Nicklas
Nicklas was born in
1967 and he got his
first saluki in 1985, a red bitch from Gunny Blomgren's breeding,
Zera'ati El Zin Ishtar (Ch Zohari Javan-Esdevaj x Zera'ati El Zafzintariyya), named "Elin".
On a trip to the
US in 1987, Nicklas was amazed by the beautiful tri smooth male
Afking Baghdad Katulnas Khalif and some of his offspring, and he decided to get a saluki with him
in the pedigree. This put him in contact with Ron & Paula at Baghdad
salukis in Australia and in 1990 he purchased a grandson of Khalif, named
Baghdad Globetrotter. "Trotter" and Nicklas were quite a special team
and those who saw them working together, remember them as a man
and his dog, with a very, very special bond between them.
Nicklas has a genuine interest in the breed,
pedigrees and breedtype. This has lead him to travel around the world, to see salukis
in different countries. The next natural step for him to take, was to
educate himself to become a judge in 2002. He is licensed to judge Salukis, Afghan hounds, Borzois, Irish wolfhounds and
Whippets. Nicklas has judged at sighthound specialties as well as allbreed
kennel club shows.
Nicklas, as well as Ingunn have been active boardmembers
of dogclubs and such. Nicklas is now part of a committee, which is in the
initial phase of
arranging a saluki breed conference in Sweden in 2009.
Ingunn
Ingunn, originally
from Norway, was born in 1971. She got her first saluki in 1983. She was an import from
Sweden, a grizzle bitch named Wenarja's Yad-Rafta (Ch Kashmani's
Lanthir-Abshar x Ch Jafara). Ingunn had her debute in the showring at
Skokloster 1984 and has showed her salukis ever since.
In 1993 she got the
black & tan bitch El-Adini Gamil (Ch Volante's Pinot-Nero x Ch El-Adini
Ahma), who was her soulmate and companion for 13,5 years. With Zala,
Ingunn won top honours in the show ring and
they competed in level III in obedience.
In 2002, when she bought Qirmizi Famenne from
Nicklas, their common interest was a start of a close relationship,
and in 2006, this lead to them getting married. Ingunn has been a partner in the
kennel since 2004.
Ingunn is a
vet-student and besides dogshows, she has a genuine interest in saluki
health and the saluki history in Scandinavia. This has inspired her to
develop a website, with information about all salukis registered in
Norway ever and she has also participated in making a similar site about
the Swedish
salukis. She has also written an article
about the Norwegian salukihistory, from the very first import into the
country, as well as an article about the genetics of colours and
markings in salukis. Besides the salukis, which have been a part of Ingunn's life since she
was 12, Ingunn used to be a competition dancer, in ballroom and latin
and has won bronze medals from both the European and the World
championship in latin formation dancing.
You can read more about Ingunn on her
personal website, here.
The Kennel History
Nicklas' sister
bred "Elin" to "Trotter" using Nicklas' kennelname in 1992, while
Nicklas was in Australia for a year. This was Qirmizi's A-litter, but since this
was his sister's breeding, the litter is not mentioned on this site.
In 1993 another Australian import came to stay with
Nicklas and that was "Trotter's" halfsister Baghdad Azahd Sahar. These
two salukis became the parents of Nicklas' first litter,
Qirmizi's B-litter in 1994. From this litter, Nicklas kept the black-fringed
red, Qirmizi Bellarama. She is the mother of Qirmizi's C- and D-litter.
In 1997 Nicklas went to Germany and bred Bellarama
to Ute Lennartz' beautiful red male, Mata Salamata's Jadaan Khan. This
resulted in Qirmizi's C-litter, with among others, Qirmizi Cartago.
Nicklas kept a gold bitch, Qirmizi Casablanca. She is the
mother of Qirmizi's E-, F- and G-litter.
For the D-litter, born in 1999, Nicklas
bred Bellarama to his smooth import
from Australia, Baghdad Phantom.
The American selfred male Wisdom's Totally Awsome
Atom "Tommy" came to live with Nicklas in 1999, as a veteran. He
produced a whole litter of reds in 2000, in Qirmizi's
E-litter. Qirmizi Casablanca was the dam. Qirmizi Enyelle was
Nicklas' choice from this litter. Emerald went to Australia and has
sired three litters
there. Enyamba has come back to produce one litter at kennel
Qirmizi. To produce Qirmizi's F-litter
in 2001, Casablanca was bred to a Tommy-son, Badavie Seregon Camel.
Qirmizi Famenne went to live with Ingunn. Farah Keife moved to Denmark,
but came back for a visit and produced the beautiful Qirmizi H-litter.
In 2003, Nicklas imported another American saluki,
Castlebay Enzo Ferrari, "Enzo" lives with his co-owner, only 20 minutes away from Villa Qirmizi. He has sired one
Qirmizi-litter, the H-litter.
In 2004, Casablanca
was bred for the third and last time. She was inseminated according to
the Norwegian insemination method (transcervical intra uterine
insemination),
with frozen semen from the American Globetrotter-son, Shiraz Global Storm and
produced Qirmizi's G-litter, with nine puppies. Nicklas and
Ingunn's choice from
this litter was the wellbuilt cream bitch, Qirmizi
Global Temptress,."Gucci". Qirmizi Global Challenger went to
Australia and Qirmizi Global Intrigue went to stay with her sire in
California. The owner of
Qirmizi Farah Keife generously offered Nicklas and Ingunn to lease her
and in 2005 she and Castlebay Enzo Ferrari produced 10 puppies in Qirmizi's
H-litter. The grizzle bitch Qirmizi Hermione was kept from this litter.
Qirmizi Hilaal went to stay with his sire's breeders in California.
The owners of Qirmizi Enyamba offered Nicklas and
Ingunn to breed Enyamba in 2006. The sire of Qirmizi's I-litter, was
a young Finish irish-marked grizzle, Aziz Ushnisha. They produced
surpisingly enough a whole litter of grizzles, even though Enya is
a selfred.
In 2006, Carol Waymire, Hounds of Wisdom gave
Nicklas and Ingunn the opportunity to show
Wisdom's Destiny Challenger-"Mario" in Sweden and he moved from California to
live with them, from May 2006 to October 2008. He sired two litters in
Sweden during that time, one at kennel Badavie and one at kennel
Dabka.
In 2007, the close friend of Nicklas and Ingunn,
Elisabeth Espedal Hoogstrate, kindly offered them to breed her
beautiful Gaby's last litter. Gaby is Int N S Ch NV-05 Barakisch Narm
Xubi de Lunduki. She was bred to Int Nord Ch Badavie Seregon Camel,
who is a "Tommy" son. This breeding resulted in Qirmizi's J-litter,
with five males and two females.
The year after, in 2008 Nicklas and Ingunn was so
lucky to be able to use another one of Ute Lennartz' special males, to
breed to Qirmizi Heninne. Three puppies, two males and one female was
born that fall in Qirmizi's K-litter. |
