The Cretan Hound and its ?relation? to the Basenji

[Thana]

I was reading a discussion about 'rare breeds' and i suddenly remembered the Cretan Hound, a recognised dog breed that is considered to be ancient.
some say that it may be related to the basenji (Crete is a Greek island in the meditteranean sea that had trading as well as other kinds of relations with ancient Egypt.)
Here is a link to a greek sight (sorry if it's only in the Greek Lg)
take a look!

http://www.kritikosichnilatis.gr/ailefkoma.html

[Thana]

and again I wish you could read the following link refering to the basenji and the cretan hound as well:

http://www.kritikosichnilatis.gr/agkatagogikeistoria.html

[Quercus]

I went to check out the website…but it's all greek to me (ha, ha!)

Can you summarize what it says?

[sharronhurlbut]

Nice looking dog!

[Janneke]

Yes, please tell us what it says!
Love the white dog in the first link!

[YodelDogs]

Translated to English

[Quercus]

That is cool, Robyn…I had no idea you could do that!!!

[Thana]

I wish It had an English version, i sent them an email to do that in future time. i think that through Google translator, you could succeed in understanding the general idea. It has many historical facts and results of some archaeological researches… I use the google translator for many sites in other lgs:

http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=en|ja#en|el|i%20love%20my%20dog