SLOUGHI

The origin of this Arab Greyhound it is necessary to look for it, without a doubt, in the Old Egypt, in which we found bas-relief of these animal dated in the 1,500 a.C. The expansion of this race by all the Maghreb is work of the Bedouin nomads of these earth, adopted that it as guard and hunting dog. It is very normal to see the silhouette trimmed of sloughi at the top of a Bedouin store. Like hunting era very appreciated by its speed, resistance and balance, since the hunting technique was based on taking the dog in grupa of the horse, del that jumped when it was near the prey and it persecuted then it.

The Sloughi, like all the greyhounds and galgos, has an agile but powerful silhouette. The head is not excessively great, the nose is extended and the neck is long. The ears, not very great, are hanging. A differentiating characteristic of this race is a black rim around the eyes in the form of glasses. The coat, of leonado color cream or uniforms, is very short. The tail, in the form of saber is considerably long.