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Sixthly. The judgement of a standard bred breed according to the phenotype
It has become clear that a pure judgement and classification of a breed according to standard,
for example in the case of the Middle Eastern Saluki and the North African Sloughi, on the
basis of the coat, i.e. the short hair, is not sufficient. It should be noted, for example, that
there are also different types with regard to short hair. If different types can not be easily
recognised, they can be distinguished genetically.

The problem of the assignment as a Saluki shows that the origins of pure short-haired Salukis
come from Bedouin tribes or individual breeder families in these tribes. In addition to their
neighbouring Bedouin tribes with feathered Salukis, these tribes have developed and retained
these different types over long periods of time.

However, the Salukis of the Arabian Peninsula show both short-haired and feathered types.
They can also appear mixed in one litter, which requires a clear differentiation according to
the origin of the respective dogs. The feathered types, however, differ from the type of
feathering in other Saluki types from other areas of origin.

And not, as Prof. Dr. Quaritsch puts it, that Sloughis and Salukis can fall in one litter (letter to
B. Berghausen, DWZRV on the subject of Dasman-Jet dated 7th February 1986) - we must
regard this remark as a statement that was not meant seriously. Of course it was clear to Prof
Dr. Quaritsch that an assignment of Sloughis to two different breeds within one litter is
unlikely.

The dogs with both short-haired and feathered puppies must be regarded as mixed-coated
dogs. As Dr. John Burchard credibly tells us, these different coats occur in Salukis on the
Arabian Peninsula. Even within the same litter.

Since a Sloughi is homozygous short-haired, no feathered individuals can occur in its
pedigree. These heterozygous individuals do occur in Salukis, as Dr. John Burchard explains.
According to Western ideas, a distinction based purely on phenotype would be doomed to
failure at this point. Since they obviously differ according to the cultural differences of a

tribal affiliation, one can raise the question of different ecological races, which does not seem
to be permissible according to the previous taxonomy or at least is not applied.

If we take the distinction of origin taxonomically as a separate ecological race as a basis, we
can assume a more secure judgement of the affiliation of the different ecological races.

The genetic differences between Sloughi and Saluki discovered years after the
crossbreeding support the FCI classification. Do the right thing! Thank you.