AKC Hound Group
Azawakh
Loyal. reserved. Yours.
The first time you see an Azawakh move, something ancient clicks into place in your brain. This isn't a dog running, this is geometry in motion, a creature so perfectly engineered for speed across open desert that watching it feels like witnessing something that shouldn't exist outside of a nature documentary.
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"The first time you see an Azawakh move, something ancient clicks into place in your brain."
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The Azawakh experience
You know you're a Azawakh owner when...
●The lean. Not a casual lean, a full-body, bony, angular press into your legs that says 'I am here and you are mine' with the weight distribution of a folding chair made of elbows.
●Watching strangers try to pet your dog and getting The Look, that flat, pharaonic stare that makes grown adults retract their hand and mutter 'okay, maybe not.
●The couch situation, an Azawakh doesn't sit on furniture so much as drape across it like a piece of abstract sculpture that occasionally sighs.
●Explaining the ribs. Over and over. To everyone. 'No, she's not underfed, this is what they look like, yes I'm sure, please stop looking at me like that.'
●The thirty-second explosion of speed in the backyard followed by four hours of being completely horizontal and unresponsive, like a sports car that only needs one lap to prove its point.
At a glance
alsoKnownAsTuareg Sloughi, Idi n Illeli, African Sighthound
size33–55 lbs
temperamentLoyal, reserved, elegant, independent, affectionate with family, aloof with strangers
lifespan12–15 years
energyModerate-high (intense bursts, long rest periods)
goodWithExperienced owners, sighthound-savvy families, quiet households, other Azawakhs
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Last updated: 2026-03-17
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