Talk:Sage Koochee

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Material for the page appears to be from one website, http://www.koocheedog.com/history.php, The Origins of The Sage Koochee by A. Rasaq Qadirie. Not copied exactly, but probably the same author (English needs some touching up.)

The dogs are a type of Livestock guardian dog similar to ones used by other pastoralists throughout the area.

Koochee is found with many spellings but the one used by government and news media (and Wikipedia) in English is Kuchi. The Kuchi and the have a very long conflict, stemming from the Pashtun tribes (of which the Kuchi are some sort of sub-unit) getting land taken by Abdur Rahman Khan when he was opressing the Hazaras in the 1890s. Also the Kuchi supported and were part of the Taliban.

The dog described by Mr. Qadirie is more interesting than a modern breed, it is an old, possibly ancient, type or landrace of dog, which has been fit through time perfectly to its environment and the needs of the humans who keep it. I hope the dog will be genetically tested, and that descriptions of its work and interactions with the people to which it is adapted will be preserved.

The type has been taken out of its environment in Afghanistan and there are now at least two kennels documenting, registering, and selling the dog under two different breed names, one in Germany and one in the US. Given the proliferation of low-requirement breed registries, there undoubtedly will be more name variations and new breeds based on this type...--Hafwyn (talk) 17:30, 4 May 2008 (UTC)