Wednesday 25 February 2009

Kiowa and Skadi - a wintertale... and hopefully puppies in April

We are very proud to announce that our bitch Skadi finally was mated with a dream male from the Netherlands, called Kiowa.
The first mating took place in Halsteren, Netherlands on Wedensday the 18. 02.2009 and was repeated two days in a row.
One week before the mating the male, his owner and his breeder had been over here in Sweden, enjoying the winter and giving the dogs the possibility to get to know each other.
I followed them with Skadi back to Holland where the dogs mated directly.
Kiowa descends from the belgian Kennel "Wolfwaerts" where he was born on 18.04.2001 under the name Wolfwaerts Abaloo.
He is a beautiful male with an amazingly fine and stable character.
If the mating was a success will be certain in the end of march and will be announced here of course.
A lots of thanks for everything to Marleen and Arthur, Katrien and everyone who made this possible so far!

Isa - Arktis Migina von der Eickeler Burg

Isa was born the 19.8.2005 in Germany, where she was one of 5 puppies in the A-litter of the kennel "Von der Eickeler Burg".
Her pedigree-name is Arktis Migina.


She is a medium sized female and shows a very uncommon color for this breed.
There are two different types of white Saarlooswolfdogs - snow-white with black noses and cream-white with liver-colored noses.
Isa belongs to the latter type.
Both color-types are very seldom and as far as I know there are hardly 10 of them living nowadays.

She is a very friendly dog towards people she knows but mentally rather unstable and nervy under unfamiliar conditions.
The for the breed so typical reserved behavior towards strange people and circumstances tends sometimes to increase to real panic in Isa's case.
However she made huge advances in this matter during the last months and lots of visitors here at our place improved her ability to adept to new faces more and more.

She requires a lot of petting and caressing and she is also a bit more obedient than our other bitch Skadi.
The most special thing about Isa is her enjoyment of life when we are out in nature.
She almost has a smile on her face when she is running through the forests, jumping over streams or simply playing with her older cousin Skadi.

Her social behavior towards other dogs is not that good, probably due to some serious attacks from older dogs in her younger days.
She appears somehow unconfident of herself and therefore tries to avoid any contact with other female dogs or groups of specimen at all.

There are no plans to breed with Isa yet.

Skadi - Anouk Yakima-Meyatuch

Skadi was born the 25.4.2004 in Switzerland, where she was one of 8 puppies in the A-litter of the kennel Yakima-Meyatuch.
Her pedigree-name is Anouk.


She is a medium, rather small sized grey female with a strong facial expression due to a very distinctive mask.

She is a very calm dog and mental really well-balanced, reserved towards strangers without being frightened or stressed at all.
It's always her curiosity which holds to upper hand in new or unfamiliar situations.
Usually she's not very fond of being caressed or petted by strangers, though she likes cuddling occasionally.


Her social behavior towards other dogs is rather uncomplicated as a rule.
She appears somehow self confident with her body language showing traits of dominance but usually without a tendency to aggression.

This stable character makes her our first choice for breeding.
We hope to get puppies from her this spring (april 2009).

Welcome to the Howling Northwind Kennel Blog


Welcome to the blog of the Saarlooswolfhond Kennel Howling Northwind!
This blog will be an addition and/or surrogate to our website that is still under construction.
Furthermore this blog will be more "up to date", informing you about all recent news concerning our kennel or wolfdogs at all.

It will be written in english to make all important information available to every individual who is interested in our work and our dogs.

We are living in the area of Tidaholm, a small town situated in the swedish county of Västra Götaland.
We occupy a small, typical swedish red and white house with a big yard of two hectare, surrounded by beautiful forests and near the famous Hökensås nature reservation.


At the moment we live together with 2 female Saarloos Wolfdogs :
Skadi - 4 years old and grey and Isa - 3 years old and cream-white.


The kennel Howling Northwind was accepted by the SKK (Swedish Kennel Club) in June 2008 and we plan our first litter for spring 2009.