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There were 3 editors of the 1938 standard: Mlle F. Turcat, who was called Mme Davin

after her marriage, M. Durel and M. Senac-Lagrange. Until the 1938 standard, the Sloughi
ear was described as an ear folded back larger than that of an English Greyhound, but
slightly smaller than that of a Galgo español. The 2nd Standard notes that there are also
dogs with lop ears. The early authors of descriptions of Sloughi, de Schaek, Mégnin and
Siber have rejected Kobelt's description of Sloughis as having lop ears. Some of Kobelt's
descriptions are also criticised by Autengruber-Thüry in other contexts.

In this 3rd standard the proportions are reversed, the mobile, set-back ear is displaced by
the lop ear to 2nd place. As Eckhard Schritt wrote in the “Windhundfreund” in February
1978: "The relationship of the Sloughi to the Oriental sighthound breeds is also recognised

and emphasised by favouring the flat hanging ear and relegating the folded ear to 2nd place
as less desirable."

"Ideaal Slouqui" based on a description by August Le Gras, the movable ears
are folded back. Drawing by August Le Gras.

The previous authors who describe the Sloughi with a folded back ear also include Le
Gras with his "Ideaal Slouqui". This rejection of the folded back ear must now be seen as a

consequence of these imports from the Levant!