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Greetings From Saudi
Topic Started: Oct 16 2009, 07:21 AM (434 Views)
Kags	Oct 16 2009, 07:21 AM Post #1
Newbie Posts: 9 Group: Members Member #303 Joined: October 16, 2009	Hi, My name is Karen, I am an ex pat from UK currently living in Saudi Arabia. I am currently owned by the lovely Miss Stella, a desert bred bitch, and I also have a weim called Eric. Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Stella keeping Eric in order :lol1: Great to have found this board and I look forward to reading the threads.



Saluqihounds	Oct 16 2009, 12:01 PM Post #2
Administrator Posts: 1,568 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 31, 2006 Gender: Male Location: Scotland	:welcome: Karen. How is life for you in Saudi? Are there still plenty of Salukis? Do you get to hunt Miss Stella at all? She looks very snooty. Loving Erics expression, says it all doesn't it lol.



Kags	Oct 16 2009, 12:36 PM Post #3
Newbie Posts: 9 Group: Members Member #303 Joined: October 16, 2009	Hi, Thanks for the welcome. Saudi is OK, I guess it is what you make it really. As a woman you don't have a lot of freedom, I am not allowed to drive a car so I am very reliant on my husband for getting around. Something I find difficult to come to terms with at times, but hey we have work and are thankful for that in times of a recession. I am in my 4th year here now and my husband is in his 6th (I refused to come initially :lol1: ). There is a large Saluki community over in Khobar, but sadly I live in Riyadh and have not seen one here, we live on compounds and unless weather permitting the dogs can go to the desert, they don't get off compound. She is the only one on our compound, in fact I am the only one to have large breeds. I rescued Stella from a horrible pet shop in the UAE, not really sure how she came to be there. She spent the first 6 months of her life in a crate with her siblings in their own filth. She was absolutely terrified of everything when she first came to me to the point she ripped her own fur out from the stress, she also had a really nasty tail injury, as she was attacked by an older dog and at one point we feared she may lose it. I worked very hard to save it and she has done really well, she still has a kink in it where it was broken but it healed well. She has a hormone imbalance and suffers from pseudo seasons and has been a real challenge. She is far away from the scraggy little dog we first brought home, but has taken a lot of time to get there. Now she is a very forward dog, which makes me smile, given what she was like in the early days. She is my first Saluki, I have always had weims and been involved in weim rescue for a number of years. She is very snooty and has a way of making you feel like a cockroach under her gaze :lol1: Poor old Eric is most definitely the underdog, she is boss and lives up to her gender. I don't hunt with her but I would love to, she has a very high prey drive and would hunt dust. I am not sure how I would even go about being able to do that here, I am afraid she is confined to a life of a princess laying on couches and being beautiful. :$



arcticgun	Oct 16 2009, 01:05 PM Post #4
Advanced Member Posts: 313 Group: Members Member #233 Joined: May 7, 2009	Hello and welcome Karen! Miss Stella is a lovely looking bitch and a credit to yourself especially considering the condition she was in when you rescued her! I love the picture where it looks like she is trying to strangle the wiem :lol1: your right about that gaze that makes you feel 'unworthy' as well :lol1: I hope you enjoy the forum, its full of good information and there are some genuine top class people who are always ready to help out in any way they can, all in all a great little community ;) atvb Richard



Yasmina	Oct 16 2009, 06:30 PM Post #5
Advanced Member Posts: 52 Group: Members Member #113 Joined: November 8, 2007	Kags Oct 16 2009, 07:21 AM Hi, My name is Karen, I am an ex pat from UK currently living in Saudi Arabia. I am currently owned by the lovely Miss Stella, a desert bred bitch, and I also have a weim called Eric. Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image Stella keeping Eric in order :lol1: Great to have found this board and I look forward to reading the threads. Karen,Hallo My name is Stevo Stevanic living in Holland. I would love to use this chance to learn from you . Sins you live in Saudi Arabia wich must be little different from UAE where I have two Imports I would love to agein use a chance to learn from you about regions where the Salukis are in that country . You mensune a region Khobar ! ..can you tell more about the region and life of the locals there,relation between people and Salukies. I wouldn't minde if we would have our conversation on this great site but if for some reason you will prefer to right me on my prived mail is :stevanicsalukies@gmail.com . Fotos ...would you have some more fotos of her in standing position or playing,running....I would love to observ her .It is a unic chance for me to absorb how she is bild .I must say I like her color and she is kin .Agein thank you for rescue her .To me evry saluki must be preserv . It is so sad that you as a female can't join the hunt there but you travel in EU I guess you will be able to do it.Who knows where she has come from and where she hunted before ::))) I am about to make a move to Iran(kurd part ) .....is serch for an ultimate hunter agein ....my Yasmina is now 7 and will soon need to be replace with a nother young comer ....alldo I do have her blod line I will Import agein but this time from real COO as it is Iran . Here if I sucseeded you will be able to see an vilage from Iran where I have learn from a frind are thears tazi's coming from . So much till now I will post this foto and some more fotos of my hounds just after I learn how to do this on this siet :fishing1: Stevo . Attached to this post: 100_7110.jpg (347.52 KB)



Kags	Oct 17 2009, 11:16 AM Post #6
Newbie Posts: 9 Group: Members Member #303 Joined: October 16, 2009	Hi Richard, thank you for the welcome and your kind comments. Stella has really blossomed from the sad dog she was when we first rescued her. She is very beautiful and very cheeky these days. It does make me smile, considering how afraid she was. She has been with us for almost 2 1/2 years now and will be celebrating her 3rd birthday in January. Unfortunately for poor old Eric, she doesn't just stop at strangling him :lol1: :lol1: Posted Image she also likes to try and bite his face off! Stevo, thank you so much for the welcome. The Saluki community I mentioned in Khobar is an ex pat community and many of the salukis are rescues. There is also a lot in Doha in Q'atar, again rescues. I have read some horrific stories of Salukis being thrown from cars, and if the police are called they shoot them, or in reality, they are using them for target practice because people who have witnessed the spectacle say it can take a couple of hours until the injured dogs are finally cornered and killed. There are a couple in rescue in Doha both full and crosses that have been shot. Of course I know of Saudis that keep them and hunt them and love their dogs very much, but sadly there is a lot of cruelty goes on towards animals here. I am sure there are Salukis in this region too, but Riyadh is quite unique in that it is a VERY conservative area and compared to other regions very strict in respect to Muslim culture. It is forbidden to exercise dogs in public and the Muttawa (religious police) clamp down on this. Here are a couple of photos of her standing for you to see her better. Posted Image Posted Image Posted Image A rarity is her sitting, she is still very skinny here and has little fur on her tail Posted Image This is her as a pup playing with Eric in my dining room, which had thankfully been emptied :lol1: (again she has little covering on her tail). My Weim just adores her and I think secretly he loves having an athletic blond draped across him, even if she is trying ot bite his face off! :lol1:



shaairah	Oct 17 2009, 11:22 AM Post #7
Advanced Member Posts: 436 Group: Members Member #40 Joined: November 1, 2006 Gender: Female Location: Finland	Welcome to the forum Karen! I love your writings in Saluki Insights - that is you isn't it? I have in my pack of COO Salukis a bitch from Qatar, Lublub, whose parents are from Saudi Bedouin :)



Kags	Oct 17 2009, 11:31 AM Post #8
Newbie Posts: 9 Group: Members Member #303 Joined: October 16, 2009	Yes, I am behind Living With Infidels! :lol1: :lol1: We are not as bad as she makes us out to be, honest ;)



shaairah	Oct 17 2009, 03:12 PM Post #9
Advanced Member Posts: 436 Group: Members Member #40 Joined: November 1, 2006 Gender: Female Location: Finland	Cool, it's hilarious!! :lol1:



Saluqihounds	Oct 17 2009, 04:27 PM Post #10
Administrator Posts: 1,568 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: March 31, 2006 Gender: Male Location: Scotland	Kags Oct 16 2009, 12:36 PM Hi, Thanks for the welcome. Saudi is OK, I guess it is what you make it really. As a woman you don't have a lot of freedom, I am not allowed to drive a car so I am very reliant on my husband for getting around. Something I find difficult to come to terms with at times, but hey we have work and are thankful for that in times of a recession. I am in my 4th year here now and my husband is in his 6th (I refused to come initially :lol1: ). I thought it must be a tad awkward for you being out there, but like you say needs must and of course you have the most wonderful Saluki which you would not have were you not there. That would be reason enough for me lol. There is a large Saluki community over in Khobar, but sadly I live in Riyadh and have not seen one here, we live on compounds and unless weather permitting the dogs can go to the desert, they don't get off compound. She is the only one on our compound, in fact I am the only one to have large breeds. I rescued Stella from a horrible pet shop in the UAE, not really sure how she came to be there. She spent the first 6 months of her life in a crate with her siblings in their own filth. She was absolutely terrified of everything when she first came to me to the point she ripped her own fur out from the stress, she also had a really nasty tail injury, as she was attacked by an older dog and at one point we feared she may lose it. I worked very hard to save it and she has done really well, she still has a kink in it where it was broken but it healed well. She has a hormone imbalance and suffers from pseudo seasons and has been a real challenge. She is far away from the scraggy little dog we first brought home, but has taken a lot of time to get there. Now she is a very forward dog, which makes me smile, given what she was like in the early days. She is my first Saluki, I have always had weims and been involved in weim rescue for a number of years. It is wonderful that you have rescued her from such a horrendous existence and brought her out the other side with such confidence in herself. My first Saluki also had a terrible start in life and and was terrified of everything, if he happened to move his food bowl whilst eating he would not go near it again he was so scared that it moved, everything had the potential to harm him. We also got through it and he gained confidence and literally became fearless in time so I know what you mean when you say it makes you smile. She is very snooty and has a way of making you feel like a cockroach under her gaze :lol1: Poor old Eric is most definitely the underdog, she is boss and lives up to her gender. I don't hunt with her but I would love to, she has a very high prey drive and would hunt dust. I am not sure how I would even go about being able to do that here, I am afraid she is confined to a life of a princess laying on couches and being beautiful. :$ Lol, that is exactly it. I've always found Saluki's to dominate in a mix pack they seem to be born leaders. Perhaps an opportunity to hunt will simply present its self in time, in the mean time she is well suited to a life as a beautiful Saudi princess! I thought I knew of you from somewhere but I couldn't put it together, now know Saluki Insights. :Good:



saluqi	Oct 18 2009, 04:25 PM Post #11
Advanced Member Posts: 334 Group: Members Member #76 Joined: February 20, 2007 Gender: Male Location: England	:welcome: nice looking dogs



Annie	Oct 19 2009, 09:32 AM Post #12
Member Posts: 24 Group: Members Member #141 Joined: June 23, 2008	:welcome: Hi Karen, great to read how Stella has come on, Living with the Infidels is great, it makes me smile, thanks.


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