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A small kennel promoting performance and sporting dogs in mid-Michigan.

11/03/2026

❤️🤍💙 Don’t forget to vote today! 💙🤍❤️

📬 You won’t see me there… because I already voted by mail!

🦅 If you’re interested in voting by mail in the future, checking your voter registration, finding your in person polling location, or have other questions, check out: https://mvic.sos.state.mi.us/Voter/index

🗣️ Let your voice be heard!!!

10/25/2026

🍁 Out in the woods 🍂

The girls are working on their fitness so they can rock the show in just a few weeks 💪 Hand walking is a great way to work those muscles they’ll need to show off their best gait.

Most breeds perform at their best when they are conditioned using both controlled and free exercise. Hand walking at a trot, strength exercises, and sport training are good for targeting specific areas. Playing with their people or dog friends and hiking in the woods are our favorite ways of getting in free exercise.

💜 Melioris Ilex, “Thistle” at 1yr
❤️ UKC CH Wyndolyn Nazirra, “Nettle” at almost 5yrs

📸 Photography by Jenna Price- thank you!!!

10/25/2026

Training with friends ❤️

Sometimes it’s hard to relax and just do the work when there’s always so much on my mind. It’s so nice to get out to train away from all that sometimes!

10/23/2026

🎃 The GLSW Silken Spooktacular entries are closing TODAY, 10/23/2026, at midnight 👻

🗓️ November 7-8th, 2026
📍 Lansing, Michigan
📬 Online entries preferred! Use the Jotform or email a PDF
📄 Premium and entry instructions in "files" on Great Lakes Silken Windhounds (GLSW) page

🩺 We are very pleased to announce the addition of an OFA Thyroid Clinic on Saturday November 7 at the show site, from 8am-noon.
📥 $150 total per dog ($135 cash or check to Dr. Arnsman, $15 credit card to OFA)
📝 Forms are in "Files" on Great Lakes Silken Windhounds (GLSW) page. Please print and fill out both forms, and bring to the clinic, for every dog being tested!

🏆 Trophy sponsorships still available!

🤫 Help support the club by bidding in our Silent Auction on November 7th
🎁 Check out the “I Love my Silken Windhound” basket below featuring Cindra Grooming Products shampoo and conditioner, a wide variety of treats, toys, chews, and p**p bags galore!
💝 Other baskets and Silken art items available
🙏 Thank you to those who donated to make these baskets possible

🐾 Show a Silken! 🐶 Meet a Silken! ⭐️ Support a Silken Club and specialty event!

❤️ Nettle, Thistle, and all their Silken Windhound friends can’t wait to meet you 💜

10/22/2026

Special thank you to Kaela Turner for bringing the Triple Crown Winners to my living room ❤️🧡💛

She was fabulous to work with and the pencil work is amazing!!! The individual pieces were shipped off to their owners earlier this week 🐾

She is currently open for commissions: https://www.kaelaturnerart.co.uk

10/21/2026

Tizzy goed to school today for the very first time

Well, maybe not the first time. Thistle has been to the club many, many times but usually just to bum around or do a very small amount of training. She’s never actually taken a class before. Today we stopped by a friend’s 30 minute Beginner Novice class just to get things moving.

Sighthounds work just the same as all other dogs, minus all the sighthound quirks. It’s a very different feel from working a herding breed like the Tervuren. Sighthounds tends to be sensitive and they don’t like repetition much. They can more challenging to motivate but also easily distracted… It’s a balancing act! Silken Windhounds are known as “biddable” when it comes to sighthounds but it’s quite different when you’re used to a Yes, Ma’am attitude from a Terv.

Tizzy made it through about 20 minutes of class before letting me know she’d like to check out. A Terv at her age would usually be good to go for an hour (or two) worth of classes. The most important thing is to capture the bite sized good stuff and to quit before she wants to quit. I excused us for the last ten minutes of class so she could exit the ring to relax a bit.

She did an A+ job of working around the other dogs (friends???), practicing her positions, and practicing stays. I am going to make a better effort to get her timing in for heelwork because I think she has a prancy heel hidden away. I also want to create a good mat or place behavior to help her relax between reps so a 30-45 minute class doesn’t require her to be “on” the entire time.

She and I are also taking a class based entirely Impulse Control for the next few Wednesdays which I think will be our secret weapon. She already knows a little It’s Yer Choice which is the foundation to my heel skills.

It was so fun and refreshing to work a baby dog who isn’t a Tervuren. Some things are a little easier while other things will take more time to cultivate. 💜

10/18/2026

You can’t socialize for everything…

You heard it here first! You cannot anticipate every single little thing that might rock your dog’s world when they are a puppy. For all the socializing in the world… Thistle wasn’t so sure this very narrow concrete bridge over troubled water was safe to cross. Using a combination of minimal leash work and verbal encouragement, she figured it out and was able to do it again later without being so worried. This is a problem she’s never been presented with before and I’m happy she had the skills to figure it out.

Skills required:
-trust in me
-leash work
-basic desensitization to flooring materials and balance beams

Socialization is about positively exposing your puppy to as much wacky stuff as you can so when they are later presented with a problem they might be brave enough to solve it!

Nice work, Tizzy!!! As a reward she got to do some off leash run n’ round time in the baseball diamond.

10/17/2026

Enjoying the weather this fine fall day 🍂

They were a little mad I didn’t let them swim in the mill pond and chase the woodland critters 😅 Grateful to feel good on my knee for about 4 miles of walking with the girls after we helped out at the Rally Match all morning. We got to see a lot of neighbors riding their bikes and walking along the trail. Everyone was a little surprised to see me walk 4 dogs so easily… really it’s like walking 3 dogs because Nettle bobs along, leash or no. The only thing to disturb the peace was Tizzy barking a few times… but honestly I’d bark at that suspicious trash can in the woods, too. Pidgeon and Suna were happy to go on a walkie, even after laying down 4 Rally runs each.

I guess the lucky number of the day is 4 🤪

UKC CH Wyndolyn Nazirra, “Nettle” at almost 5yrs old
Melioris Ilex, “Thistle” at just over a 1yr
Phantom Menace de Haute Volee CGCA TKN NA CA CDX RA BH-VT FR1, “Pidgeon” at 9yrs old
Crazy Villi Virta CSAU RA, “Sunarin” at almost 5yrs old

10/12/2026

Happy birthday to my Triple Crown Winners!!!! ❤️🧡💛🏇

❤️ Black Briar’s Citation TKN
🧡 UKC CH Black Briar’s Affirmed STR CGC TKI
💛 Black Briar’s Justify TKI

🏇 Special thank you to their owners for being the best puppy people ever!!! Beyond the training and titles, I’m so grateful for these wonderful folks who have nurtured these babies into the full grown adult dogs they are today. I’m looking forward to many more years of updates, photos, and videos 🐶

10/11/2026

So proud to announce Black Briar’s Affirmed is a UKC Champion!!!

Congratulations to Felix and his owners 🧡 I can’t believe these little babies will be 1yr old tomorrow 🥹 Sappy birthday post incoming 🐶

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https://www.blackbriarkennels.com/

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