Meerihunter

Four Salukis here and their heart resting rates are within the 44-50 range. Has your vet done a Thyroid test, Salukis can be prone to thyroid problems (so I've heard anyway). Lovely looking hound, hope he is back to full health soon.

She is worth every penny it cost to bring her in and more, of course the real effort was made by my friends in the US who bread her and reared till she was 10 months old with many trips back and forth to the vets to get her ready to travel and then driving considerable distance to get her to the airport for me for which I am eternitally grateful. I simple played the waiting game and drove a 1000 mile round trip to collect her from Heathrow, I would say worth it all so much so I intent to bring in more. .

Thanks for posting, hunting from horseback life doesn't get much better than that IMO . There is certainly nothing I enjoy more than riding out with the dogs.

Shes doing great, I'm very pleased with her so far. I had tried to put some pics up last night, but THL doesn't except Flick-r pics for some reason. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5255/5463294514_a3dbca6f62_z.jpg

I've 2 bitches here the UK coursing bred bitch is just a touch over 23" and weighs 19kg and my import is just under 23" and weighs just under 23kg I have no problem with bitches weight they are very good doers on the 3/4-1lb of whole rabbit, beef trim or chicken carcasses they are primarily feed once daily. I have two brothers here and one is very lean having had 3 bitches in season one after the other since before Xmas he has had no interest in food. The Kazakh dogs seems naturally to more solidly built dog, Being primarily a fox dog it pays to have a bit of weight behind you. I prefe

Really sorry to hear this has happen to you Brookie, best of luck in getting them back. I live in hope of one day reading that some thieving scum somewhere have bee mauled to death by guard dogs whilst attempting to steal someones dogs. Best Regards Mark

From personal experience they are second to none for working shitty ground and often able to run faster than over such ground than many lurchers and do so day in day out without injury. Left to their own devices my Salukis find and take more game in woods than my lurchers and is a fact, half the folk on here have likely never even worked a saluki in woods and small fields to know what they are talking about.

Good post lol, you have to remember that there is no one type of land that Salukis were bred in, yes a great many are used for hunting in vast open desert, but they also exist and hunt in countries in northern reaches of their range with landscape/terrain no different to here and hunting the same Hare, Fox, Badger and Roe Deer (of the larger Siberian type)plus dangerous quarry like Wolves and Boar which kill scores of dogs in these Northern regions, everyone automatically assumed Salukis are solely Desert/Hare/Gazelle dogs, not true at all. Nice video. Didn't someone say that th

Good post lol, you have to remember that there is no one type of land that Salukis were bred in, yes a great many are used for hunting in vast open desert, but they also exist and hunt in countries in northern reaches of their range with landscape/terrain no different to here and hunting the same Hare, Fox, Badger and Roe Deer (of the larger Siberian type)plus dangerous quarry like Wolves and Boar which kill scores of dogs in these Northern regions, everyone automatically assumed Salukis are solely Desert/Hare/Gazelle dogs, not true at all.

sorry but just my opinion that was crap all them dogs barking there heads of useing the jeep to slow it up and turn it not the best even if they were young dogs was some barking though The dogs are barking because they were seeing others getting out to run the Gazelle and they were not hence understandable frustration on their part, I'm assuming yours would just lay down and go to sleep with out a even a sqeak from them lol. Nowhere are they using the jeeps to slow the Gazelle down, why would want to do that? They want to test their dogs so the blasting the horn etc is to try to get the

Good read Tiff, I don't know much about the staghounds regarding backing out but my Male Saluki Farouq took a nip from a rat in his first season and back right off it which I was quite surprised at as his mother whom he seemed to have acquired much of his temperament from as gusty and fiery as they come, anyway a few months down the line he took another rat which nipped him and it was totally different outcome this time with rage taken over, since then he has taken bites from other larger beasties and never backed out in the least. That first bite can take them a bit by surprise next time I am

Unless you are intending on being out in the field with the dog a lot, stay away from heavily Saluki bred dogs. You will only (IMO) get the problems you list if the dog is not getting enough exercise/work to steady it. Clashes of interest between dog and owner are the biggest cause of problems with these Saluki types, ie dog wants/needs to hunt, owner wants to sit on his arse playing Xbox etc or be down the pub or the likes, you have to be out every day with them that doesn't just mean a walk round the block on a lead then back in the kennel. They are full on hunting dogs that don't just

lol imagine your in your boat jigging for mackeral and a f*****g great cow swims past , your mates would think youve been at sea way too long Here is the thread from a few years back which I was refering to, it's actually not hind but a buck (the memory clearly is'nt what it used to be). http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/34574-unbeleivable/page__hl__%2Bdeer+%2Bswimming

It would seem to an innate escape strategy to many spieces of deer as I'v heard about Fallow plunging into a lake to escape Salukis aswell. Also if you believe all you read the reds would also get to water where possible when being pursued by deerhounds of old where by they would wait to finish any dog foolish enough to follow out of their depth.