Sussi and the Silkens at Starcastle Hounds wish you all a very joyful Christmas and may your wishes come true!

We knew from the start that Gizmo was a smart pup.
When he was 5 weeks and 6 days he had already watched his elders using the doggie door and tried it himself. Alas - he was too small! He didn't reach up and he was not yet strong enough to jump up and push the flap open.

When he was 6 weeks and 3 days he had it all figured out and he mastered the doggie door.
From that day until he left for his new home with Marith in Norway, he was completely housebroken.

Not bad for puppy that age to figure out all that by himself just by watching the other dogs.

Little Gizmo did not disappoint Marith. He has proven to be quite resourceful.
But maybe it is a bit too much when you find your 4 month old puppy 5 meters up, at the top of the roof on the garage!
(Luckily he stayed put and could later be coaxed down with some juicy meat)

Did you know that there is a Group at Facebook called Facebook Silken Windhound Society as well as a Facebook Page called Silken Windhounds?
You should check them out, you may find a lot of your friends in the Silken fancy there and some new people to connect with as well.

Kennel Starcastle Hounds Silken Windhounds wishes you the best of Holidays!

Although my dogs are in no way used to babies, they seem to love them.
A very young baby visited us yesterday and all dogs were most interested.

According to MMI, Metamorphix Inc, they can now identify what breeds your cross bred dog really comes from. Provided they belong to the 38 breeds that are mapped so far I guess ...

There area lot's of small things you'd like to buy if you had the money. Unfortunately money for all those really unnecessary things you want is scarce.

Here is a sign I would want at the gate, with a pic of my dogs and a kennel name, they have signs for you baby pram and all sort of things too.
Swedish Plate

And this company does pieces in silver from your photo, they only seem to do babies, but maybe they can be convinced to do dogs?
And look at the hand and foot prints they do from real prints of you baby in real crystal!
I can very well imagine a paw print from a dog as well

Ah, this is just a small amount of all of those completely unnecessary things I would really like to have

 

Silver Wind Kennel

 

If you want to find European Silken Windhound sites, you should visit my site, there is no other site that links to so many different European Silken sites as I do.
You should be able to find Silken sites you never heard of before.

There are photos of the puppies, one day old, on my  web site now.

3 girls, 2 boys.  Alice looked like she was born to have puppies

2 blue fawns, 2 cream sables and one dark silver or possibly blue brindle.

Alice is loosing her waist line but you can't really say her tummy is big yet.
About 3 weeks left before puppies ...

Fira, Starcastle Hounds Fire Fly was Best in Show at Crystal Palace Canine Association's Companion Show in England.

See more of Fira in England.

Read more about these Companion shows of KC in England

Two adult  pet Silken Windhound males, age 5, are in need of new homes.
I will have photos up as soon as possible.

If you are interested, please email me.

Since my own web site is old and outdated as well as detoriating and falling apart, I have started the work on a new site.

It is by no means finished yet, I started it just the other day
But if you are interested you can see it as it grows at

http://www.windhound.com

Alice was bred to Rowan and I think we will have puppies around May 20.