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North African Sloughis among the Tahawi, in Hutchinson’s Dog
Encyclopedia, 1935, text by Lady Florence Amherst
In contrast, Henri Duveyrier wrote in 1864 But as to why Florence Amherst preferred
that the Touareg had three breeds of dogs, the feathered dogs (Salukis) to the
the sighthound (Oska), a long-haired Arabian smooth (Sloughis), Yasser Ghanim
dog and the Aidi [17]. But even he only answered as follows:
describes the Sloughi (Oska) as a
sighthound, but not the "very rare Arabian" "I can probably guess. The same reasons
dog. she thought the Tahawies are from Anazah.
Everybody in the West wanted the high
The photo documents of the Tahawi quality Anazah and Shammar horses. So
Bedouins are interesting. They show both probably they thought the same about the
"Slughis" of the Shami type, as well as dogs. I am not expert in Saluki but it could
obviously - North African Sloughis! be that the dogs of the Arab tribes of Syria
were considered more authentic and
Marouane Meddeb from Tunisia even takes Oriental, I am not sure."
the opinion that the Arabs never had their
own dogs; the Salukis are the dogs of the
Persians! The Sloughi is the Berber dog.
