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Dukal 2002 © Schlenkrich

Text © M.-Dominique Crapon de Caprona, 2024

Editor’s note: There was no DNA test available then, and at the time of Dukal’s presence

in Switzerland, a rumor alleging he was a crossbreed from Sloughi with Saluki circulated
among Sloughi fanciers in Germany.
Dukal alledgedly came to Switzerland via the USA, but I can debunk one story: Dukal was

not a puppy of Isabella de la Horde d’Or, owned by J. Burchard and S. Müllemann, from a
French breeding that did cross Sloughis with Salukis. Isabella lived in California, in
Alpaugh, a little town in western California where many Saluki owners lived.

In fact, she lived across the street from Gisela Cook-Schmidt, a founder of the Sloughi

Fanciers Association of America who assured me that she never saw Isabella with
puppies.
This is a photo of Isabella; she does not look anything like Dukal’s mother.

Isabella de la Horde d’Or
Photo provided by J. Burchard