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                                      Dinah, Ghardimaou, Tunisia, 1998 © Stichelmeier


                                                      DINAH


         This issue of Sloughi Review concludes                 Had she not been 8 years old at the time,
         with the North African Sloughia who lived              I would have asked if she could come
         to be at least 15 years old in Tunisia.                with me.
         Several of the Sloughis in this issue
         descend from her. Her name was Dinah and               Her lineage is still active today in Africa
         she was bred exclusively from Tunisian and             within Raouf Ochi's breeding in Bou
         Algerian lines by Mr. & Mrs. Bergman, a                Salem, Tunisia, through the descendants

         German couple living in Ghardimaou,                    of her son Skhab 1 (by brindle male Soufi).
         Northern Tunisia.
                                                                Her lineage is also active in Finland,
         I met Dinah in Ghardimaou in 1999, she was             Germany, and the USA, through the
         really lovely, laid back and pleasant,                 descendants of her grandson Tarfa, a son

         perfectly integrated in her pack. At the               of Skhab 1's brother Yeha.
         time she was nurturing an orphaned
         Sloughi puppy named Doyan as if it was her             By Dr. M.-D. Crapon de Caprona, USA.
         own.
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