Also known as the Shilluk Dog, or simply the Shilluk, this rare, localized East African breed is used as a sighthound, by the Shilluk tribe, to run down medium-sized game.
The Nilotic Shilluk people, who inhabit the flat plains around the White Nile in south-east Sudan, possess ‘well-bred’ greyhounds of a special type. For a sighthound, this breed has a rather robust body, and is usually fox-red in colour with a black muzzle. The colour pattern may vary a little and some dogs are grey, spotted with black. The ears try to be erect, but droop at the tips.
These Shilluk Greyhounds are set against antelope rather than against hare, a fact which may explain why this particular bred is more sturdily built than the better-known, typically lean and spindly sighthounds. Their speed and agility are exceptional.
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May 11th, 2009 at 7:32 am
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