Our salukis do like running free in deep, clean and dry snow very much!
But as you can see in the picture there are also some problems - especially in warm or wet weather...



^ Nasima is trying to get away from the ice clods under her paws last winter... :( ... February 06


< Lottie checking environment on the ice of a small lake in our neighbourhood in March 06 B)


Photo: SonjaH

Young Asham, 7 months old, in his quite first contact with SNOW... :unsure: ??...
November 06

Great photo's, I love to see them in the snow!

Tariq has trouble with the snow between his toes too, Ameerah has less toe fuzzies so tends to ok.





I wish they would stand still for a few seconds!



Huge snow drifts starting to melt in this pic



Fudge my first Saluki

^ Wonderful pictures - and hounds! Open fields, ice and snow and happy salukis running free are the most beautiful things you can see...



^ Lottie on the lake in March 06, in fluffy, dry snow and several minus degrees...

Photo SonjaH

...and then enjoying life in this way, in front of the fireplace -_-

Try spraying cooking oil on the bottoms of their feet before heading out. We usually have about 4 feet of snow on the ground before winter is over.

Photo SonjaH

"Wow!... cooking oil under my paws... perhaps I would try it!"
(says Asham, 8 months)

Today snow is falling again. :o All the world is white!

Oh I wish it would snow here! :(

I love the snow, everything seems so clean and fresh. Ilove beening out with dogs when its been snowing you can see all the tracks of animals and is good hunting epecially with the ferrets.

Yes, snow is like an open book - you can read a lot of things in it! Like this! ---> http://www.oulu.fi/northnature/english/eng...umijalengl.html hmm.. :( I cannot open the pictures in my apparate now..... :wacko: - but I hope you are able do it B)

Saluki: Do you have ferrets as family members... ?? :lol:

Edit. :huh: and now I know a little bit more about ferret & rabbeting....
http://freespace.virgin.net/ken.knowles/ferrets/index.html

Here is a video of us Ferreting and one of my Ferrets in their home, a shed outside lol :blink:

Great! The white ferret is beautiful. Thank you :) ! It's a hard work with these animals, too - they are eating pellets as food, I guess - and the salukis do'nt hunt the ferrets... B)

No they are fairly easy to look after, you must handle them well from young though. I feed mine rabbits, etc. You can buy dry (pellet) complete food very like complete cat or dog food but only tried it once and went back to the whole carcass food.

The saluki are brought up from pup with the ferrets so are well used to them and would nerver harm them.

Beautiful pics!

This is titan last winter in his first snow fall!

Finally w i n t e r with a little snow and -20 degrees Celsius
I wish you all great winter days with your hounds!

Photo: SonjaH

^ Lottie and Asham inspecting the fence around our home

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^ Asham and his territory

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^ Lottie and Asham enjoying snowgames....

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^ .... and football playing ;)

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^ Afterwards...

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^ Mirre, 18 years old: "Take away that camera, please!" :wacko:

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Lottie prefers warm places :)

Minis 20c!! We had minis 24c for one night/day in 97/98, it was so cold it hurst to breath at first. Great photo's, I am so envious. :( We have had no snow at all here.

I doubt will get any now.