{"id":1733,"date":"2014-07-07T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/blog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2014-07-07T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T13:03:44","slug":"checking-in-on-faridah-the-saluki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/checking-in-on-faridah-the-saluki\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking In On . . . Faridah-the-Saluki"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1736\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/faridah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1736 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/faridah-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"faridah\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Babies being rescued in the desert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It was hot and dirty and mom was doing her best to raise Faridah and his three brothers in the desert all alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, volunteers found them before heat and thirst threatened the little Saluki family and they were all rescued. \u00a0A warmed-hearted volunteer eventually brought darling Faridah from Qatar to SHUG (and the rest of the family also came to America in search of forever homes as well through another rescue.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faridah didn\u2019t have to wait long. The cute little boy was seriously a foster-fail-in-the making before Kadri Kallikorm-Rhodes and her family claimed him. Renamed William aka Sweet William, he was a typical puppy and more than once being cute was extremely important as he took leisurely to house-training and developed opinions about a variety of things such as the desirability of walking in the snow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kadri picks up his story:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>William has turned into a sweet, sensitive and regal hound, with a wide circle of dog and human friends (he continues to be terrified of Miss WhiteyPaws, the family feline, so cats are still a work in progress).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1739\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1739\" src=\"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSC00647-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet William, all growed up!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet William, all growed up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His favorite things include running off-leash in his best friend's yard, terrifying rabbits and squirrels, wrestling with his buddies, and lounging on soft surfaces. He has recently discovered a passion for sunbathing (especially on blankets laid out by his unsuspecting human friends), and continues to give the best nose-kisses, especially to his family and beautiful young human females.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He came through both the basic and intermediate obedience classes with flying colors (although recall can still be spotty, and loose-leash walking in presence of prey animals or other dogs is a bit of an issue!) He is a wonderfully sweet couch potato, and we cannot imagine life without our Darling Silly Dog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was hot and dirty and mom was doing her best to raise Faridah and his three brothers in the desert all alone. &nbsp; Fortunately, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[182,183,45],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saluki","tag-adopted-dogs","tag-qatar","tag-saluki-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52ryM-rX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighthoundunderground.com\/http\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}