THE TOY GROUP

Italian Greyhound

Champion Cumblin Kangaroo
Has won a Toy Dog BIS award
Sire :- Ch.Salspa Sapphire Dam :- Cumblin Swallow
BREEDER :- Margaret Douthwaite. OWNER :- Margaret Douthwaite

Elegant and graceful, rather like a Whippet in miniature. Very affectionate and a little timid he has a long head small thin ears and a long neck. The coat is smooth and fine.
Colours are solid grey, slate grey, black, all shades of fawn or white cream, red or any of those colours with white.

UK & Irish Clubs..... UK & Irish Breeders..... Breed Information.....
Interesting Sites ..... Stud Dogs .... History

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This breed has Kennel Club Challenge Certificates at most Championship Shows.

UK & Irish Clubs

Update	Club Name	Contact	Phone number	Homepage	Email
2004	Italian Greyhound Club	Dr Phillips Griffiths	01497 851649	yes	yes
Italian Greyhound Soc UK	?	?	?	yes	yes

Information

Size	Active	Temperament	Kennel	Training	Grooming	Problems
Ht 32 - 38 cm = (12½ - 15") 2.7 - 4.5kg = 6 - 10 lbs	Very	Timid	No	Difficult	Easy	yes

UK & Irish Breeders

Affix	Contact	Telephone	Area	Email	Homepage
DALINSET	David Russell & Linda Hodges	.+44 (0)1933 222504	Wellingborough	no	yes
HESTA	Mr M Pullen	0044(0)1752 894962	Ivybridge	no	no
CUMBLIN	Margaret Douthwaite	0044(0)1522 881135	Lincoln	no	no

Stud dogs

Name	Picture	Owner	Telephone	Area	Email	Homepage

Interesting Sites, Foreign Clubs and breeders

Affix	Contact	Telephone	Area	Email	Homepage
Italian Greyhound Club of America	Terri Dickinson	n/a	TX. USA	yes	yes
Italian Greyhound club of Italy	n/a	n/a	n/a	yes	yes

Problems

limb fractures are common

History

Stonehenge (1872) says - ' in shape he should as nearly as possible resemble the English Greyhound in all but size' and that the 'the chief points characteristic of the Italian greyhound are shape colour and size'
He mentions nothing of the History of the breed but say's
' The colour most prized is a golden fawn. The dove-coloured fawn comes next. Then the cream colour, and blue fawn or fawn with blue muzzle, black-muzzled fawn, the black-muzzled red, and plain red, yellow, the cream-coloured, and the black; the white, the blue, the white and fawn, and white and red. Whenever the dog is of a whole colour, there should be no white whatever on the toes, legs or tail; and even a star on the breast is considered a defect, though not so great as on the feet.'
Size most prized is about '--- six to eight pounds -- ' Stonehenge also gives a pedigree of (Mr Gowan's) Billy. (1850's) and (Mr Hanly's) Minnie.

Leighton (1912) Gives a much better idea if the history saying ' - - - Greek art presents many examples of a small dog of greyhound type. and that there is a probability that diminutive breed was a familiar ornament in the atrium of most Roman villas - - ' also that '- - - in Pompeii a dwarfed Greyhound was certainly kept as a domestic pet, and therefor some justification for the belief that the Italian prefix is not misplaced - - '

Idstone (1871) pronounced that Mr Macdonald's Molly was the most perfect specimen ever seen; but it was said she was overshot.