Sentences with phrase «direct ancestors of the breed»
At various times during its history, the breed (and direct ancestors of the breed) were known as Rat - Tail Spaniels, Whip - Tail Spaniels, and Shannon Spaniels.
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It's widely regarded that a particular breed of this dog, St. John's Dog, is a direct ancestor of the Labrador Retriever as we know it today.
[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.