Sentences with phrase «sight hounds do»

These speedy sight hounds do need daily walks and some time to safely run around in an enclosed area, but once they're done they love nothing more than curling up on the couch.

Just don't do ANY off - leash work unless you are in a fully fenced, secure area or you will find out what a sight hound does naturally — they run.

Lost dogs find their way home by smelling and since a sight hound does not have as keen a sense of smell as other breeds, a Greyhound that runs 40 miles per hour will be a long way away in a short period of time and may not be able to find his way home and back to his loved ones.

Not exact matches

A sight hound may chase things in the distance that you don't see; having your pup respond to your return command will prove invaluable.

This is the reason they are referred to as «sight hounds», because they track game using their eyes, not their noses as a Basset Hound or Bloodhound does.

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..

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.

While sight hounds track prey by always keeping them in sight, scent hounds can simply follow their noses so it doesn't matter if they lose sight of their quarry.

In contrast to sight hounds, scent hounds don't have to be particularly fast to aid in hunting.

The Saluki is an elegant, thin, tall sight hound that has a silky, smooth and soft coat that does not shed.

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).

Some sight hounds can be sweet and affectionate, but not all do well with children.

As a result of their agility in running and jumping the Pharaoh Hound excels in formal agility training and as a result of their status as sight hounds they also do particularly well in lure coursing.