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Rym with mother and sister, Douz, Tunisia, April 1999 © de Caprona
Rym Cassandra, GRC, FCh Because we had a car and the Bergmanns
had had theirs seized, Gisela Bergmann,
Born March 5, 1999, by Sabek out of Jürgen Linke, my sister, and I took the
Raquel in Douz, a town at the edge of the opportunity of visiting friends they had
Sahara Desert in Tunisia. Bred by Salem not seen in years. One of them was Salem
Gharzallah, Tunisia, Rym was owned by Gharzallah in Douz.
Dr. Dominique Crapon de Caprona, USA.
I will always remember getting out of the
In 1998, following a discussion with my car and what was the first thing I saw? A
German friends Herbert and Brigitte Sloughia lying in the sand with her 2
Biebach, I toyed with the idea of going to puppies. I stopped dead and took photo
Tunisia to see Sloughis. I had been in 1968 after photo, oblivious to anything else.
in Morocco but had never been able to see Nothing special for Tunisians but so very
any. The Biebachs knew the Bergmanns special to me!!
and their Sloughis through their shared
interests in horses and we had often Following visits to various local Sloughi
talked about them. And so, I finally owners, we came back to Salem's place.
organized a trip to go visit them. At the As we sat there talking, I heard Rym
end of March 1999, I flew from Omaha in scream. I went out to look and saw one of
the US to Geneva Switzerland, met there Salem Gharzallah's young sons forcing
with my sister Anne d'Ersu. We then flew her into a big dog's mouth.
together to Tunis, rented a car, and drove
to Ghardimaou and the Baraket farm,
which we found after inquiring locally.
