Talk:Scottish Deerhound

Moved from Scottish Deerhound to Deerhound because the AKC is the only major kennel club that calls it something other than simply Deerhound, and the dog breeds project is attempting to match the more common international usage. (As seen in List of dog breeds.) Elf | Talk 22:08, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I have made a few modest changes. The previous commentary on hunting to exhaustion was incorrect. Deer coursing and deer-stalking in the 1700-1800's in the Highlands of Scotland was gruelling physical exercise, mainly done on foot due to the rugged terrain. Allowing dogs to run deer to exhaustion on that ground was not sensible, dogs and deer could be easily lost. It happened occasionally, but it was not the aim. Later in the 19th century, the running of deer by speed was curtailed as deer and dogs would too easily run onto other owners' "deer forests" at a time when game reserves in Scotland were rapidly increasing in number, but decreasing in size. Deerhounds do not hunt rabbits - they have until recently been used to course hare in official coursing competition in the UK. Richard Hawkins 16:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Vulnerable Native Breed

This breed is classed in Britain as a VNB - a breed which originated in the UK but now has registration numbers with the Kennel Club of less then 300 puppies per year.

I'm a Canadian teenager on a gap year before Uni and I'm really interested in this. Would anyone like a VNB paragraph/link on this page? I can write it, but am ignorant about formatting etc. Plus, I'm trying to put together a whole collection on all 29 breeds on this list, including history and so on, using Wikipedia as one of my many sources. If you can help, or are interested at all, please contact me either on my talk page or at green_ied_dragon@hotmail.com

--The Wizard of Magicland 18:18, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks WoM. As mentioned at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bloodhound#Vulnerable_Native_Breed I think this would be a suitable section heading under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennel_Club_%28UK%29 , with links to the History or Outcross sections for each affected breed. Sanft 14:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)