Saluki's and their crosses.

[Black neck 16,274]

5 hours ago, shaaark said:

Lol just thinking out loud really, blacky lol. 

Careful o that these days 

[Greb147 6,809]

9 minutes ago, Black neck said:

Careful o that these days 

Especially if you suffer from tourette's. 

[Black neck 16,274]

1 hour ago, Greb147 said:

Especially if you suffer from tourette's. 

Get away ir then shaggy

[shaaark 10,935]

2 hours ago, Moocher71 said:

Not my type  just wondered how they got wooly coat .

Norfolk lurcher, beddy, deerhound, collie etc, and whatever else, plus probably a recessive gene throwing back to some thicker coated 'saluki type' dogs from their original homelands? 

Anyway, not my type either. 

[shaaark 10,935]

5 minutes ago, shaaark said:

plus probably a recessive gene throwing back to some thicker coated 'saluki type' dogs from their original homelands? 

This was just a stab in the dark, as I have hardly any idea as to recessive genes! lol

[mushroom 13,304]

9 hours ago, FUJI said:

Almost 13 year's since I joined this forum,it's great to see that topics such as this are still just as prevalent today as they were then ..the old desert dawg's,like marmite some love em,most hate em that's just how it is ..good to see people's views regarding them especially those that have ran them..I'm not going to lie I hated them,I seen dozens run back in the mid to late 80's & 90's there wasn't a single one of them that was even bad,they were ALL utter sh##e!! Why were the ones I seen so poor? Has the genepool dramatically improved? I don't honestly know? Roll forward a quarter of a century & here's me with em,I've moved the goalposts in regard what,where & how I hunt & I'd never own a dog without Saluki blood in it now..I'm a convert,it's dog's for jobs & they excel at certain things & being honest are rubbish at other tasks,im not kennel blind or one to promote or dismiss how good a type is without testing it fully & imo Saluki blood is paramount if your main type of work is daytime other than for possibly a bit of ferreting..we all seek that 'perfect' running dog,I first got to see my first back in 1977 so 6 decades ago now & I'm yet to see that dog that excels at everything.. keep the topic going folk's,it's enjoyable

Anything saturated (not, just a smidge) with saluki blood is a natural born cnut

[sandymere 8,263]

15 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Norfolk lurcher, beddy, deerhound, collie etc, and whatever else, plus probably a recessive gene throwing back to some thicker coated 'saluki type' dogs from their original homelands? 

Anyway, not my type either. 

I recon some ejit threw an Afghan in the mix early on.

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[shaaark 10,935]

9 minutes ago, sandymere said:

I recon some ejit threw an Afghan in the mix early on.

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Yeah, that's what I was sort of alluding to lol.  Remember pics like that, and reading about the history of different sighthounds, years ago.  Probably stuck in the dark recesses of my mind. 

[The drover 519]

42 minutes ago, sandymere said:

I recon some ejit threw an Afghan in the mix early on.

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Surely in a bygone era.  The Afghan hound was a dog with a purpose.  Otherwise they wouldn't have been formed . Who's to say there sint a strain still being worked out there and we are doing the animal's a disservice.  Look at the early saluki hybrids here in the early 80s to now .  Things change , so much so that the arabs came back to the uk to help their lines out . Their lack of wisdom is our gain . Especially wiping out most prey that they ran . Jmho

[sandymere 8,263]

20 minutes ago, The drover said:

Surely in a bygone era.  The Afghan hound was a dog with a purpose.  

I expect it still is is in the mountains of its homelands as is the closely related Tazi.

[low plains drifter 10,775]

Do they even call them Afghan hounds in their coo, I thought that was a name put on them by the KC

[mushroom 13,304]

10 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

Do they even call them Afghan hounds in their coo, I thought that was a name put on them by the KC

In Afghanistan they're just hounds

[Greb147 6,809]

Never really read that deep in to them, which regions do the better strains of saluki come from? 

Do all the rich Arabs own the best types? 

[riohog 5,793]

5 minutes ago, Greb147 said:

Never really read that deep in to them, which regions do the better strains of saluki come from? 

Do all the rich Arabs own the best types? 

no  i was offered one by rashid el maktoum   , i declined his offer i didnt like the way it looked and moved , to be fair i thought it was a bag of shite ,,

[Greb147 6,809]

Just now, riohog said:

no  i was offered one by rashid el maktoum   , i declined his offer i didnt like the way it looked and moved , to be fair i thought it was a bag of shite ,,

Really? 

So which regions hold the best dogs that see the most work, is there better types out there than the imports that were brought over here?