Saluki

The saluki is the ONLY AKC breed with a mechanism for bringing in new "blood" and even that is cumbersome, partially because of Arabist romanticism and the myth of the "pure" hurr Bedu, saluki, Arab horse, and saker. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I awake to the sound of wild saluki dogs barking at the dawn. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

Breed people buy in to all sorts of mysticism about it show saluki people with their pure Arab breed myths are among the worst-- see below and make up absurd creation myths. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Steve- Is the brindle dog a saluki, a tazi or a cross? ❋ Unknown (2007)

I have other Chinese saluki- tazi images, some even older, but not this one. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I have once or twice had a saluki deliver a rabbit to hand that wasn't quite dead. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Doesn't matter if it's a saluki chasing jacks over the open plains, or a falcon taking multiple stoops and remounts, if that animal is well field hardened they can optimize their focus on the quarry rather than trivial aspects of the chase. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I just found that our friend Sir Terence Clark does Arabic calligraphy as a pastime, Since he is "dog saluki/ tazi friend", the subject of this piece is not surprising. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The west split off one small Arab population, mostly from Iraq, and called it saluki, and took an even smaller group from Afghanistan and made of it the absurd modern show Afghan. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A member of our tazi list writes of a friend near Tehran, in one of the traditional lands of the tazi- saluki: If she goes there or elsewhere to exercise her dogs she still has a problem to go by car, because her property is surrounded by buildings.... ❋ Unknown (2007)

John Burchard can verify that they will flush a hare on occasion, but I haven't got a saluki here to chase it when that happens. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The tazis have taken most of my income and energy for the last five years and are genetic gold, the only Asian saluki-type dogs in North America, the only ones of that stock whose ancestors have never stopped hunting, and a likely source of genes for working salukis as well as a distinct population of their own. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The most sensitive hare portraits I know are done by an old saluki man in southern California-- just shots of peaceful jacks. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Their representative in Arabia, the saluki, is hallowed by tradition; there is a line in the Koran that specifically allows the hunter the meat taken by his hounds and hawks. ❋ Unknown (2006)

My black and tan saluki bitch is very feral/different in her habits although she does cycle twice per year unfortunately, my parti-coloured is more doggy but still not entirely so. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The white dog in the truck is Gates, a saluki- greyhound, also owned by Floyd. ❋ Unknown (2006)

To the traditional Arab the saluki is exempt from "dog" prohibitions-- indeed, the saluki, the Arabian horse, the Saker falcon, and the Arab of the desert are all "hurr" or noble. ❋ Unknown (2006)