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LABA'AN II AL KHALIJ IS DECLARED A SLOUGHI IN SWITZERLAND

On 13 February 1981 Laba'an II Al Khalij
was examined by two sighthound breed
judges in Switzerland, Mrs G. Rey (bred
Whippets and Salukis) and Mrs Schneebeli
(today Müller, bred Whippets and Borzois),

the owner at this time was Hans-Peter
Oechslin, of the town of Elgg.

Dr. John Burchard's pedigree is enclosed
with the report. The male dog is then
entered in the SHSB breeding register as
"Sloughi" under SHSB / LOS Reg. 844.

With the FCI standard 188d of 1 January
1981, the patronage for the standard
changed from France to Morocco and
Laba'an II Al Khalij, Saluki becomes a Sloughi Morocco was specified as the country of
"because he is short-haired", unknown origin for the Sloughi, as Algeria, Tunisia
photographer
and Libya did not have a pedigree book.

The previous FCI standard 188c did not indicate a country of origin.

The reasoning of the central board of the SKG (Swiss Kennel Club) of 7 October 1988 in
Bern is interesting. In a letter from the Swiss Saluki Club in response to the application to
ban the offspring of Loofah Al Khalij for breeding and the exclusion of the kennel "Tepe
Gawra" by the Swiss Saluki Club, we find the following:

"The bitch Loofah was examined by recognised sighthound judges before her entry in the

SHSB appendix register and recommended for registration and breeding as a typical Saluki.

There is no such thing as a pure breed in the geneticist's sense in any dog breed, and for
reasons we need not go into here, it is not even desirable. ...

Especially in the case of sighthounds from the Maghreb and the Middle East*, the transitions
from one type to another are quite fluid, we refer to the "Salukis" of the Sinai Peninsula,
which, although no foreign blood is added, vary from the short-haired Sloughi to the
feathered Saluki, which, by the way, Dr. Burchard also confirms as a good connoisseur of the

sighthound scene."

*Author’s note: meaning the Arabian Peninsula