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AFGHAN HOUND HISTORY

AFGHAN HOUND HISTORY Afghan Hound history the ancient breed of Afghanistan there's a Charming legend that says when it came time for Noah to select the dog that would board his ark and save the species from the great flood he chose the Afghan Hound as with most folklore this story is best kept in soft focus sight hounds which is what the Afghan Hound most decidedly is are plentiful in Central Asia and the Middle East the wide open spaces and oppressively hot climate are precisely what created the need for these long-legged aerodynamically built canine Hunters but Millennia ago breeds as we understand them didn't exist instead there were General categories of dogs that were much less defined than the closely curated breeds we know today so the image of a dog resembling a modern Afghan Hound with its tousel top knot distinctive saddle and patterning prominent hipbones and ring curled tail springing in its un mistaka aristocratic way up the gang plank of Noah's Arc isn't exactly likely and besides with having to tend each film of known creatures in his floating managerie Noah certainly didn't have much time for all that grooming ancient history of the Afghan Hound historical accuracy aside what the tale of the Afghan Hound aboard Noah's Ark does communicate to us in no uncertain terms is just how ancient this traditional Hunter of gazelle and Snow Leopard is like many of the Eastern sight hounds the Afghan Hound was first brought to Great Britain by military men as a sort of living souvenir from the Exotic lands in which they were posted the very first of these Imports was zardin who was purchased in India by Captain John barf and was believed to have been born in Iran when zardin was exhibited at the famous CRS dog show in 1909 he created such a stir that Queen Alexandra requested he visit Buckingham Palace even a glance at at the surviving photos of zardin shows why he had many of the characteristics that are prized in the breed even today from his Snowshoe feet to the visible saddle on his back zardan was such an enviable specimen that he became the model for the first ever Afghan Hound breed standard which was written in 1912 unfortunately World War I soon preempted any interest in dog breeding and none of zardan bloodline survives in modern Afghan Hound pedigrees today but after the bullets stopped flying British imperialism kept a steady stream of soldiers and civilians heading to Afghanistan and neighboring lands where they inevitably grew intrigued by these exotically primitive dogs and as the dogs began to arrive on British Shores in greater numbers in the first quarter of the 20th century Fascination turned to intense debate over which Afghan hounds were the authentic ones authentic Afghanistan hounds Afghanistan has a varied topography from from expanses of plateau and desert to the craggy inhospitable mountains that provided such fortress-like protection to The Fugitive Osama Bin Laden speaking of that terrorist some Afghan Hound owners experienced a backlash during the difficult period following September 11th because of the breed's name and Origins so much so that the Afghan Hound Club of America briefly considered a name change in the face of this widely Divergent topography Afghan hounds and various parts of the country developed differently as all breeds do evolving to suit the conditions in which they lived the first Bonafide Afghan Hound kennel in the United Kingdom had so-called stepped or desert type dogs which had sparer silkier coats and racier outlines in 1920 major and Mrs G Bell Murray and Miss Jean C Manson returned to Scotland with a group of dogs that came to be referred to as the B Murray strain by contrast Mountain Afghan hounds had heavier coats more bone and greater angulation this type of Afghan was brought to England in 1925 by Mary amps whose husband was stationed in kabell assembled from the mountainous areas around that key Afghan City the amps dogs became known as The gazy Strain the most famous gazy dog was cirar who evoked the previous headline maker zardin in appearance bred in the Royal kennels of of the king of Afghanistan cirar wasn't a large dog but he soon evolved an oversized presence in the country winning at CRS and helping popularize the breed not surprisingly the B Murray and gazy dogs battled it out at dog shows while outside the ring their respective breeders arm wrestled over whose strain of dogs should predominate in the end both were crossbreed and the Afghan Hound that we have today represents a middle ground between these two polarities aloof and amp dignified while there was impassioned debate in those early years over what an Afghan Hound should be on the outside there was Universal agreement about what the breed should be like on the inside the often quoted phrase in the AKC standard eyes gazing into the distance as if in solution