Sentences with phrase «ancient dog breeds still»

They are sight hounds, and one of the most ancient dog breeds still existing in the world.

It is one of the few ancient dog breeds still in existence in the world today.

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Although the exact details regarding the domestication of the dog is still unknown, historians are able to trace the origins of most of today's breeds to these ancient breeds or to the extinct breeds they came from.

This breed comes from Sweden and it is a spitz - type dog that, while ancient in terms of its origins, is still rare.

The saluki, an ancient breed also known as the Persian greyhound, gazelle hound and Arabian hound, was the royal dog of ancient Egypt and is still greatly prized by both nomadic and settled Arabs in the Middle East.

But supporters of the theory contend that enough of the foundational stock is ancient, including the greyhound and the Khoikhoi dog (from which the ridged back derives), that even though it was developed relatively recently and for use with modern firearms, the breed can still be considered to be of a «primitive type».