Its interesting that the Afghan Hound often comes out on top in least intelligent breeds of dog reviews.

Having owned Afghan Hounds for more than 40 years and studied their history, I’m afraid I could’t agree less.

Infact I would go as far as saying that the Afghan Hound is amongst the most intelligent of breeds.

If their inteligence is measured by their ability to obey instructions from their owners then we are doing them a big injustice.
When you consider that they are one of the oldest recorded breeds, then acheiving this status as dumbos I would suggest would be very difficult.

Infact in their early history they were providers of food for their human counterparts. They would do this by travelling miles in difficult terrain and under dangerous condition.

The Afghan Hound would fight off any and all competition such as Snow Leopards and Wolves. They would catch all kinds of prey including wild boar and bring this back to the shepherds and of course the shepherd dogs, you know, the intelligent ones. All this the Afghan Hound did without human instruction, thinking for themselves, living on their witts and working as a team.

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