100% Pure-bred Village Dogs
May 12, 2010
I quite enjoyed this flyer posted at my daughter’s school.
It reads:
Free Puppies
100% Pure-bred Village Dogs
- Friendly with children
- Superior guard dogs
- Good hunting dogs (grass cutters, palm rats)
Grass cutters are Greater Cane Rats which grow to be about two feet long and up to about 20 pounds.
I think the poster is only being slightly facetious about the puppies being pure-bred. In Accra, it is difficult to get a pure village-type dog. A lot of the dogs here are noticeably mixed with European breeds like German Shepherd, Rottweiler, Doberman Pinscher, Labradors, Beagles and Terriers.
The unadulterated local dogs are more like a giant Basenji or Azawakh-Basenji cross. I would expect that in the Hausa region in the north of Ghana as you enter the Sahel and approach Burkina Faso border, the local dogs are likely indistinguishable from Azawakh.
Aidi wan n'Eezel: the loyal azawakh 