We founded our Silken Windhound kennel with Kristull Honey Ryder, our first Silken that we brought home in 2011. We had never met a Silken Windhound before picking up Honey from the airport as a puppy, but we were hooked instantly. Honey was bred by Kristull Kennels and whelped by Satsuma Silken Windhounds. Honey became our first ISWS Dual Champion and continues to be active in both conformation and performance events to this day. At 14 years old, Honey participated in LGRA Nationals and then the next weekend won Best in Specialty Show at the East Coast Silken Windhound specialty in 2025.
We’ve continued high level accomplishments all the way through to our youngest dog in our program, CSB Agent 007. Seven is a Best in Specialty Show winner, NOTRA Nationals Best of Breed winner, and an ASFA Sighthound Spree Best in Field winner.
We’ve taken Best Bred by Exhibitor in Specialty numerous times with many of our dogs over the years. Two of our dogs have earned places on an ASFA Perpetual Trophy for their Best in Field wins at large trials. We’ve also produced a number of UKC Total Dog qualifiers with diverse sports ranging across just about every sport UKC offers. We have produced several dogs that have won ASFA Best in Field a half dozen times each and we’re always proud of one Silken in a pet home that has won BIF every single time they’ve chosen to attend an ASFA trial. We also produced a Silkenfest, Silken Windhound National Specialty, Pentathlon winner.
Many dogs from our breeding program have become successful Service Dogs. Multiple others are Emotional Support Dogs. We pride ourselves on raising puppies that have the socialization and exposure needed to be temperamentally sound in exceptional circumstances.
We produced the first silken ever to title in Weight Pull. That dog has gone on to earn multiple advanced titles and is still competing at a high level at 10 years of age. We have other dogs competing in weight pull in other homes that have also been the first Silken Windhounds to title in the venues they’re competing in. We are the first kennel to have multigenerational pedigrees with weight pull titles on both sides of the pedigree. While this is an unconventional sport for a Sighthound, we felt it worthwhile to pursue proving the versatility of the breed and have found the community involved in that sport to be exceptionally kind and supportive.
Our dogs are raised with evidence based methods that are continuing to improve and evolve as our experiences dictate. When we first started, we were grateful to have Puppy Culture as a resource, then we expanded on to utilizing resources from Avidog when that came out.
We have temperament tested every litter utilizing APET, which is the Avidog method of temperament testing. We also embark test every dog that passes through this house, including paying to embark test stud dogs we’ve used as necessary, so that we can contribute to providing data that we hope can be useful to future studies that may occur. We advocate for responsible breeding practices, including continued health testing of Silken Windhounds into their senior years.
We are BIMPOC, Neurodivergent, and 2SLGBTQIA friendly.
If you’re interested in getting a puppy from us, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. Our most up to date information is generally available on our Facebook page and we prefer you reach out to us through there. A lot of dog breeders, ourselves included, are inundated with inquiries. Silken Windhounds in particular are a breed that has really taken off in popularity due to the breed developing alongside the growth of social media. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us more than once if we don’t respond in a timely fashion.