PHARAOH HOUND
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COUNTRY: Malta
HEIGHT: 21-25 inches
COAT: Short and shiny
COLOR: Self-colored tan
OTHER NAMES: Kelb-tal Fenek
REGISTRY: FCI, AKC, TKC, CKC
GROUP: Southern
The Pharaoh Hound is a race of dog of the family of the podencos native of Malta. It is the Maltese national race, and it is known in Maltese like Kelb-such Fenek (rabbit-hunting dog).
Esteem that this is the dog that the Egyptian Pharaohs as much admired. Of being thus, this race is not less than eight thousand years old. In Egypt a.C is documented to them from the fourth millenium., but to the northeast of Africa it documents two millenia before to him, which does the older lineage to him of dogs known. Nevertheless, one knows that modern Hound Pharaoh comes from the island of Malta, in the Mediterranean, where possibly he was taken by the Phoenicians.
Esteem that this is the dog that the Egyptian Pharaohs as much admired. Of being thus, this race is not less than eight thousand years old. In Egypt a.C is documented to them from the fourth millenium., but to the northeast of Africa it documents two millenia before to him, which does the older lineage to him of dogs known. Nevertheless, one knows that modern Hound Pharaoh comes from the island of Malta, in the Mediterranean, where possibly he was taken by the Phoenicians.
