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Left: Scheherazade van den Roumi, breeder von de Rooij, born 20 June 1912,
the movable lop ear ear and right: Caid, breeder Smit, born on 14 September
1909, the movable ear, folded backwards.

It seems that some breeders and owners confused and mixed up these different
landraces. Others, however, were able to distinguish them very precisely, as the
comments of experts such as O. Malescot and P. Mégnin showed at the time. There were
probably also tensions between the French and the English regarding the designation of
these landraces, which they had labelled "Salukis" since Crufts in 1923 (foundation of the
"Saluki or Gazelle Hound Club"). The English included the North African Sloughi in the
large group of Middle Eastern Salukis, which was contrary to the opinion of the Hon.

Florence Amherst.

At the Monte Carlo Show on 25 and 26 March 1934, the judge Paul Mégnin accused the
breeder of the two dogs Oujda and Haidar Ould Chems, Mlle Turcat, of presenting dogs

that "clearly show a cross with Persian sighthounds on the head and, on the ears. I think I
have seen these two specimens in Marseille, at least one of them, and I have already made
the same remark."

At this point we have a clear indication from judge Paul Mégnin that there were
already crosses at that time. The reference to Marseille emphasises the suspicion.

Whether the ear, which is carried flat on the head, already existed in the Sloughi
landrace in North Africa before European breeding in France and the Netherlands in
the 19th century, cannot be said with certainty. In any case, it is much rarer than the
ear folded back in Sloughis.