ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 1月28日 02時34分

@Robert Clark l have had the pleasure to photograph lots of dogs during my career. Recently, I learned some sad news about one of my favorites: Dylan, an 11-year-old Afghan Hound, passed away following a successful run as a show dog in the United States and Asia. These photos were from the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 2010, where he was honored as Best of Opposite (the best dog that is the opposite sex to the Best of Breed winner). During the photoshoot Dylan saw an open doorway and he was gone like a shot, it took 15 minutes to get him back on the set as he had made it clear across the hotel Pennsylvanian.

The Afghan Hound is a hound that is distinguished by its thick, fine, silky coat and its tail with a ring curl at the end. The breed was selectively bred for its unique features in the cold mountains of Afghanistan. It is one of the fastest breeds and most closely related to the Saluki. Today's modern purebred breed of Afghan Hound descends from dogs brought to Great Britain in the 1920s.
Although the breed is demonstrably ancient, verifiable written or visual records that tie today's Afghan Hound breed to specific Afghan owners or places are absent. There is much speculation about the breed's origin and possible connections with the ancient world among fanciers and in non-scientific breed books and breed websites. Connections with other types and breeds from the same area may provide clues to the history. A name for a desert coursing #Afghan #hound, Tazi (sag-e-tazi), suggests a shared ancestry with the very similar Tasy breed from the Caspian Sea area of Russia and Turkmenistan. Other types or breeds of similar appearance are the Taigan from the mountainous Tian Shan region on the Chinese border of Afghanistan, and the Barakzay, or Kurram Valley Hound.

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