Unlike
most sight hounds, the Ibizan Hound usually barks when chasing.
Like
most sight hounds, because the Italian Greyhound's slender skull is near the same width as its neck, the use of a Martingale Collar is advised for walking.
Not exact matches
Examples would be agility, fly ball, hunt trials for sporting dogs, earth trials for terriers, lure coursing for
sight hounds and tracking which
most breeds of dogs are able to do to some degree.
Most of our dog breeds have some form of aggression in them, since they needed different forms of aggression to do their work: terriers are often aggressive towards other dogs and animals — they were and are fighters, the man working dogs imprint humans as being of their same species so they show the same kind of aggression that they show towards other dogs, the
sight hounds were bred to be killers of game and sometimes other canines, the mastiffs were bred to take down large game and guard property, the flock guards were bred to be aggressive towards canines, the
hounds were bred to be aggressive towards furred animals, some of the pointers were bred to be able to guard the hunter's game, etc., etc..
The visual streak is
most pronounced in long - nosed dogs; the
sight hound dogs developed to hunt and chase.
By nature these dogs are
sight hounds and will chase after
most things that they see so they do not do well off leash and should always be supervised with small pets.
They are
sight hounds, and one of the
most ancient dog breeds still existing in the world.
Like
most other
sight hounds, IGs love to run!
However from these original dogs long legged
sight hounds were developed by
most area or countries, resulting in the Ibizan
hound, the saluki (from the middle east), the sloughi from north Africa, the greyhound in England and many others.
Translation: Breeders have done next to nothing useful in combating HD in their breeds because they refuse to employ the
most potent tools, like outcrossing and accelerated breeding and culling (which is how HD was bred out of many
sight hound breeds).
When hunting the dogs use
sight, scent, and sound unlike
most hounds which tend to specialize as
sight or scent hunters.
While the Pharaoh
Hound is known by
most as a
sight hound the American Kennel Club also classifies this amazingly graceful dog as a scent
hound and with both of these classifications it makes this dog a particularly good candidate for hunting companionship.