Since 1944, my family always had Pharaoh Hounds in Italy.

We are really known as Kelb tal-Fenek and we are the official dogs of the beautiful Island Nation of Malta in Europe, between Italy and N. Africa, in the Western Mediterranean sea (50mi. S. of Italy and 220mi. NE of Tunisia in between the two Italian Islands of Lampedusa and Sicily).

My dad bought a Pharaoh Hound while he was studying Architecture at the University of Rome in 1975 and he told me that he was beautiful. His name was Banù and he grew up with his family in Trento, Italy. He told me that he loved him very much. Before that his mother also had a Pharaoh Hound given to her by a young soldier during WW2. Therefore, my dad always wanted another Pharaoh Hound since he moved to Colorado in 1982.

It took him a long time to find me, but thanks to the contact, great help, kindness and knowledge provided by Joyce Martin, he finally got in touch with two wonderful people: Linda and Greg Witt, my breeders.

In February 2002, he drove from Denver to San Francisco area to pick me up and I will never forget the two wonderful days we all had together with Linda, Greg and all those beautiful Pharaohs with whom I played so much. My dad told me that he was finally surrounded by joyful and playful Pharaoh Hounds!!!

After the long 1300 miles drive back from California to Colorado through the open spaces of Nevada, Utah and Wyoming and through several snow storms, together with my new daddy, he told me that finally we will never feel lonely anymore....and that is very true because I have found a wonderful and loving family who let me be a real Kouch King.