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Chetoui and Nefta, Meknassy, 1999 © de Caprona
Gisela Bergmann also writes in her letter to
Dominique de Caprona:
“…the Stichelmeirs have pure Tunisian
Sloughis from Meknassy, almost identical in
origin to ours. We got a STAK's son from
them from their Tunisian Sloughia [Assia],
SOUFI, gray-sand brindle, very similar to
the great-grandmother SARAH. A couple of
red full siblings from SOUFI have returned
to Meknassy to help the Sloughi population,
which has since become almost extinct due
to the parvovirus imported from Europe, and
which we have tried to support in recent
years with around twenty offspring of our
animals exported to the south, with varying
degrees of success."
Dinah, 1980s © Stichelmeir
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Dominique de Caprona reports:
“… Soufi (Soufyan) had a brother Chetoui. He
came from the Bergmanns to Meknassy to
the son of Hussein Ghabri. He also has a
sister there, Nefta."
But there were not only imports of Sloughis
to Europe, Sloughis bred by the Bergmanns
were also used for hunting and breeding in
Tunisia. This is all the more important
because the Sloughis used there were also
used for their intended purpose, the hunt,
that started in ancient times with the
ancestors of today's Sloughis, and possibly
even with the ancient Egyptians. The
documented game hunted was hare,
gazelle, fox and jackal.
Soufi, 1994 © Biebach