Ad ogni proprietario il suo cane: il Saluki 
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Who wants to know the poet, go to the place of the poet .
Never truer words could be borrowed from the literary context in its broadest sense and breath, to be included in the relationship between man and animal, with special reference to the one-man dog.
I could dedicate this blog with a simple "
the match with a Saluki " means "dog of the Bedouin Arabs," the "Lord of desert. " A beautiful animal capable of touching the 70 km / h in his attitude of choice: the hunt "on sight".
Many years have passed since the day I saw one for the first time in Milan, a fortunate encounter that made me want to study "the world" of this race, ancient and unchanged as their own relationship with man. Jealously
selected by nomadic peoples in the Middle East for thousands of years, which have retained the ability through a targeted selection and sacred, the Saluki might be the most obvious representation of the injustice within the modern dog.
An ancient genetic heritage that clashes with the modern Western civilization and its needs, unable to find the meeting point in the dog-man partnership. For the Salukis
man was once his "gamekeeper" and today a simple owner of the city.
His desert has become the home garden or public park, while the highest predatory instinct is no longer seen as an attitude, but as a problem.
have inevitably changed the face of that bound in a unique combination of man and the Saluki, but it remained unchanged in its most profound - genotypic and phenotypic - that comes dall'Arabian Saluki Center in Abu Dhabi or any Western farming.
The Salukis, like all dogs for that matter, brings with it a spirit and an ownership that is the daughter of his homeland, and never in this race, this factor is evident.
This is what the modern concept of education / training - with its pieces and its methods - no catches, while deconstructing the soul of this dog and the very meaning of his existence.
Ask a Saluki to be like, in actions and in everyday life, a collie is like asking a Ferrari doing the Paris-Dakar ".
standards through education / training behavior between the races, taking them into account only in general is the worst blasphemy dog \u200b\u200bkind of mold, as well as the unjust simplification the concept of "otherness" so dear to the same kind that professionals from many disciplines zooantropologiche.
The Saluki is "coursing", is "racing" is hunting and tracking game on artificial intelligence. It is not "the good dog to take a walk" or the dog to "train" under a dalmatian or a golden retriever.
The question I most often is done by the owners of Saluki (but also by so-called "cinofilosofi") when their partner begins to grow and show his true character is: - "So what should I do to make my happy dog? "
The answer is simple: - "You should not buy one, or to realize that for a specimen of this race must have a sensitivity and a dog-loving culture that goes beyond the concept of" ownership ", to" walk "and" education / training "and" ménage urban family. "
The Saluki is a hunter's instinct, "meaning in the word"
not superior in appearance hunting style of art "and therefore not in need of specific training by its very nature (in essence, little training).
has a "lifestyle" one who alone knows, and living it to the bottom, and dialogue can be understood.
His character is quite reserved and shy (the Bedouins have them selected in this way because they feared the theft by rival tribes), it is very gratified by physical contact and not very tolerant of handling, while in the field has an intraspecific little sense of competition (they were, and are used in the hunt in pairs or in small packs) and a rather modest vocalization.
These characteristics make a dog "atypical" for the average owner, used to not see any difference between a breed of dog and another, and is often able to put in serious difficulty many educators / trainers Western dog fanciers, as the Saluki does not consider this tidbit as a motivational trigger good enough, plus becoming introverted in the face of violent voice commands (persistent and elusive in the case of coercion).
emotional homeostasis of these wonderful dogs is determined by the balance deep that only the owner can pour through the consciousness of all those values \u200b\u200bthat insist on race, along with a lifestyle that enhances its true qualities and abilities.
For these reasons, the Saluki has often been called the "cat dog".
A Saluki does not see human nell'appagamento (exercises in combination) a strength, at all. He independence that allows him to bring his owner on his own level, quickly find all sides and nuances from which they draw their own conclusions, often not in line with the expectations of mankind.
The slow building of trust, by contrast, will result in faster than this and in the assignment of authority by the dog. What is a Saluki
the world for a few, a world that you should feel privileged to belong and in which to rediscover the essence of the man-dog alone for thousands of years passed until the present day.
simplify this experience is like wasting an opportunity.
part of the training modules NARE © greyhounds East (Group X) are considered a real strong point along with falconry. Two worlds so similar that are expressed in all elements - land and air - so different, but give the opportunity to immerse themselves in harmony now past that can still join us.
