Porphyry's Pedigree

Breeder: Bonnie Dalzell and James Saklad MD

DOB: January 14, 2000

Porphyry is the Princess Royal here at Celeritas. She knows she is beautiful and figures you should notice this. She also figures that her rightful place is on the couch. After all, who could expect her to recline in the dirt and grass?

Porphyry is a beautiful blue dilute brindle. The blue dilute gene causes the dark part of her brindle stripes to be softened into slate gray and gives her coat sparkling highlights that just glisten in the sunlight. Porphyry is very sound and has a breath-taking side gait. I have never owned a borzoi that has side movement like hers. She truly has an effortless, reaching trot.

Unfortunately, Porphyry is not particularly interested in chasing the lure, though she will occasionally deign to run. When she does run, she is quite fast. I suppose Porph figures that anyone as beautiful as she is should not have to work for her dinner. She is so right. I do love to pamper her.

Yes, well, I know the Borzoi standard states something about these dogs being aristocratic in nature. Actually, Porphyry does this to signal to my subconscious that I need to scratch her stomach and chest and give her a general Borzoi massage. In fact, when I am working in the yard, Porph manages to strategically position herself in places I will be walking past. I can't resist it, when she is looking this cute, I have to give her a scratch. Are these dogs manipulative? What do you think?.

Here is a better example of what Porph's color looks like than the other photos on this page. You can see how the black brindle striping has been dimmed or diluted to a softer, slate blue grey color typical of blue dilutes. You can see Flyte's head at the right border of the photo for comparison. She is not a dilute. Photo taken on December 20, 2006

A funny picture I took on a whim when Porph was gazing up at me trying to convince me that she would die if I did not let her go into the house immediately. After all, the couches are all in there. This photo also provides a good example of what the blue dilute gene does to eye color. You can also get a close look at her nose and eye rim color as well. This photo was taken on December 2, 2007.

Porph posing nicely for me. This may be Texas, but what is behind her is not an oil well. As you can tell, Porphyry has a very thick plush coat.