Welcome to Afghan Hound Association website

 

The Internet home of the oldest Afghan Hound Club

We are very pleased to welcome you to our home in the online Afghan Community and hope that you will find the information contained within these pages useful and informative.

 

 

Afghan Hound Association is on Facebook

Susan writes: To all our members – the AHA have now opened a new Facebook page and we hope you will enjoy visiting it and finding association news and events. As anyone who knows me will realise, with my past record on Facebook, it took me a while to realise this had happened (gone live I think is the phrase), so apologies for the late arrival of this notice. Thank you to Richard who got me logged onto it and to those who are helping me understand it. For all those up-to-date members enjoy!

 

 

Dates for your Diary 2019

Saturday 20th April AGM and 

Monday 6th May Championship show

Saturday 20th July Back to Back Open Shows

 

 

About the Association

"The AHA is not quite as old as the breed in Britain but it has served the breed for longer than any other club.", wrote Ann Adams on her retirement as Secretary in 1984. Read more >>>

 

 

About the Afghan Hound breed

Afghan Hounds are sight hounds originating from Afghanistan, they hunt by sight. In the UK Afghan Hounds belong to the Hound Group, while under FCI rules they are placed in Group X (Sighthounds). They have distinctive characteristics and features which make them unique. Their instinct is to chase and catch anything that is running. In their native country they were used to hunt antelope and gazelle and even snow leopards. They have very good vision, strong jaws. They have lean muscular bodies, a deep chest to house their lungs, and long powerful legs. In their native country their thick coat protected them against extreme cold of the upper snow regions, but equally shielded them from the sun in the desert areas. Read more >>>