Sentences with phrase «rhodesian ridge»

Tina Seay: Chloe my 8 year old female healer / Rhodesian ridge back mix, 8 and Mocha, my female hound dog that lived to be 15 and a half.

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Rhodesian Ridgebacks, often known as African Bull Dogs, Ridgebacks, African Lion Hounds, Rhodesian Lion Dogs, and African Lion Dogs, are very unique and easy to recognize because of the distinct ridge of hair growing forward on the top of the breeds» back.

The other two breeds with the ridge back feature are the Rhodesian Ridgeback of Zimbabwe and the Phu Quoc Ridgeback of Vietnam.

The ridge of fur down their back goes in the opposite direction of their coat as is also seen in the Rhodesian Ridgeback.

About 10 % of Rhodesian Ridgeback puppies are born without a ridge.

But there's another practice that goes on within the Rhodesian Ridgeback community, and that is the practice of euthanizing healthy puppies who are born without the typical ridge of hair along their back.

Anxious to benefit from the same protective skills his friend's canines possessed, Reverend Helm bred his own two ridge - back bitches with van Rooyen's hunting dogs, and so began the start of the Rhodesian Ridgeback bloodline.

In Asian countries the Thai Ridgeback (silver - colored) and the Phu Quoc Ridgebacks (black - colored) have similar coats and ridges to those of the Rhodesian variety.

Though not all Rhodesian Ridgebacks have the trademark ridge, it an unusual case for an animal not to possess one.

A versatile, athletic hound, the Rhodesian Ridgeback is distinguished by a ridge that runs down his back where the hair grows opposite the coat.

Rhodesian Ridgebacks or African lion dogs as they are sometimes known are renowned for the ridge of hair which runs down their spine.

These settlers brought Great Danes, Mastiffs, Greyhounds, Salukis, Bloodhounds, and other breeds that they eventually mixed and matched with the native Hottentot «ridged» dog to produce the courageous and versatile Rhodesian Ridgeback.

The Rhodesian Ridgeback's distinguishing feature is the ridge of hair running along its back in the opposite direction from the rest of its coat.

Ridged primitive - There is also a group of ridgeback fanciers who believe Rhodesian Ridgebacks should be thought of in terms of the FCI's group 5.8.

[11] It is not known if these two first direct ancestors of Rhodesian Ridgebacks had dorsal hair pattern ridges themselves, but they founded the Rhodesian Ridgeback bloodline, so either carried the trait or it was added from other Boer dogs and hybrids with Khoikhoi ridgebacks which van Rooyen bred into his lines over many trials then generations.

If you're familiar with the popular Rhodesian ridgeback then you'll know that this breed gets its name from the distinctive ridge of hair down its spine that runs in the reverse direction ftrom he rest of its coat.

Because it has a ridge of hair running against the rest of the coat, it is thought to share a common ancestry with the Rhodesian Ridgeback.

Van Rooyen crossed his own dogs with the ridged dogs belonging to the Matabeleland missionary, the Rev. Charles Helm, and produced dogs very similar in appearance and type to the modern Rhodesian Ridgebacks.

By crossing his own hunting pack with the ridged dogs belonging to the Matabeleland missionary, the Rev. Charles Helm, in the 1870s, he produced dogs very similar in appearance and type to the modern Rhodesian Ridgeback.

Some believe that the Rhodesian Ridgeback and the only other known contemporary ridged dog, the Thai Ridgeback, are related through the Phu Quoc ancestor; both breeds share two genetic traits — the ridge and the dermoid sinus.

The hunters began to selectively breed for the ridge and, thus, the Rhodesian Ridgeback breed was born!

The Rhodesian Ridgeback, also known as the African Lion Hound, the African Lion Dog, the Rhodesian Lion Dog, the African Bull - Dog, the Van Rooyan Lion Dog and the Ridgeback, and less formally as «the dog with a snake on its back,» is instantly recognizable by the unique ridge of hair that grows forward (in the opposite direction of the rest of its coat) along the top of its back.

This dog had the ridge of hair that is so characteristic of today's Rhodesian Ridgeback.

This dog, which had a distinctive ridge of fur along its spine, was selectively bred with dogs from the European continent to develop a new breed now known as the Rhodesian Ridgeback.

A Rhodesian without a ridge would have little or no chance in the show ring.

What they have in common with the modern Rhodesian is the «zipper,» or narrow ridge of hair running down the length of the spine, and their reddish - brown color.