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Otto Ries is occasionally mentioned as
the breeder of Bedui, and Liz Gross von
Hübbenet and Els Siebel have such notes
or records. At the DWZRV, however, Otto
Ries is not known as a breeder.
The fact that both parents, Sloughi Ben
from Tozeur and Abla from Sidi Thabet,
both come from Tunisia (source: de
Caprona, therefore Algeria is not the
origin of Sloughi Ben), the mother Abla
and one sister of Bedui (Sarah) belonged
Bedui © Gisela Schwartz
to the Linke couple and stayed with the
BEDUI (DWZB SL 106 / SL 0-106), actually Bergmanns, suggests breeding in Tunisia.
Bedoui
Dominique de Caprona and Mrs.
Bedui was born on April 24th, 1974 (1973: Stichelmeir also report that the Linkes
Bergmann) out of Abla (* 1971 in Sidi also bred Sloughis (two litters, Srap and
Thabet, Northeast Tunisia, brindle, owned Azm). So Otto Ries remains the exporter
by Linke) by Sloughi Ben (* 1971 in Tozeur, from Tunisia to Germany.
sand). Otto Ries exported Bedui from
Tunisia to Germany with his sister Faisa Roland Stichelmeir writes:
and sold Bedui to Georg Schweitzer, Faisa
(SL 107) was entered in the DWZRV's stud “… Mr. Ries was just a German who
book by Günter Koser. Another sister of worked in Tunis and had Sloughis. There
his, Sarah, was with Mrs. Linke in Tunisia; is nothing more to say. "
Mrs. Linke and her husband Jürgen had had
a close relationship with the Bergmanns at Georg Schweitzer was with Eckhard and
least since the 1970s. Jürgen Linke lived on Ingeborg Schritt in Rabat in Morocco,
the Baraket estate for a few years in the where he took part in the 1975 World
1990s, he was also a development worker. It Exhibition.
is possible that the Linkes were the
breeders of Bedui, Sarah and their siblings. Bedui became World Youth Champion
there. He was very successful in shows (I.
In “La Vie Canine”, August 1980 edition, it is Schritt). He was feared by the breeding
written, “Bedui with Riyadh (brothers)”. judges because he was considered
Breeder M. Reis (not Ries), owner Riad: M. "difficult", which is not unusual for an
Lèvêque, owner Bedui: M. Schweitzer. original nomad Sloughi (E. Zimmermann).
(from a dogs' magazine)
