Kazakh Tazy

The Kazakh Tazy is a Central Asian sighthound of the steppe — a hunting dog traditionally worked with eagles and now a recognised national breed of Kazakhstan.

History

It has coursed hare, fox and gazelle across the Kazakh steppe for a thousand years or more, often in partnership with a golden eagle, and it belongs to the wider Saluki-Tazi family of Asian sighthounds. Kazakhstan has run conservation programmes for it, and international recognition arrived only recently.

Temperament

The breed is known for being calm and undemonstrative at home and intensely focused in pursuit, loyal to its own household and indifferent to strangers.

Care and training

It needs room to gallop and very secure fencing; a sighthound in chase is unreachable. Training works through relationship. The short coat with its feathered ears needs little.

Health

Sighthound anaesthetic sensitivity applies; a landrace gene pool has otherwise kept it robust. These are patterns for the breed rather than a forecast for one dog; the measured facts are in the panel.