![]() ![]() The Medio is used for guarding and for pursuing smaller game. The largest, the Podengo Grande, is used to catch and kill deer and boar more hunter than companion, it’s a scarce breed even in its homeland. The Portuguese podengo comes in three sizes, each of which shows traces of its ancestry. Like the dingo, the basenji, the Canaan and the New Guinea Singing Dog, the podengo is a primitive breed, a dog whose evolution has had scant human influence and that retains many of the physical and behavioural attributes of its wild cousins.Ĭommon among primitive dogs is a short dense coat, often in a shade of ginger dashed with white a compact body, erect ears and almond-shaped eyes and a tendency to howl or yodel rather than bark. The podengo is largely unknown outside its native Portugal, although in recent years it has gained a small following in the US and UK, where it is commonly called the Warren Hound, and most particularly in Finland, a nation that likes its dogs neat and rare. Competition name ‘Sleykh Cacao Chuao’, street name ‘Cino’, the little dog is a Portuguese podengo, one of only six in the country and here on display for the first time. ![]() Among the canine entrants on the third day of competition at this year’s Royal Melbourne Show – the ethereal salukis and monolithic St Bernards, the dandyish whippets and the gentlemanly schnauzers – one small and comparatively unremarkable animal is attracting more than its fair share of attention. ![]()
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