Mielikki's Hunt Borzoi

19/12/2024

Remember no one is arguing the need for sterilization, it's the surgical technique that should be reevaluated. Hysterectomy and vasectomy achieve the same goal but leave important hormones intact according to science.

"The association between gonadectomy and timing of gonadectomy, and the risk of canine cranial cruciate ligament disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract
Objective - To determine if gonadectomy in dogs is associated with the risk of cranial cruciate ligament disease (CrCLD) and to quantify the magnitude of the association.

Study design - Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Sample population - Comparative studies with gonadectomized and entire dogs, with CrCLD as an outcome measure.

Methods - A systematic search of the primary and gray literature was performed. The effect size of the outcome measure was defined as the OR and 95% CI. Subgroup analysis was performed with s*x, breed, and age at gonadectomy. A pooled OR (95% CI) was generated from meta-analysis of relevant studies. Certainty in the body of evidence was rated with the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) framework.

Results - The literature search yielded 1398 results and 24 relevant studies were included for synthesis. Gonadectomized female (pooled OR = 2.293, 95% CI = 1.768–2.945) and male (pooled OR = 2.117, 95% CI = 1.665–2.691) dogs were both at increased odds of developing CrCLD in comparison with entire female and male dogs, respectively. Subgroup analysis showed that gonadectomy at 1 year or less was consistently associated with an increase in odds of developing CrCLD in both s*xes. Overall certainty in the evidence was rated as moderate. All included studies were observational and no controlled trials were available.

Conclusion - In data with moderate certainty, gonadectomy is associated with increased odds of developing CrCLD in both s*xes, particularly in dogs gonadectomized at 1 year of age or less.

Clinical significance - This study provides an estimate of the true effect size of gonadectomy on the odds of developing CrCLD, which may be useful for clinical decision making surrounding gonadectomy and the timing of gonadectomy."

19/12/2024

DC Silkenswift Bounce Into First Dawn SC SGRC3 FCH 1/1/11-

Bounce was an oops litter for her breeder. Her mother was really bad with silent seasons. She was one of I think six puppies, The only spotted one.

I hadn’t planned on getting a puppy from this litter. But I needed this puppy because she brought joy back into my life after losing my gossip. at three months old she was jumping on top of adult size dog houses. This the nsme bounce ❤️

 I had hoped she would be my next rally dog with the way she like to jump on top of things, but alas, she inherited the stubborn gene from her mother, First. We fondly referred to as the First FU gene . She was willing to do it on her own terms. But she was also willing to wander off and ignore you.

The only thing she was willing to do every time you took her out was run. She quickly finished her field championships, including winning a large open entry at the 2013 BCOA national. She also won that years BCoA racemeet, highly contended with really beautiful runs from some of the top dogs in the country

She was number one LGRA Borzoi that year

She was a lesson in frustration in that I got her two points shy of finishing her ORC and she stopped finishing the last race of the day. She would run beautifully the first two races of the day, and the last of the day? She would get to the last turn, jump the fence and run the inside track. 🤦‍♀️

I gave up on oval racing 😂😂

One of or maybe her first show out, we were showing at MAHA. We were going around the ring, and out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly saw Bounce in the air. She was heading towards a table of very fragile trophies. I managed to catch her in air and drop her at a run and keep going. That same day, she launched herself into the air on top of a bush that she thought was solid.🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

She never respected her breeders Dutch door. I think it was 4 feet high, if she got into the dog room, she was over that door and somewhere in the house being naughty.😂

Onceshe walked across a wall of wired crates in order to get close to the ring to see what was going on. She also had the bad habit of putting herself on the grooming table ringside.😂

She honestly earned her nickname “no no bad dog”

She finished her ring title rather quickly, and the one time we tried to show her as a special, she told everybody to go Ef themselves. She acted like she had never been trained, had never entered the ring. It was mortifying. And that was the last time she ever entered the ring. She said I finish that title. I’m done.

Unfortunately, she was not as spectacular in the whelping box, did not inherit her mother‘s easy fertility. I bred her a number of times and did not get any puppies. I feel finally did a last ditch effort with my Duckie, live cover, at which shortly there after she paralyzed herself.

She recovered from that and actually ended up pregnant with one puppy boy, Ryder, who took after his parents in speed. He lives in a lovely home in North Carolina. We can’t wait to see what he does in the future.

I think her stubbornness is what helped her get over being paralyzed. The vets wanted to put her down because they thought she was in pain but she wasn’t, she was frustrated that she couldn’t stand up. She also knew she was not supposed to potty in the house. And that really upset her

Once we got her home, she was up on her feet and staggering around. In fact, the second day she was home, she took off on me. Like a staggering drunk, and I was laughing too hard in glee that she was actually walking.

It didn’t take her long to return to normal. And I think it was that bullheadedness. Some trainers will tell you dogs are not stubborn, but I beg to differ. And I really do think it’s what saved her life. She soon returned to normal, using her son as a toy, bullying the other young dogs. Because she was a punk

She has slowed down the last two years, but she took off on me and ended up in the golf course. All because I fell for her doddering old dog routine.🤦‍♀️

She is fast heading towards being the oldest borzoi I have ever owned, with Touchet being the oldest. Touchet was much more frail at this age, bounce is still running around at almost 14. It’s not as nice and beautiful when she was younger, but she is still damn speedy

She is currently curled up on my bed. Yes this 14-year-old bozo still jumps onto my bed, which is not a low bed. She is bossy. She is bratty. A shark for her cookie, and I hope I get to enjoy her for a couple more years.

15/12/2024

Minnie is a 1/2 sib of the Disney pups. If you’d like to know more about her contact Kari McCloskeys

13/12/2024

Happy first birthday to the Disney song puppies!

13/12/2024

12/12/2024

Mielikki Hinote Can’t Keep A Secret SGRC
10/4/12-

Teela came from the secret litter. Her mother’s name was secret, and we kept telling secret to give up her secrets. And it just had to become the theme of the litter.

She was the cutest spiciest red head, because I tend to keep girls, she was my keeper (and then her brother barged in and I kept two lol ).

She was a tank. I prefer tanks. It had a bubble butt even as a puppy of muscles. She had such a zest for life, that I was never able to show her. I have photos of her launching herself in the air. But that’s OK, she brought me Joy

Beautiful expression, soft coat, best temperament and lived up to her name

Borzoi tend to be very quiet in the house. Not Teela

She mutters

She moans

She huffs

Oh my goddess, does she talk.

When I bathed her, it sounded like a scene of Star Wars and a dying taun taun. It took forever because I was laughing so hard at the noise is coming out of her as she melted into the tub.

She helped her mother get her ROM. Very consistent thing out of the litter was they were fast and they all finished their SGRC

She was bred once and gave me the Winnie the Pooh litter. Thankfully, her daughter does not like her, although her son ponder does.😂

I wasn’t looking for a home when The perfect home showed up. How did I know it was perfect? They didn’t care about her talking. They love her talking. They instigate her talking.😂😂

It was hard, letting her go because she was secret’s daughter and gossip’s niece, but it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever ever made

Teela is currently the oldest living Mielikki Hound. She is very much loved by a lovely family in Kansas

12/12/2024

FC Silkenswift Rider of the Storm SC FCH ORC GRC ROM aka Grins or Grinnies 9/9/02-6/3/13

Grins was one of two dual litters his father and his uncle produced for his breeder Bonnie Dalzell. at the time she was one of very few people who had any luck with real dual litters. Most dual litters were most ones higher and one of the other side. Hers were almost pretty much evenly between the two. She told me that AKC contacted her back, asking her how she managed to do it. It was 2 1/2 brothers and silent seasons. Borzoi seem to be very good at silent seasons.

Two years prior to his birth, I picked up a mail from Bonnie out of her beautiful dual champion Pele. He did not mature well and stopped running after he was attacked so she told me to bring him back and she would replace him

When I went down to visit her, she brought out three young males and told me I had my pic of them. grin dragged himself across my knee and grin at me and that was all she wrote.

He was a silly goofy puppy. He grinch like the Cheshire Cat, accompanied with stamping feet and wagging tail and clacking jaws

Unlike his cousin PC, he was a devil on the field. From a young age, all he wanted to do was kill the plastic bunny.

He finished his field titles easily. When he did his JC run at 2004 national, one of the pinnacles of the breed came up to me and told me that was the way I should run. That we were losing it in the breed.

What was she talking about? He came in on his head. Got the line between his back teeth. The Huntmaster had to fight to get the line out of his mouth. they ended up pouring water down his nose, in his ears, lifting him off the ground, and I having to cut the line.

He was nuts

He ran his back off at an II, and almost died. After that, I was extremely careful about running him.

He sired four litters, and four litters had three number one daughters

the first litter was for Mufasa borzoi. Novel was MBIF FC Mufasa's Stormy Monday, FCH, GRC. She was number one Akc borzoi

The second litter was here, which gave me my NCIS litter. He was the dire of specialty point winners dual champion Ziva and my overachiever dual champion Jenny. Jenny was #1 LGRA borzoi two years in a row she went on to finish her dual champion by RSB at the 2014 national

His last litter was a litter of two, for his breeder Bonnie. The girl went on to be. MBIF Silkenswift Midnite Rune LCm who was number one in ASfA

Unfortunately, his puppies ended up not being fertile. Only ziva and Jen ever had puppies, only Ziva ever had a real litter. Both Novel & Ru ended up infertile.

He was a great dog. A great companion. With his giant grin, I felt safe as a single woman traveling. He was my court jester. Silly, goofy, sweet. His breeder asked me one year when was I going to show him. I said when he mentally matured. That never happened. He won best veteran at a PVBC specialty in spite of himself😂 but I loved that giant gray silly dork

Unfortunately, pancreatitis took him from me. Pancreatitis hospitalized him for almost a week, he came home. He was doing better.

I got a call later that day he was having problems breathing, and I met his breeder at the vet. We made the decision to euthanize him. My vet did a gross necropsy free of charge and found he had blood out through his chest, but there were no tumors.

It wasn’t until I talked to a human physician, friend of mine that I learned that spontaneous bleed out is a rare occurrence of pancreatitis. It sucks. It was horrible. And I still miss my dork.

He is behind the elf quest litter, the prince letter, the chili pepper litter, and most recently the Disney litter, and for Kalabria’s X-Files litter

10/12/2024

I am so proud of Artemis and her mom Hannah! Can’t wait to see what you guys do next year

10/12/2024

Have an adopt Dont shop maroon yammering at me the last few days. And their ignorance is annoying.

First and foremost. I believe in adopt or shop, find the dog that fits your household. Dog breeds, dog mixes, dogs. Are not interchangeable having lived with a labrador, scent hounds , corgis, a collie, a cocker spaniel, a cockapoo, and then sight hounds, I have learned what fits my household.

Greyhounds, salukis, borzoi, & silkens

Other people can handle large swatch of breeds. I can’t handle barking. I hate barking dogs. And some breeds live to bark, a.k.a. corgis and scent hound.😂

Other people have the energy and willpower to live with a malinois or a German Shepherd

Others want couch potatoes that lays on the couch and cuddles with him. People need to educate themselves and buy the dog that fits your household.

Retention is the key

One of the biggest things these ADS maroons like to say is “shelter Dogs are no different than purebred dogs.”

First, dogs are not interchangeable. Scroll up to my previous comments. Certain homes are best for certain types of dogs. herdibg dogs like to nip at heels so really aren’t recommended for homes with small children unless the parents are experienced with them.(herding dogs not kids 😂)

If you have allergies, there’s some breeds that are better than other

If you live in an apartment, barky breeds are not good, hyper dogs that need lots of exercise may not work.

It’s finding the breed that fits your household. And this can go to mixes too.

Different homes fit different breeds, and we’re not even talking about the homes that have to manage their dogs because they have adopted or bought dogs that tend to be dog aggressive. Not everybody wants to manage dogs.

If owners are honest, not every dog fits every household.
Night night
now lets stop with the pure bred crap.
Purebred does not equal bred (and actually it is estimated about 5% of all breeds are well bred. With some breeds being less a.k.a. French bulldogs, which about one percent of puppies registered are from good breeders, to the rare breeds where the majority of breeders are good breeders. The average across all breed is 5%).

It takes a lot to be well bred.

Breeding To preserve a breed. (so doodles are automatically negated.)
Health testing. actual health testing. Not genetic testing only. For this breed, anybody who uses only embark is somebody to run away from (you can find what health testing is necessary for your breed of choice off of ofa.org)
Prove their dogs. For borzoi in the United States, it is the show ring or coursing/racing. AKC titles are the only title that matters for showing in this breed in this country. (Somebody advertising only UKC ring titles is someone to run away from in this breed) Service dog work is not applicable to this breed. Fast cat titles/cat titles are not applicable for proving borzoi. you want GRC, SGRC, ORC, SORC, FC, FCH, LCx, LCM for performance titles and/or Akc CH or DC at least for ring titles
Permanently ID their dogs with their name on it for the lifetime of that dog. Because we are responsible for every puppy we bring into this world and we will take them back no questions ask.

But that’s just the start

ethical breeders pour over pedigrees. Spend hours doing Research and research to make sure they are not doubling up on health issues, temperament issues, faults.

They don’t pick a dog because it’s the closest or the most convenient or because it’s in the backyard. Sometimes the dog is dead and you’re using frozen semen, which is expensive. Sometimes that dog is across the country. (or on another continent.)

They are looking for the best dog for their girl, not just a dog of the same breed.

The breeding is the easy part.

Your job doesn’t stop when the puppies get here.

ethicsl breeders handles their puppies every day. Weigh them every day, worms them, gets them used to being handled. Starts working on socialization and getting the puppy ready for the world by getting them used to vacuum cleaners, blow dryers for dogs who have to be groomed, grooming, nails, done, etc. they set their puppies up for success from prior to birth until the day they hand them over to their new homes.

Then they scream their homes and turn away more people than they sell puppies too. Because memories having a check is not a criteria, being the right home is the main criteria. B

And then they are the safety net for the lifetime of of their puppies. Just a phone call away and their buyers know this.

What does that mean?

That it doesn’t matter what the reason is, what the age of the dog is, we will always take our puppies back. I rehomed a 10+ year-old a couple years ago when her custodial breeder died. I was given the option of rescue, but she was my responsibility. NBRf is wonderful, but she is my responsibility not theirs. And she is in the most awesome home.

Because that was my responsibility

Dogs in the shelter, they don’t have that. Their breeders didn’t care.

Most of those breeders were just too lazy to keep their girl from getting pregnant.

95%, according to one research article I found, of dogs in shelters are mutts. (This will vary, depending on areas of the country and the shelter. In my area, bully mixes are the vast majority of dogs in the shelters. Other areas have more purebred. This is on average throughout the country with most of them being found in five states ) So they weren’t bred for any sort of success. They were usually because of lazy owners or owners just wanting to give her one litter or let their kids see the miracle of birth instead of renting a video.

There was no pedigree research. There was no looking for faults, looking for common health issues. There is no health testing.

They often are not handled constantly because the owners don’t know any better or mom won’t let them (Any girl who doesn’t allow you to handle your puppy should never be bred in my honest opinion)

the breeders often don’t even know the legal age of their state for placing puppies. in many states it is illegal to allow puppies to leave the home prior to eight weeks old. And yet you will see six week old puppies being advertised. They need that time with their mother and their siblings. 10 to 12 weeks for most breeds is often better.

Some of them may try their best at screening homes, but they don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t know the questions to ask and once those puppies leave their household, they don’t care. Some will give lip service, but when push comes to shove, they do not care. They will not take their puppies back.

these are the breeder who breeds the majority of dogs in shelters. If a shelter called them up and said they had one of their puppies, on the odd chance they were actually micro chipped, they wouldn’t take their puppies back.
Because they don’t care.

The 5% of PN found in shelters are the backyard breeders and Puppy mills. These puppies are also not set up for success. the backyard breeder, they’re just looking for the same breed. They don’t even have to be papered (it’s really easy to get papers from Continental kennel club on unregistered dogs), it just has to be the same breed. And if they’re not papered, that pedigree may be siblings.

Dogs in shelters are not set up for success. They are failed from prior to birth if you are capable and willing to handle them, work with them, to live with them, more power to you. Not everybody is. And people need to buy the dog that fits their household.

I believe in adopt or shop. But shelter dogs are not for everybody. I no longer have the spoons to deal with rescued dogs and the baggage they come with from sh*tty breeders or sh*tty owners and sh*tty pedigrees.

I did real hard rescue years ago. In the trenches, pulling dogs out of crap and urine filled crates. More than one in crates with another dead dog. Dogs that had not been handled, dogs had not been fed, dogs that had so much baggage that 18 months of working with them burnt me out. Was young naïve and pushed myself too hard. Did not have an ethicsl rescue to temper me.

That and volunteering at a shelter taught me retention. Getting the dog that at your household is more important than adopting. A happy household is a happy home is a dog more likely to stay where it’s at.

Adopt or shop, buy the dog that put your household. Do you research

The OFA website and databases provide the tools needed to promote the health and welfare of companion animals through a reduction in the incidence of genetic disease.

09/12/2024

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05/12/2024

Pickle Hill’s Touchet

12 Jan 1999-
3 Mar 2013

Back in the early 2000s, I was looking for new Blood. My mentor told me to look at the pickle Hill dogs. And talking to her, I knew there was longevity there. And I wanted the longevity to tie up with a longevity that Silkenswift had and the longevity that Shefaro had.

My good friend Maria was living in California at the time and she went over to visit Fern. Multiple trips over to ferns, multiple photos and resumes of each bitch for an offered us was created and sent to me and I fell in love with a little girl named Touchet. I think she was three at the time.

Getting her from California to New York was my first and last use of a transport. She was under socialized. She’s not know how to potty on a leash. She didn’t freak out, she just froze. And they chose not to walk her and said crated her for four days. First thing I had to do when that poor girl got to me was bathe her

But she was everything I wanted, substance, rib spring, big feet, and very sweet when she came out of her shell.

I bred her to my Races, Mielikki a day at the races S.C. And got my Gossip litter

Why did I choose that theme ?

The animosity towards my foundation girl’s breeder had gotten to the point I almost quit the breed. I had one arse in Texas, one in New Hampshire, and one in California spreading rumors they were going to have my Kyra’s pedigree pulled. That they had “proof” a dead dog was actually her sire. It took me DNA ing my girl to shut them up, but they were the reason behind the Gossip theme. It seemed fitting.

I did try her again. Unfortunately, I lost the second litter when the vet refused to listen to me and we ended up having to spay her.

She lived to be 14 years and almost two months old. The longevity I wanted and a couple of her puppies also lived as long.

29/11/2024

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Conditions in Ukraine are worsening, NBRF's Ukraine fund balance is $ZERO. We are pleading for your donations to help feed the Borzoi that are counting on us. Please... help us help them.

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Choose Ukraine Refugee Borzoi from the drop down.

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Note "Ukraine Borzoi" in the memo line

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28/11/2024

MBIF FC Mielikki Fairy king MC. FCH CGC
11/24/00-5/17/07

Obie was one of 9 from my 2nd litter, and at first, was indiscernible from his siblings. Growing, eating, everything seemed normal, about 4 wks I started noticing a big difference in size, a pot belly even after I wormed them. Took him into the vet, worried, tho he was acting normal, playing hard, nothing was getting him down, he was diagnosed with a malformed colon. He could p**p fine on mama's milk, but once on kibble it started blocking him.

Cornell wanted an astronomical price for us to just walk in the door, a price I just couldn't justify on an itty bitty baby who might not make it thru surgery, my vet said let me give it the college try.

Obie made it through surgery, lost an entire lb when they cleaned out his colon, but refused to thrive on the science diet, he wanted his sibs food, nothing else. In fact, at his checkup, the vet said to put him down as he was not gaining weight. . .I took him home, and watching him grab his mom's tail and try to yank her around the box, I said no way, he's not ready

I FINALLY found a low residue canned food that he inhaled with gusto, and he started to gain weight. My calico Cleo took over mothering him since he couldn't be with his siblings due to stitches, she'd curl up in his bed and bath him and bath him, he became HER puppy, she became HIS cat.

By 6 wks this puppy had associated the opening of the fridge with cheese and would be sitting at my feet.

By the time he was 8 months old or so, you couldn't tell how sick he had been. . .I had thought with how stunted he had been as a baqby, he would never be within standard, but he did, same height as his daddy DC Silkenswift Blaze of Chaos SC, CD, LCMIV, SGRC, SORCII.

He was such a mama's boy, I never thought he'd ever cousre, but once that bunny started, he forgot I existed. .

He was my first personal Best in Field winner, in fact, finished that way, and we had fun, put a lot of miles upon the Mustang and then the Explorer running. He won a full FCH stake at the Centennial Nationals. By the last month the first year of coursing, he was #1 Borzoi, unfortunately, a competitor took advantage of the then loop hole in AKC and was able to steal the position from him, she didn't want to lose to that 'damn pet'. but he will always be #1 to me.

He was the sweetest thing in the world, never met a stranger he didn't adore, he stole my heart from the get go. . the year my life went in the toilet, he was there, always there. .I lost his mother and my siamese within 12 hrs of each other, his cat Cleo came down with CRF, and he babied her, kept her warm, they were often snuggling together, and like when he was sick, he was her nurse. . .5 months after I lost her, his pastern swelled up like a balloon. . my gut said it was bad, why not, it was the 2nd year of total hell for me, nothing seemed to go right. Bonnie told me to bring her to her, she had the amputation done and kept him while I went home to see my grandma for what ended up being the last time (We lost her the following march), and yes, it was bone cancer.

Bonnie brought him back to me the next month, and he kept me going while I packed up my household to move down to MD. . .he road in the front seat of the Uhaul like a king, piled upon huge amts of beds and blankets.

Three legs didn't stop he, he kept going, kept making me laugh, that was his job, my little fairy king. . we went to the RI nationals in high spirits, he met the ocean for the first time and tried to course seagulls, but it all came crashing down when we came home.

He was limping on the good foot, lethargic, depressed, xrays showed that goddamn cancer had come back in his lungs 6 months later. . we got almost another month together. . .that last day, he todl me he was ready, he wasn't eating, he only made the stairs at night to be with me and his cats. . .I kissed his head, and left for work, was a temp still, didn't feel right calling in, my friend called and made the appointment I hate and dreaded.

I came home, Bonnie met me at the door to tell me he'd taken that choice for me. . about noon, he died in her arms.

Nancy Hopkins said it best years ago, he was the miracle puppy, every day I had with him after that first day was a blessing and one he wouldn't've had with many breeders.

He was my first heart dog.

24/11/2024

Perfect eyeballs!

We believe in health testing here !

23/11/2024

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