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        When we arrived in the north of Sweden, at              She was also very distrustful of strangers
        first, she only trusted my son who had been             in her youth, but she is also a very curious
        sitting in the back of the car with her during          and brave dog which helped her on her
        the nearly 2000 km drive home from the                  way to become the self-confident
        Frankfurt airport. A week or so later, she              Sloughia she is today who loves to be

        was comfortable at home and had begun to                petted for long periods of time, even by
        trust me as well.                                       strangers. Sometimes she even demands
                                                                that people pet her.
        The deep pine forests of the North were
        very strange to her and it took a few weeks             Nawara was an amazing mother. Although
        until she left the path and ran with our other          I have witnessed many bitches of many

        Sloughis. She has never been afraid of                  different breeds giving birth, watching her
        anything that I can remember but was quite              whelping was extraordinary. And her
        skittish around people her first year with us.          puppies delivered: I had never seen any
        She is also very careful with her body, and             puppy being immediately that strong and
        she doesn’t like to play roughly with the               vital!
        other Sloughis and would never push a door
        or gate with her head or body.
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