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    Moser/Andis/Oster clippers

    Forget about cordless. Corded human clippers can work (my wife stole my cheap corded Wahl clippers that I had bought from Walmart for use with our Spinone and it got the job done with a lot of time and effort) but they will bog down and are not the best tool for the job... Ultimately we...
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    Silken Windhounds

    Honey is a cuddler... she'll jump on the couch, aiming to land perfectly to press against you with her head the back of your neck. She's also a Velcro dog - it impresses people at the dog park when I get up to leave and she goes right to my side and walks out with me off leash (I put a leash on...
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    Love The New Lens (+ Finally Feels Like Fall)

    135mm is a pretty classic focal length, which is not far off from what your 85mm gives you... I am more a fan of that than I am the 50mm on crop sensors... I have a 75mm/1.4 that is manual focus that I love for portraits. Your pictures look fantastic!
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    Halloween Costumes

    She didn't exactly like it, but she's very stoic and tolerant of oh so much....
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    Question about contracts

    Reactive, bad false pregnancies, food allergies... all of which were observed in our bitch and in littermates from 2 breedings of the same parents, plus cancer in the line.... we would never breed our dog as a result. We wanted to spay because of the false pregnancies, once we decided there was...
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    Question about contracts

    Both of us had the same contract, co-ownership till championship. In my case, the terms were met over 2 years prior (actually, at this point, it's approaching 3 years... it was 2 years when we asked for permission to spay, and then 7 months of fighting for permission to spay I finally said "oh...
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    Question about contracts

    Agree with you there... in addition I'm against early spay/neuter, but that's another discussion altogether.
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    Question about contracts

    That's pretty much what my breeder did, though, so I see that as a valid perspective... I just posted above that my breeder took 7 months to grant permission to spay my bitch... during this conflict, I was asked to test heart/hips/eyes and I declined to do so. My understanding is that they...
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    Halloween Costumes

    Won a contest in our town today with out Silken Windhound... we had to enter the pig separately, so he didn't really function as a prop during the contest...
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    Question about contracts

    My wife and I already decided to spay our bitch... our breeder took 7 months to grant us permission to spay her (required my the contract to be discussed...) and she still refuses to sign the dog over to us. My friend who owns a littermate did all his health testing, selected a stud dog...
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    Silken Windhound Headshots

    Playing around with a new camera lens...
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    Deciding on a future smaller breed

    That's true... my 22.5" tall Silken weighs about 35 pounds...
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    Non-shedding or longhaired breeds

    Spinone Italiano perhaps?
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    Deciding on a future smaller breed

    The breed standard is 18.5-23.5" so you'd have to be very selective...
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    Does such a breed exist?

    Silken Windhounds :) http://www.silkenwindhounds.org/ "The Silken Windhound fills a niche in the sighthound breeds with a smaller, long-haired hound. The Silken Windhound may bring to mind a small Borzoi, but Silken Windhounds are uniquely their own breed. Silken Windhounds are bred to an...
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    Tell me about WINDHOUNDS

    Our Silken Windhound shares the house with an 10 pound Italian Greyhound, a 40 pound Aussie Mix, and a 70 pound Spinone Italiano... we also keep chickens, cats, a pig, and many small animals... she's been socialized with them all and is great with them. Proper socialization is key with any...
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    Tell me about WINDHOUNDS

    9 weeks old... About 10 weeks old... you can see just how difficult these dogs are as puppies! About 3 months old...
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    Tell me about WINDHOUNDS

    Like I said previously, my Silken is a Velcro dog and although I would never actively take her off leash with nearby vehicle traffic, I otherwise consider her bulletproof for off leash activities... with the strong caveat that any sighthound that does take off after something can be FAR away...
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    Question about contracts

    I bought a dog on a show contract that listed co-ownership till championship. I am also friends with another owner of a dog from this litter. Both of us finished our dogs championships, years ago in my case, neither of us fully own our dogs to this day. The breeder prides herself on producing...
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    Tell me about WINDHOUNDS

    Hello, you can probably expect a few Silken owners to contribute here, this thread is making the rounds on facebook. I am the very proud owner of a Silken Windhound (as well as an Italian Greyhound, Spinone Italiano, and an Aussie mix...) and obviously am here to sing the praises of this...
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