Sentences with phrase «small sight hounds»

Italian Greyhounds are small sight hounds that are known for their small heads and tucked up bellies.

The Italian greyhound, known by lovers as an «I.G.» or an «Iggy» for short is a well loved sight hound that makes the record books as the smallest sight hound in use today.

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Anyway, maybe it's more fun to glean something autobiographical in the sight of Krasinski and Blunt, who are married and have two kids in real life, playing parents trying to protect their children from a menace that hounds them day and night, arriving at the smallest sign of their presence.

Because they are sight hounds, Deerhounds have been known to chase down cats and small dogs.

These included spitz - breeds, toy dogs, spaniels, Mastiff - like breeds, small terriers, retrievers, herding dogs, scent - hounds, and sight - hounds.

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.

The Mudhol Hound is a sight hound from India, where it is very popular to hunt hares and small game.

Italian Greyhounds (IGs) are the smallest of the sight hound group, which also includes breeds like the Saluki, Afghan Hound, and the IG's larger cousin, the Greyhound.

Italian Greyhounds from the USA and Continental Europe, together with other small sight - hound breeds, could also be used to increase genetic diversity in both populations.

The Italian Greyhound is the smallest of the sight hounds, and these days is a popular companion dog.

Martingale collars are recommended for sight hounds because their heads are smaller than their necks and they can often slip out of standard collars.

Purebred dogs were also categorized into one of the 11 groupings based upon haplotype sharing as defined in Wayne and VonHoldt (2012)[14](n = 55,353): ancient and spitz (n = 2946), herding (n = 4579), mastiff - like (n = 5548), retriever (n = 18,347), scent hounds (n = 3742), sight hounds (n = 761), small terriers (n = 2534), spaniels (n = 4315), toy (n = 5542), working dogs 1 (poodles and Havanese; n = 1923), and working dogs 2 (n = 5116)(Additional file 1: Table S1 and Additional file 2: Table S2).

Both hound types were selectively bred to hunt a wide variety of animals: Sighthounds were used to find and chase down large game such as deer, elk, moose, and wild boar; small hounds used scent to chase prey into the ground; and medium - sized hounds utilized both sight and scent for smaller game like rabbits and foxes.