Ibizan Hound Did You Know?

• Date Ibizan Hound entered into Regular AKC Classes: January 1, 1979.
• Phoenician sailors are said to have brought the Ibizan hounds to the island of Ibiza in the eighth century. Hannibal, himself an Ibizan, took some of these dogs with him on his famous trip across the Alps.
• Ibizan Hound history is traceable back to approximately 3400 BC.
• Ibizan Hound breeding stock was first imported to the U.S. by Colonel and Mrs. Consuelo Seoane. Their first two hounds, Hannibal and Tanit, produced a litter of eight puppies on September 3, 1956.
• The Ibizan Hound Club of the United States became an AKC member club and gained specialty show status in 1992.
• The tomb of Tutankhamen proved a treasure trove when discovered in 1922; the life-size statue of Anubis, the "Watchdog of the Dead," is the identical duplicate of the Ibizan Hound of today.