By: mediareport
The text regarding Islam cited in that article, the "Kitab Hayat al-Hayawan" is not regarded as a reliable source of hadith, or sayings of Prophet Mohammed. Ok, I'll take you at your word, but the...
View ArticleBy: winna
All the greyhound people got here before I did, saving me the trouble of testifying to my favorite breed. I have a greyhound. She spends twenty hours a day asleep. This is not because I drug her, or...
View ArticleBy: Burhanistan
Interesting article here exploring why in all three major monotheistic religions "warm ties between humans and canines have been seen as a threat to the authority of the clergy." posted by mediareport...
View ArticleBy: JAHxman
As a rescue greyhound owner, I gotta put in my 2 cents on comments like this: if they're typical sighthounds, they're probably dumb as bricks. Most of the sighthounds I've met were quite intelligent;...
View ArticleBy: mediareport
There is one school in Islam, the Maliki, that is much more favorable to dogs. Interesting article here exploring why in all three major monotheistic religions "warm ties between humans and canines...
View ArticleBy: illovich
Not to be a killjoy on the Egyptian fantasy, but the notion that the Pharaoh Hound/ is either f Egyptian origin or an old dog breed has been dismissed conclusively (note this link is from one of the...
View ArticleBy: sidereal
Beautiful animals, nice post. From the subject line, I thought it would be a compendium of odd dogs, including my favorite Dr. Seuss fever dream, the Chinese Crested [img].
View ArticleBy: tkchrist
I've always wanted a ibizan, which looks remarkably like a pharaoh hound, but I'm told are less temperamental. Don't do it. Not unless you got 9ft high fences and the ability to tune out their piercing...
View ArticleBy: Burhanistan
they're incidentally the only dogs not considered unclean in Islam, for this reason That's not really correct. In Islam, dogs are not considered unclean in and of themselves. It gets a bit complicated...
View ArticleBy: biscotti
The main reason people think sighthounds are dumb is simply that they're not bred to work closely with people (unlike most of the breeds people tend to think of as "smart", like most of the herding and...
View ArticleBy: DangerIsMyMiddleName
The "sighthounds==lots of exercise" thing is immensely harmful. It's just not true for the most common sighthound, the greyhound. All of the greys I've ever had - and this goes for every other...
View ArticleBy: Burhanistan
People really should be required to have a permit to possess these kinds of dogs, for sake of the dogs (not trying to troll). That said, those dogs do have heads that look like something out of a...
View ArticleBy: lonefrontranger
I had never seen pharoahs in my life before a couple weeks ago when I met a couple out on an XC ski run who had a pair. they are really, really cool looking dogs, and these guys seemed very well...
View ArticleBy: gaspode
I played with a pharoah hound when I was at the WKC show this year. Nice dogs. I used to walk deerhounds, and I totally agree with the motivation aspect of training. They are bastards if they can't be...
View ArticleBy: cyclopticgaze
Those dogs are born runners. If they don't get lots of excercise on a daily basis, their temperament will go to hell. They need to run and run everyday or they'll bounce off the walls and destroy...
View ArticleBy: quin
I've always wanted a ibizan, which looks remarkably like a pharaoh hound, but I'm told are less temperamental. Apparently, both can blush when excited. Which I find funny.
View ArticleBy: 2sheets
I lived with one for awhile (roommate's) and it was one of the most skittish, spastic, bark for no reason dogs I've ever encountered, and that's after growing up with a miniature greyhound. I'm sure a...
View ArticleBy: brundlefly
I was thinking the same thing, FoB. About the Egyptian thing, that is. I know nothing of sighthounds.
View ArticleBy: Faint of Butt
Those are gorgeous beasts, and it's easy to see why they got the name "pharaoh hound." Their entire bearing just screams Ancient Egypt. Sad to say, though, if they're typical sighthounds, they're...
View ArticleTrippy Dogs
Looking Rather Unworldly, the pharaoh hound, believed by some to have originated in Egypt, is the National Hound of Malta and is claimed by the Maltese. This love of hunting is used to advantage in...
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