AFGHAN HOUND

ăfˈgăn, breed of tall, swift hound originating about 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Its modern ancestors were perfected in the northern part of Afghanistan and introduced into England after World War I. The Afghan hound stands between 24 and 28 in. (61–71.1 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs between 50 and 60 lb (22.7–27.2 kg). The long, silky coat is very fine in texture and may be any color. Its unique appearance is partly the result of the position of its hipbones, which are set wider apart and higher than in most other breeds. This hip conformation enables the Afghan to cover uneven country swiftly and contributes to its effectiveness as a sight hunter in the mountainous terrain of its native Afghanistan. Today it is rapidly gaining popularity as a house pet. See dog.

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books on: Afghan Hound  - 31 results

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The Value of Culture: On the Relationship between Economics and Arts
Book by Arjo Klamer; Amsterdam University Press, 1996
Subjects: Arts--Economic Aspects, Culture--Economic Aspects
...conflated image of his wife Jacqueline and his pet Afghan," was sometimes alternatively described as: "a baboon, bird, phoenix, horse, sea horse, Afghan hound, nun, Barbara Streisand, and a viking helmet" p...
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Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy
Book by Harriet F. Senie, Sally Webster; Harper Collins, 1992
...things, "a baboon, bird, phoenix, horse, sea horse, Afghan hound, nun, Barbra Streisand, and a viking helmet." 4...Picassos conflated image of his wife Jacqueline and his pet Afghan combines, in abstract form, the objects of his most...
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An Answer from Limbo: A Novel
Book by Brian Moore; Little Brown, 1962
Subjects: Authors, Irish--Northern Ireland--Belfast--Psychology--Fiction, Bohemianism--New York (State)--New York--Fiction, Irish--Travel--New York (State)--New York--Fiction
...for the street. The bar door shut. A gust of warm air huffed down Seventh Avenue, ruffling the feathery coat of an Afghan hound which led a tall homosexual home; ballooning two cellophane-covered suits held aloft like a prize catch by a passing...
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Virginia Woolf: Feminism, Creativity, and the Unconscious
Book by John R. Maze; Greenwood Press, 1997
Subjects: Creation (Literary, Artistic, Etc.), Feminism And Literature--England--History--20th Century, Fiction, Psychological Fiction, English--History And Criticism, Subconsciousness In Literature, Women And Literature--England--History--20th Century, Woolf, Virginia--1882-1941--Criticism And Interpretation
...eyeless monster moving on legs, brandishing arms" 17 . It is Bart Oliver, with a paper snout over his face, and his Afghan hound Sohrab who have rushed between George and the flower. Despite this wishful fantasy of rescue, however, in life the...
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Prospective Issues in Infancy Research
Book by Kathleen Bloom; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1981
Subjects: Infant Psychology--Research
...stimuli on the basis of their conceptual grouping rather than their perceptual cues. Calling both a Chihuahua and an Afghan hound "doggie" whereas calling a cat and a tiger "kitty" indicates that the child has learned to respond to stimuli that...
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journal articles on: Afghan Hound  - 10 results

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Dogs and People: The History and Psychology of a Relationship
Journal article; Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, Vol. 24-26, 1996
Subjects: Authors--Addresses, essays, lectures, Coren, Stanley--Addresses, essays, lectures, Dog breeds--Social aspects, Dog owners--Psychology and mental health, Dogs--Social aspects, Psychologists--Addresses, essays, lectures
...for it to hunt? The elegant Afghan Hound, which many people have come...man developed was the scent hound. They hunt by tracking the...The prototype of the scent hound is the bloodhound. The bloodhound...them to finally call out the hounds to go find him. Ray had expected...
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Pleasure Reading
Journal article by Nancy J. Johnson, Cyndi Giorgis; The Reading Teacher, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Children's books--Information services, Children's literature--Evaluation
...Drover. The brothers are no match for the ingenious hound when he challenges them to the Deadly Ha-Ha Game, and...naughty. A speedy greyhound will need to zoom, while an Afghan hound will be too tough to groom. When Tinribs admits defeat...
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Virginia Woolf's "Wild England": George Borrow, Autoethnography, and between the Acts
Journal article by Helen Southworth; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 39, 2007
Subjects: Between the Acts (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Between the Acts (Novel)--Influence, Borrow, George Henry--Criticism and interpretation, Borrow, George Henry--Influence, Lavengro (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Lavengro (Novel)--Influence, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Influence, Woolf, Virginia--Criticism and interpretation, Woolf, Virginia--Influence
...not to music, but to the unheard rhythm of their own wild hearts" (65); and wild, yellow-eyed Sohrab, Barts Afghan hound, "bounds and bounces among the flowers" (12; see Beer xxi-xxvii). La Trobe as Borrovian Ethnographer The presence...
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The Jewishness of the Contemporary Gentile Writer: Zadie Smith's the Autograph Man
Journal article by Andrew Furman; MELUS, Vol. 30, 2005
Subjects: American fiction--Analysis, American fiction--Jewish authors, Jewish American fiction--Analysis, Smith, Zadie--Criticism and interpretation, Smith, Zadie--Works, The Autograph Man (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...various melancholy angles," Tandem dolefully observes as he gazes upon one of these photographs. "Only their lean Afghan hound looks at the camera, as if he knows the future secret of their terrible deaths, the location and order" (79...
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The Yes Lilies
Journal article by Fiona Hile; Hecate, Vol. 32, 2006
Subjects: Families & family life
...through the creatures eyes), her mothers elaborately groomed Afghan hound ran away (or was set loose), and their special cat, Susie...and drooping against a turquoise background. On top of the hounds head, peering into its sad upturned eyes, perched a small...
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magazine articles on: Afghan Hound  - 17 results

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Afghan Video Reveals Problems with Proselytism by U.S. Military
Magazine article; Church & State, Vol. 62, June 2009
Subjects: Afghan foreign relations--Military aspects, Afghan foreign relations--Religious aspects, American soldiers--Social aspects, Proselytizing--Laws, regulations and rules, Proselytizing--Political aspects, United States foreign relations--Military aspects, United States foreign relations--Religious aspects, Video recordings--Religious aspects
Afghan Video Reveals Problems with Proselytism...forbids soldiers from proselytizing the Afghan population. Afghanistan is overwhelmingly...Jesus. We do, we hunt them down. Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into...
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Citizen Canine
Magazine article by Edward Tenner; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 22, Summer 1998
Subjects: Dogs--Political aspects, National characteristics--Analysis
...The Teutonic Dachshund has Gallic Basset Hound blood. The Australian Shepherd was developed...to put together narratives of the Afghan Hound as a breed - this at a time when Afghanistan...create a national consciousness of the Tazi Hound, as it is called locally. Some foreigners...
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It's a Dog's Life (Again)
Magazine article by Nicholas Wapshott; New Statesman, Vol. 137, June 9, 2008
Subjects: Biotechnology industries--Planning, Biotechnology industry--Planning, Human cloning--Ethical aspects
...involvement of the disgraced South Korean geneticist Hwang Woo-suk, who in 2005 concocted the first cloned dog, an Afghan hound called Snuppy, and was the brain of Missy. His claims to have cloned human embryonic stem cells in the learned journal...
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Lela Rochon: Scene Stealer
Magazine article by Aldore Collier; Ebony, Vol. 51, May 1996
Subjects: African American actresses--Interviews, Rochon, Lela--Interviews
...Eddie Murphy spotted in New Yorks Central Park. Breathtakingly cool in an all-white ensemble and walking a white Afghan hound, she created an unforgettable visual treat for Murphys character and moviegoers. Again, Rochon appeared in the film...
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I'm with Stupid
Magazine article by Will Durst; The Progressive, Vol. 59, May 1995
Subjects: Buchanan, Patrick--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Presidential candidates--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Republican Party--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.
...we made the blankets out of ripe cod scales, we could get those Navy dolphins to retrieve them. No. Afghans. We could use real Afghan hound-skin straight from those elitist art wonks who lost their jobs during the Great Art Purge of 1995...
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newspaper articles on: Afghan Hound  - 120 results

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Du Vin,du Pain, et le Chien. at the Age of 56, Journalist and Broadcaster Fidelma Cook Was Made Redundant, Spurring Her to Pack Up and Move to Rural France. but Would She Be 'Living the Dream' or Making a Huge Blunder? and What on Earth Would Her Beloved Afghan Hound Portia Make of It All?
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 4, 2009
Subjects: Broadcasting industry, Journalists, Painters, Painters (Artists)
...totally neurotic afghan hound Portia, whose vets...a month. An afghan hound? Im a baby boomer, remember? Afghan hounds and afghan coats were...Portia is my fourth afghan. I am blonde, but...mainstay and icebreaker. Afghans are rare in France...Fidelma, above, with her afghan hound Portia, and, top...
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Du Vin,du Pain, et le Chien. at the Age of 56, Journalist and Broadcaster Fidelma Cook Was Made Redundant, Spurring Her to Pack Up and Move to Rural France. but Would She Be 'Living the Dream' or Making a Huge Blunder? and What on Earth Would Her Beloved Afghan Hound Portia Make of It All?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 3, 2009
Subjects: Broadcasting industry, Journalists, Painters, Painters (Artists)
...Earth Would Her Beloved Afghan Hound Portia Make of It All? Byline...but totally neurotic afghan hound Portia, whose vets bills...up e170 a month. An afghan hound? Im a baby boomer, remember? Afghan hounds and afghan coats countryside...beautiful. Portia is my fourth afghan. I am blonde, but bleached...mainstay and icebreaker. Afghans are rare in France, particularly...
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Afghan Hound Is Saved from the Frontline
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 27, 2010
Subjects: Soldiers
Afghan Hound Is Saved from the Frontline. Byline: Daily Mail Reporter HE spent five years patrolling alongside British troops in Afghanistan...
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Afghan Hound Is Saved from the Front Line
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 27, 2010
Subjects: Soldiers
Afghan Hound Is Saved from the Front Line. Byline: Daily Mail Reporter HE spent five years patrolling alongside British troops in Afghanistan...
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DOG OF WAR; Troops' Pooch Benji Has the Taliban Drug Lords on Run: AFGHAN HOUND SNIFFS OUT OPIUM: EXCLUSIVE
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), August 23, 2009
Subjects: Drugs and athletes, Opium, Pharmaceutical industry, Soldiers
...Troops Pooch Benji Has the Taliban Drug Lords on Run: AFGHAN HOUND SNIFFS OUT OPIUM: EXCLUSIVE. Byline: STEPHEN STEWART...recovered. The airborne assault involved 300 British and Afghan troops and smashed Taliban compounds and opium processing...
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encyclopedia articles on: Afghan Hound  - 3 results

 
 
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Afghan Hound
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AFGHAN HOUND af gan, breed of tall, swift hound originating...introduced into England after World War I. The Afghan hound stands between 24 and 28 in. (61...breeds. This hip conformation enables the Afghan to cover uneven country swiftly and contributes...
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Hound
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...high. Also classified as hounds are several long-legged breeds...third variety, called treeing hounds, also track by scent; these...raccoons and opossums. Many scent hounds have a coat characteristically patterned in "hound colors": black, white...the American Kennel Club: Afghan hound , American foxhound...
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Ibizan Hound
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
IBIZAN HOUND ebe zon, ib , also called Ibizan Podenco, breed of tall, swift dog of...prick-eared greyhound of ancient Egypt, although similarities to both the afghan and the basenji suggest the possibility that the breed was originated by...


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