, it was one year since Osjan left me in grief. I miss her in sweet memory! She came to me as a mature self-confident lovely girl and she left me with two lovely litters. How grateful I am to have shared her life and the lovely gifts she gave me. Osjan was a wonderful loving mother to all her puppies. Forever in my heart!
I går var det ett år sedan Osjan lämnade mig i stor sorg. Jag har henne i ljust minne! Hon kom som en mogen självsäker strålande tik och hon har lämnat mig med två underbara kullar. Jag är så tacksam för att ha fått ynnesten att ha hennes här och de underbara gåvor hon skänkte. Osjan var en underbar och kärleksfull mor till alla sina valpar. Hon kommer för alltid att ha sin plats i mitt hjärta.
lördag 17 april 2010
torsdag 8 april 2010
Jalisa still in winterlandscape!
Jalisa in Dalarna in the middle of Sweden. There is still lots of snow in April this year.
tisdag 22 december 2009
fredag 20 november 2009
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