Piccolo Segugio dell'Appennino

The Piccolo Segugio dell'Appennino is a small hound that is relatively common along the Apennine mountain range of Italy. It is a variety of the Segugio dell'Appennino.

This hound stands at most 48 centimetres to the withers and is found both with smooth and rough coats. It is mostly used for hunting hares, although it can occasionally hunt wild boar as well.

The Società Italiana Pro Segugio (Italian Association for Scenthounds) gathered 1450 specimens of this dogs in the year 2000 by scouring the Italian countryside and registered a total of 824 dogs as breed founders, thus guaranteeing ample genetic variability within the breed. Most dog breeds are derived by a very small number of founders (for example just 9 dogs were used as founders during the creation of the Siberian Husky) and therefore inbreeding tends to be high, resulting in a high incidence of illness due to gene mutations.[1] The breed was eventually recognized by ENCI, the Italian kennel Club.

The standard is as follows

Of the utmost importance in the selection of this dog was its ability to hunt.

Others Segugio dell'Appennino's varieties

In the Lombardy and Piedmont regions, a variant of these dogs is known as "ciaplen" amongst local hunters and has almost mythical status due to its intelligence and ability on the hunt. The others official varieties are:

References

  1. ↑ "Purebred Dog Breeds into the Twenty-First Century". Retrieved 28 July 2016.
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