Afghan

Of this noble dog defined as ?the beautiful one between the beautiful ones of cinofilia?, one says that he was one of the animals that Noah also took in his coffer, settling down his old origin and, the origin region: some part of smaller Asia. Dog of great elegance, with walking imposing and elastic, equipped with a long and fine coat, at the present time is practically spread everywhere and is considered only like company dog.

Beyond the legend, the origin of this race is really very old. They prove some drawings found in the caverns of the region of Balkh, in the northwest of Afghanistan, and that go back to year 2200 Before Christ. These drawings represent lebreles very similar to Afghan the present one. It is said that it descends from great lebrel Egyptian and was commonly used in the hunting of the leopard and gacela. It has been always had in great consideration until the point to define itself as ?one of per them of Afghanistan?. Its export was prohibited and, those that transgressed this norm, severely were punished even, with the capital punishment. 

First which it managed to infringe this prohibition taking to Europe a pair of these dogs, she was a Scottish official of last name Mc Kenzie, in 1888. Since then, its diffusion was enormous and fast being able to find today, very numerous, in all the countries of Europe, America and Australia. Frequently it is winning absolute in the canine exhibitions, exciting the enthusiastic ones and the public in general, who more and more follows with greater admiration and increasing interest. In some European countries and the United States of America, races are organized, even for the Afghan galgos. To see them run with the hair to the wind, is truely a very interesting spectacle and those are not few that disillusion, then, of the great capacity, like sprinters, of these dogs, considered by many almost exclusively of company.

It is a dog of good size, of great elegance, harmonious lines and that move with lengthened pace and elastic. Its basic characteristics, is without a doubt the layer with straight and silky hair, very fine to the tact and that covers of abundant way all the body with exception of the snout and the tail, where he is much more short. On the chin, it forms a beard of moderate length where two characteristic flecos denominated ?officials held in low esteem? are come off.
This dog never must excessively seem heavy nor coarse.
The compact and solid trunk, presents/displays a straight superior line and one grupa angulada well.
The extremities are robust, with compact and wide feet.
Tail, whose more showy characteristic is the elegant ring that forms, is even distinguished of the rest of the body, to be little provided with hair and, when the dog moves, it takes it very high.
The most common colors are the leonado one, more or less intense, the black, the atigrado one, the black with spots fire and also the target.
The coat must stay always clean and cepillado to avoid the formation of ?cords? that are not admitted in the aids.

Raised to the cross. Males of 68.5 to 74 cm., females of 60.5 to 68 cm. Head. Black Trufa, except in the units with clear layer in which liver can appear of color.

Head. Long snout. Powerful jaws. Stop not very marked. Long skull but not too narrow, well proportionate and covered by abundant fleco of long hair. Prominent occipital Hueso.

Ears. Of low birth, covers with long and silky hairs, the dog takes pendants to them on the head.

Neck. Length and fort.

Previous extremities. Long and oblique shoulders, inclined backwards; with a powerful musculatura that, nevertheless, is not heavy. Extremities with good bones, in affluent correct seriousness, with elbows adhered to the body.

Body. Deep thorax, with delineated ribs affluent. Flat, of medium length, muscular back, slightly inclined towards the hip whose bones excel and enough are distanced to each other. Straight, strong kidneys and a little short.

Later extremities. Powerful corvejones angulados well. Great distance between hip and corvejón, little separated the angle of corvejón and the foot. They can present/display spurs.

Feet. Previous: opened wide forts and of long and dense hairs, with fingers either bent and supported plants or on the ground.
Later: lengths, a little less wide than the previous ones, also covered with long hairs and tightened.

Tail. Not too much it cuts, finishing in ring, little provided with hair. The dog takes it raised when it is in action.

Coat. Very long, silky, of fine texture, short and tightened single in the face. All the colors are admitted.

FEEDING. The nutritional necessities, in ration of maintenance, vary from 1,250 to 1,700 Kcal. daily in the units with a motor activity average. The provision of minerals, vegetal vitamins and oils, is essential not only in the more evident stage of the development when are the signs from deficiencies, but throughout all the life and, of particular way, in the female during the period of gestation and lactancia.

DAILY CARES. The maintenance of the coat in perfect state, is united to diverse factors: feeding without excesses nor deficiencies; possibility of using a relatively ample space where to show and to develop its way to be; hygiene of the perrera and, finally, the use of a brush that must mainly go with force the body.
The proprietor must make exhaustive newspapers and inspection of the skin with the purpose of detecting the presence of possible ectoparásitos that find in the dense hair a good site to hide.

DISEASES. In the Afghan, a hereditary disease is well-known that is pronounced with a progressive opacity of the crystalline that causes serious upheavals in the vision.
The precocious diagnosis can become in the units with an age next to the twelve months.
Also a disease is described that is originated by an insufficient contribution of oxygen or blood, to the spinal marrow. Forms are not known to cure this disease, able to cause the death of the dog in a time that goes of the fifteen to the fifty days.

 

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