Sight hounds are nice. But I don't think too many people use them for hunting these days in the U.S.
I think the A-rabs use them a lot - Salukis and Sloughis and Azawakhs ( now THAT'S a sighthound).
I posted that in response to someone asking of hounds were all scent tracking dogs.
I've never seen an Azawakhs. I'll have to look that up.
I don't care for hounds so much myself. They are rather indepenent. I like to look at them, just don't want to have to train one! A friend of my husband's had a pack of dogs that were catahoula mixes (I think there was some airedale in there, and who knows what else). He hunted bear and pigs with them. OOOO those were well muscled dogs, but they didn't seem real friendly!
susie