Azawakh Nation: September 2015

9/23/15

desertbred Ishagahan...sire of Aouakkas and Sakkat

9/15/15

Kusaylah Al-Ifriqiya...

...and his three brothers Takoba Al-Ifriqiya, Khamseen Al-Ifriqiya (exp. Germany), Talat Al-Ifriqiya (exp. Austria) and his sister Iman Al-Ifriqiya were the result of crossing the only breeding daughter of my original pair of Azawakh Jana (Reckendahl's Isesi X Al-Hara's Tarada) to Kel Tarbanassen Firhoun (bred by Gervais Coppe). I sent Jana to Switzerland to Monika Kessler's to be bred to Firhoun as he was a brindled Azawakh and therefore different genetically in some way to my original solid-colored pair.

He was the Sieger Donaueschingen in Germany in 1998.

I still have people who contact me to tell me how much they admired Kusaylah and I am thankful for that.

He liked to kill chickens.

...ancestry...

9/11/15

Elhennet Kel Dahoussahaq with her puppies day 21...

a clarification...

...of my three kennel names Azawakh Al-Ifriqiya, Azawakh Idiiyat-es-Sahel and Azawakh n'Aidhan wa n'Tafouk: I bred seven litters using the suffix Al-Ifriqiya (ifriqiya being the greek/arabic word for the ancient homeland of the Tamasheq/Tuareg, now called Tunisia). Then Gabriele Meissen and I bred two litters together: Alem'nemehal Al-Ifriqiya X Taytok, db and Kusaylah Al-Ifriqiya X Taytok, db. These two litters bear the suffix Idiiyat-es-Sahel. After these collaborations Gabriele returned to her kennel name Tombouktou's (i.e. Tombouktou's U'Tidet). I decided to breed forward keeping the name Idiiyat-es-Sahel. I did so up until the birth of my most previous litter at which time I changed to the kennel name Azawakh n'Aidhan wa n'Tafouk.

Incidentally, I named my first litter without using a kennel name. The breeding was of my foundation pair Reckendahl's Isesi and Al-Hara's Tarada. The puppies (two females and three males) from this mating were named Hanif, Jana, Sarr, Mohga, and Temet. Only Jana bred forward and is the sole dam line back to Tarada and through her back to the "Yugoslavian" dam line of the Sahelian bred Lara. Jana had two daughters that bred forward, al hamdullilah: Iman Al-Ifriqiya (X Firhoun Kel Tarbanassen) and Chenna Al-Ifriqiya (X Safouan Al-Ifriqiya).

9/10/15

my beloved Iman, al hamdullilah...

...Iman Al-Ifriqiya was out of Jana, the only daughter to breed forward from my original pair of Azawakh Reckendahl's Isesi and Al-Hara's Tarada. She was sired by Firhoun who was bred by Gervais Coppe in France, kennel Kel Tarbanassen, and owned by Monika Kessler of Switzerland, kennel Kel Dahoussahaq.

For me, Iman was a unique realization of beauty. She had a desert dryness and at the same time was incredibly feminine. She was named after the Somali born model Iman [an Arabic word meaning "the soul"]). Her line is carried forward by several daughters, grand-daughters, and now great grand-daughters, al hamdullilah.