News

March 15, 2008. At the Barron Ranch, Sloughouse, CA. Both Tara and Djinn earned their Lure Coursing Qualification running together on the 700 yard circuit.

February 2, 2008. At the Lure Coursing practice field in Livermore, CA. both Tara and her son Scirocco's Blue Djinn completed there first certified lure coursing circuits.

January 3, 2008. A rainy winter is here in northern California and the dogs are various shades of dirt. Dakar and Djinn play hard every morning and no matter how many baths they have, they're always a mess at the end of the day. Having two almost grown puppies is a new experience. They really are devoted to each other and are almost inseperable. Djinn will certainly miss Dakar when he goes home to his family!

While things are quiet here, we're excited about all the new puppies at Talisman, Kumbaya, and Evening Wind kennels. All of them are various relations to our Tara and look like a promising pack of pups! It will be so much fun watching them grow up.

Tara finished up the racing year in 11th place nationally. It seems she should have done better, but then we have to remember she also had a litter of puppies in 2007 AND managed to miss all the spring races. So we think 11th place is pretty impressive for a momma!

Look for another Scirocco litter in 2008!

October 15, 2007.Our Brewer got his much needed 2 points in the BRNC weekend races 13/14 October. So now he is the second SRC champion in our home of Silken Windhounds.

September 20, 2007. Hard to believe it's September already. All our good intentions to keep this page current through the puppy raising process went right out the window. The Sands of Time litter is almost 8 months old now; all happy, well-adjusted, beautiful, well-adjusted youngsters with loving families. Djinn stayed with us and delights us every day with his antics. He's too smart and busy to stay out of trouble for long! Kali has become the first tandem riding silken (via a Burley trailer), and Dakar has been busy camping in Colorado. Sultan is living it up with the rich and famous in L.A. and Khamsin, who is now Echo, is charming folks in Michigan.

In racing news, Tara finished 2006 at number 2 in national points! She deeply regretted missing all the early 07 racing events just because of puppies. And then she missed the first lure coursing event when she was in heat in July - bad luck all round. Brewer only needs 2 more points for his SRC title. With 4 BRNC races this fall and one RCRA, we're hoping he collects them both before December.

We're going to be attending our local El Dorado Hills dog event, "Bark in the Park", on October 7th and on October 20th and 21st we'll be at "Boofest", the California Silken event, at the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds. Drop by and visit us at one or both!

We've banded together with our other California owners and breeders and have started our own club, Silken Windhounds of California, to support racing, showing, rescue and publicizing our beautiful breed at a more local level. Check out the new club web site for photos and Boofest information. Members are welcome!

February 5, 2007. We have named our puppies with a Desert Theme, Our first litter is called "The Sands of Time". Our Gallery has been updated with pictures taken at week one (Feb 4th, 2007). To inquire about puppies from this litter, please go to our Litters page.

January 30, 2007. We lost our tiniest girl Sego Lily who is now in Puppy Heaven.

January 28, 2007. We have puppies! Tara and Brewer got together late November 2006 for romance. Six puppies were born January 28th. Four boys and two girls.

November 2006. Busy, busy, busy! This month we've had 3 different racing meets, one with Borzoi Rescue of Northern California, one with River City Racing and the most eventful – our own ISWS California meet, the first ever ISWS meet outside of Silkenfest! Lots of silkens turned out – 15 to be exact, plus a beautiful bundle of Rubia and Talisman puppies too young to compete. Despite rather grim, unpleasant weather we had a ball and the biggest news of all was that Tara completed her straight racing championship! WOOHOO! Even though it wasn't a surprise to anyone who's seen her on the track, we are proud to say the least.

And not to be outdone, Brewer garnered more points toward his SRC and is halfway there now. Even Wiley picked up a half a point of his very own!

Flying Tara on the Right

Brewer Finishing

Wiley mid-track

October 2006. It was a long hot summer here and things were quiet for the Scirocco hounds. Aside from a trip to the beach and obedience classes, everyone stayed home and tried to keep cool. (You can see the beach photos in the gallery section.)

In September our dogs showed at the IABCA show in Antioch, CA. Brewer took a Best in Group and completed his UCICB International Champion title. Wiley was still in the puppy class at 17 months and received his JHA International Champion title AND his JHA National title. Way to go, boys!

With the cool October weather, racing resumed again and we were there. On Saturday, October 14th 10 silkens showed up to race with an additional 4 pups out to practice. Tara won her first two races and took home 1.5 points toward her championship. Wiley got to show his stuff for the first time and he's no slouch. He won his first race of the day! Brewer got two first places as well. The following day 14 silkens raced, our best turnout yet, and Tara won her first two races plus the overall meet to score another 4 points! The boys had various "issues" and an off day, but they'll be back in a few weeks to give it another go.