We need a bigger sofa...

Help!

We need a bigger sofa, this just doesn't work! Mum is still sick and it starts to get boring just to sleep all day, and the best place is always occupied! It is almost so I wish she will be well again...

Lazy days...

Ha ha ha ha! Mum has got a cold, really bad, so she can not take us for her long walks! I feel a little sorry for her when she is coughing, eating medicine and looking really bad, but at the same time I am very happy as we can stay all day in the sofa! Dad has a cold too, poor him, he has never forced us to go those walks!

So, here you can see some pictures of us sleeping:

Sterling warming his feet on Hobby

Me Teefah, Sterling and Paloma (he like their coat as he has none himself!)

Hobby sleeping very hard

Knodden and Zara

Christmas

Now the Chtistmas is over for this time! At Christmas Eve Mum and Dad filled their table with lots of food and it looked so tempting; ham, ribs, sausages, meatballs and lots of other things. We hoped that they should go out for a while so we could have a little taste, but they didn't. Fortunately Mum had also made a "Christmas Plate" for us only! Doesn't it look good!? The box with chocolate is from Titti, so it is only MINE! Maybe I will share once piece each to the other dogs, but I am not sure yet...

At Christmas Day we had lovely weather, sunshine and nice, here is a picture of us when we are waiting for Mum and our daily walk, and another when we rest in the sunshine after the walk.

The day before the day...

Hi all, now there is only one day left before Christmas! Mum and Dad have cleaned the house today, from floor to roof and our room and beds too. They have also made some of the food, the special x-mas food, as pickled herring, Julskinka (Christmas Ham) and things like that, it smells VERY good, I hope we will get a taste tomorrow! I am really "bad" at begging by the table when they eat, but I do it very nicely, just sitting there pretty and calm, looking if someone have a little bit for me. Paloma "Blondi" thinks she can camouflage with the table cloth, she walks under the table and just pop her head up and hope that the cloth will make her invisable... Hmmm..., they say "blondes have more fun" but I wonder if it isn't the other way round? WE have more fun with the blonds... ha ha :-)

Dog shows, snow, oranges and sundried afghans...

I have really been busy lately. No time to write here, but today I have time for some news. First; last week, at Friday Mum started to bathe the afghans, so of course I knew there was a dogshow coming up. When she bathe them on Fridays, there is always a show in the weekend. This time, just when she was finished in the bathroom and started to brush them, the electricity went out! So, I tought; how are the affies supposed to be dry now, with no blow dryer? But I forgot where we live, she just took them out in the sunshine and brushed them there; "sundried afghans", heard about that! In December!

Saturday morning we all had to take our places in the car and off we went. The weather had changed and there were several degrees minus in the morning. At the show the affies got nothing, so much for all the work with their coat! But we salukis did well, Knodden went BOB and I Best Bitch, we both got the CAC's. We had to wait for the finals, but Knodden didn't place. Then we headed home and slept a little before we had to leave for the 2nd days show early Sunday morning. When we left it was raining, and can you belive, on the high tops of the mountains around there were snow! You can see the white on the the top of the mountain on the picture. I think snow is quite nice when being so far away. Closer to where the show was held (Valencia) it was lovely weather with sunshine and nice temperatures. In the Valencia area they grow lots of oranges, 1000's and 1000's of orange trees everywhere. Strange to think about as there were snow not so far away. Today the affies in fact did well, Hobby got a CAC and CACIB and Paloma number 2nd after her with res-CAC/CACIB. Sterling went BOB, I was Best Bitch again and we all got the CAC's and CACIB's. Then we had to wait for the finals again. During the waiting time we all took a nap in the car. Paloma should of course take the best place and was allowed to be in the front and was playing she was driving! Sigh! Childish or what?! This show is held in some large large indoor fairgrounds. You can park the car indoor, not far from the ring, so great! I am sure Mum and Dad were happy for that, as with 6 dogs, crates, grooming table, beds and stuff there is quite a lot to carry around. In the finals Sterling was placed 2nd, that was VERY good, as the saluki rarely place in the grop here. Usually the Spanish Galgo is the winner, then afghan and/or whippet. After the finals we headed home again. The weather was nice with a beautiful sunset, but when we came up over the mountains and down towards "our" valley it was snowing heavily! You can guess the spanish people drove slowly as they are not used to snow! Fortunately at home there was no snow. The last week has been quite cold and we have also had some rain now and then, so we haven't done much. Some walks and then sleeping in the sofa. Mum and Dad went away yesterday to buy food for Christmas, I am looking forward to that! Lots of goodies! Hasta luego!

Long time since last time...

I thought that it might be on time to write something so you don't think we all died after the vet visited us Tuesday! Today is Sunday and I can tell you we've been busy since then! Phew!

Wednesday Dad went away with the car and didn't come back until quite late in the evening. He had driven all the way to Madrid and brought back one of our best friends from Norway; Evy. She had been for a long trip... First she went with one of her puppies (http://www.kennelbiscotti.com/) to Madrid to pick up another pup from kennel Hyrkanya, he is sired by Sterling. Then they all 3 went in the middle of the night to San Francisco in the US. Both puppies went to Fiona Bennett (Sterlings x-mom). Evy stayed in San Francisco with Fiona for almost a week before coming to Spain to visit us. It was great fun to meet her again!

Thursday we had to stay at home alone as Mom, Dad and Evy went to Alfas Del Pi to visit Titti, it is only 45 minutes from here. Titti is from Norway but live down here now. I used to live with her before I moved to Mom and Dad. Titti have two italian greyhounds now; Benita and Alvira. Thursday was also "afghan-bath-day" and Friday I understood why... It was a dog show! We all went to the show and can you believe; I am the most beautiful of us all! Just look at the picture! I usually don't like to move too much, but now I were offered lots of goodies and really tried to make the best of myeself and won something called "Best of Breed" - I guess it means I am the most beautiful saluki in the world..., as I had to go to a show to prove that! Sigh...

Then Saturday Evy had to go back to Norway and Mom and Dad drove her to the airport. It isn't far, only 30 minutes. Later in the afternoon we got new visitors; Merethe and Lasse, they have been here before and their blogg is linked from this page. They have a saluki; Halal and two sloughis; Ahad and Warda.

Today - Sunday we all had to go up early to go to a new show. Now I was beaten by Zara, my own daughter, she won Best Bitch (only 9 months old!!!), and another pretty bitch owned by some friends of us (kennel Hyrkanya) won 2nd, then me. Sterling won a "point CAC" I have no idea what it is but it is very good... It was many salukis and afghans today, it was fun to meet them all! As I understand we all did pretty well!

Now I am very tired and want to go to sleep in the sofa... Maybe I'll have something else to tell about tomorrow... Until then... good night!

Veterinary stuff...

Hi all,

Yesterday I never had time to write. First a busy day and one of those long walks, and then in the evening the vet came to give us all injections. Our vet is a very nice young girl, we live on the way beween her office and home, so sometimes we don't have to go to her, she is coming to us. Now it was time for our ordianry vaccines, etc. After the vet had been there we all had to take a nap in the sofa...

Some friends...

We have some good friends around here. Our best friend is living with our closest neighbours. It is Sam, he is a springer spaniel from Scotland, his mom and our mom often go for walks with us together. Zara love to tease Sam and bite him in his ears. He is very kind and let Zara do what ever she wants with him. He is quite fast to be a spaniel and love when Zara is chasing him.

Some time ago there were suddely a new dog in Sam's house. It is a black pointer mix, and his name is Hugo. Hugo is quite young and was found close to the highway by a roundabout. He lived there with is mother, his dog mother, beacuse they had no people of their own. They were both very skinny and looked for food in the garbage cans. The worst thing is that Hugo had probably been hit by a car, and had broken legs, both his hind leg and in the front.

Fortunately some nice people found them and took him to the vet and fixed his legs. Then our neighbour took care of him. He is now much better and don't need the plaster around his legs more, but the pins that keeps the bone fixed are still there.

Today was the first time Hugo could get off the lead an run with Zara and Sam, he is not very good at running yet, one of the hindlegs is not working properly, but he seemed to have fun being able to play and run. I am sure he is happy now, having his own family and doggy friends!

Saturday...

When we go for a walk this is what we look like from moms view... We usually behave well as we want mom to be proud of us. So when we meet other dogs or cats are running out just in front of us, we try to stay calm. Today we went for one of the really long walks, mom and the 6 of us. On our way back we met a lady with a long haired white/ greyish dog, probably a "old english sheepdog" mix. This dog didn't behave well at all, he jumped and barked and growled, so his owner had to step a side from the path and try to make him stay calm. Mom told us to walk straight ahead, to not care about him and to behave, and we really did! We put our long noses in the air and just walked by. Only Zara was a little bit confused and wanted to look back to see if this snarling dog really didn't follow us, but the rest of us just ignored him and walked on. Mom was very proud of us and told us that we had been so good and that she was very happy with us! :-)

I should have told you today about our doggy friends that live here, but realized I have no pictures of them. So I told mom she must try to make some pictures tomorrow for me. Hopefully I'll be back then! Have a nice Sunday....

Affie bath and out for a walk...

The afghans need to have a bath more or less once a week. Today was afghan-bath-day...

They don't like it, I don't like it either, so I am very happy I am not an affie! After the bath mom said it was time for the daily walk... But... can you believe, Hobby & Paloma didn't have to go as they were still wet. Mom should blow dry and brush them when coming back from the walk she said. I seriously thought about what is worse... having a bath or going for a walk...?

If I'd had a bath, I could have stayed at home in the sofa, but on the other hand, having a bath is absolutley awful! So I really don't know... Fortunately todays walk wasn't too bad. We went the "short round", it is up in the hills just close to our house where Zara can run and play. She love to play with sticks, pieces of wood and things. I think it is because she has been playing a lot with the neigbours dog; Sam, he is a springer spaniel, "working" springer they say and this is probably correct, he is running, carrying things and retrievering stuff all the time. Tomorrow I'll tell more about our doggy friends here. About half this round there is an old house, I think it is a nice house, mom says she likes it too. We have never seen any people there, so I guess nobody lives there.

I like when we stop there to stay in the sun a bit. It is a very beautiful view from the house.

As you can see from the pictures we had a lovely day today. Sun, a blue sky, and great temperature. When we came back home mom could stay outside in the sun brushing the afghans and didn't need the blow dryer.

Gardening...

As you can see from the photo of me (Teefah) here beside I am very good at gardening, my speciality is digging! Our folks have used lots of time to plant trees, palms, flowers and other plants in the garden. We try to help them keeping it pretty...

We have heard that trees shall be trimmed; this mean you cut some branches (I think it is called "pruning") here and there to keep a fine shape of it. How ever, the folks had planted some palm trees, and we thought they were too bushy. So Paloma (Blondie) and Zara decided to do something about it. First it looked like this, see the picture above, VERY VERY bushy, don't you agree?

They really had to put in lots of effort to make it look better. I can tell you it was a hard work for them to gnaw and bite over all the leafs, it took both days and weeks! But little by little the progress become more and more visible and finally we all thought it was ok. You can see the final result on the right. Much prettier and when Sterling and Knodden wants to lift their legs on it they don't have those leafs touching their backs...

Somehow our folks didn't seem to appreciate the job, they don't have any feeling for what is beautiful or not at all! Daddy is absolutley sure the palm tree is totally dead, but mummy says that the little green thing at the top is alive and to prove it she has fenced it in. So now it is absolutley impossible to do more about it. We'll just have to wait and see what's happening. Mummy talks about taking away all plants and replace them with cactuses. I can tell you that all we hounds DON'T agree...

Finally...

Finally som news from us!



Mummy has been away on a trip for several days. Far up north where we used to live before. Her is a picture showing how it look like up there now; snow and cold! Brrr... We are very happy to be here in the sunshine! When she was away we had some lovely lazy days. Daddy and I agreed that those long walks everyday are just silly, so we have been stolling around in the garden, laying in the sunshine and had a really nice time, almost like vacation!


But today she is back, so end of lazy days..., sigh!

But it was fun too because when she came Knodden was with her. Knodden is another member of our "pack", he has been in Norway to run lure cousing and go to some shows, but suddenly he came back! I think it is because it was too cold to be there now! Here he is, standing beside the beautiful red flowers that are still in bloom here. We were all very happy to see him and have been running and playing a lot all afternoon.

More tomorrow... bye bye!

Friday...

Hi again!

Today is Friday. An absolutley ordinary day. We have been doing the things we usually do; morning walk, having breakfast, strolling around in the garden and in the afternoon going for a long walk. Today we should have been going the really long long walk (about 2 hours), but quite sudden some large dark clouds came in and we had to take a short cut back home. It will probably be some rain. I don't like rain, in fact I don't like to go for walks either. I think it is much better laying on the sun terrace if the weather is fine, or if not to have a good sleep in the sofa. Mom can never let me off during our walks, if she does I just walk home! Maybe a short run for a cat or two on the way, but otherwise staight home! Zara likes to run, she runs like crazy, up and down and here and there, to be honest I can not see the point of wasting energy like that! At the picture you can see us all at todays walk, behind us are the dark clouds... Now we will stay inside, sleeping in the sofa until dinner is served...

A little bit about all of us...

The other dogs say that I must write about them too. So here comes some info, first we are 3 salukis; me (Teefah) and my daughter Zara, she is 9 month old, and her father Sterling. Sterling is 6 years old and comes from California in the US, so he likes the sun a lot too. Both Zara and Sterling are smooth salukis, they don't have the long feathering on their ears and tail as I have.

At the picture you can see us doing what we like best, lay flat out in the sun, in front is me, to the right is Zara and behind is Sterling.

Then are the afghans, they are much like us, only much more hair! When we go for walks they get all kind of things in their coats all the time. It dosen't seem very practical, but is probably beautiful as all people we meet stop to have a look and think they are sooo cute! Here is a picture so you can see for yourself:. The dark one to the left is Hobby and the other one is Paloma, but we usually just call her "Blondie", I promise she is VERY blond! They are both 6 years old and half sisters, they have the same father but Hobby comes from kennel Elsto's in Norway and Paloma from kennel Khaos in Sweden. Says it all dosen't it: Blonde Swedish Khaos...?

Sterling is quite freezy because he has so little coat, and like to use the afghans as sleeping pillows:

We are the Caravan Hounds...

Hi there....



As to be on a blogg is something "everybody" think is cool these days we too decided to create our own blogg! "We" are a bunch of hounds, more exacly 2 afghans and 3 salukis, at least right now... It happens one or some of us come or go visiting friends, etc, so sometimes we are several sometimes less... :-)

We had a big argue about what language we should chose, we are a bunch of mixed nationalities; Norwegian, English, American and Spanish, so finally we decided in English as more people from Norway understand English compared to how many English and American people understands Norwegian, and nobody understands Spanish! We also had a huge argue and finally had to vote about who is doing the writing on our behalf, and finally I = Teefah won, as I am the oldest and being the boss means nobody dare question my word.

We used to live in Norway where it was cold most of the time of the year. A little less cold and no snow in the time they call "summer" and very cold and lots of snow in the "winter". Then a year ago we moved to heaven! Here is no snow, and the sun shines 325 out of the 365 days of the year! Can you beleive? I lived 8 years up in the cold north, and to make the balance even I have decided to stay in the sun no matter how hot it is until I've been in the sun 8 new years! Sometimes the people here come and drag me into the shade when I am about to pass out in the heat, but as soon as I get a chance I go back! If there is one cloud in sight I hurry inside and curl up in the sofa, no chances taken here!