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(Afghan Hound Denmark World Congress Report)DENMARK 1997
3rd World Afghan Congress Report #5
G. Jipping (Netherlands) Page1
"WHAT'S THE RIGHT TYPE?"(The following is a copy of the notes by G. Jipping for his presentation to the Congress on June 20 1997 . These notes are reproduced here with the kind permission of G Jipping. We also thank Wilma and Jan Van der Wey in Holland for providing the copy and for obtaining permission for reproduction on our site).
Dear Afghan Hound friends,
I was very surprised the fact that I was invited to give a speech at the world congress. The speech wasn't the problem but my bad English is. In spite of that I accepted the invitation because in my opinion The Netherlands plays a great part in the history of the Afghan Hound, and even today we still keep a type that is close to the origin of the first imports in Holland. I also think we need to talk more to each other in the Afghan Hound world and in all frankness. To the organisation of the Afghan Hound World Congress, thank you very much for the invitation which I accepted with great pleasure.
I would like to apologise for my bad English and I hope that you will say at the end of my speech "his English was not so correct but his message was straight, open and clear".
In the beginning our country knew only two types, the mountain type and the desert type. The desert type doesn't exist anymore in our country, but the almost pure bred mountain type was kept by the breeders as good as they could. At this moment our country has breeders which stick to their ideal image of the already mentioned type, but there are also some breeders who breed a different type Afghan Hound of which they think is ideal. These last breeders use dogs mostly from America, England and Scandinavia and have a lot of show success.
Most Dutch people think that serious breeders must be free in their choice of type, as long as they fit in the FCI breed standard.
In the Netherlands the interest of the Afghan Hound is served by the Netherland Club for Eastern Sight Hounds, known as N.V.O.W. They also serve the interest of Saluki's, Sloughie's, Azawahka, Pharao, Podenco and Cimeco dell Etna. The N.V.O.W was founded on the 21st of July 1935 by Mrs Jungeling-van de Berg, mother of the well known breed specialist Han Jungeling. At this moment the N.V.O.W. has 400 members and only 10 breeders of Afghan Hounds. The number of puppies bred each year is about 60 against 700 in the seventies. The Netherlands has 16 judges for Afghan Hounds. Probably you already met one of them. We have about 15 international shows each year and one of them is the well known winner show in Amsterdam and about 75 little. The N.V.O.W. has a yearly speciality show, the CC you win here counts double and the reserve counts for 1 CC.
G. Jipping June 97
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