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A hound is a type of dog that assists hunters by tracking or chasing the animal being hunted. It can be contrasted with the gun dog, which assists hunters by identifying the location of prey, and with the retriever, which recovers shot quarry. (Encyclopædia Britannica)
There are three types of hound, with several breeds belonging to each type:
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| Sighthounds (also called gazehounds), which follow prey predominantly by speed, keeping it in sight. These dogs are very fast and will catch and kill game (e.g., hares, gazelles, deer) by themselves. |
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Whippet |
| Scent hounds, which follow prey or others (like missing people) by tracking its scent. These dogs have endurance, but are not fast runners. |
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Basset Hound |
| The 'other' hounds follow prey by both sight and scent. These breeds are difficult to classify other than to say they are neither sighthounds nor scent hounds. |
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Rhodesian Ridgeback. |
[edit] List of hound breeds
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See also: Hound Group
- Afghan Hound
- Africanis
- Artois Hound
- Azawakh
- Basenji
- Basset Bleu de Gascogne
- Basset Fauve de Bretagne
- Black and Tan Coonhound
- Black and Tan Virginia Foxhound
- Basset Griffon Vendéen (Grand)
- Basset Griffon Vendéen (Petit)
- Basset Hound
- Bavarian Mountain Hound
- Beagle
- Black and Tan Beagle
- Bloodhound
- Bluetick Coonhound
- Boarhound
- Borzoi
- Brown Labrador
- Chocolate Labrador
- Cirneco dell'Etna
- Combai
- Coonhound
- Cretan Hound
- Dachshund
- Deerhound
- Dumfriesshire Hound
- Estonian Hound
- Finnish Hound
- Foxhound
- Golden Retriever
- Gotland Hound
- German Shorthaired Pointer (GSP)
- Grand Bleu de Gascogne
- Greyhound
- Hamiltonstovare
- Harrier
- Hungarian Vizsla
- Ibizan Hound
- Italian Greyhound
- Irish Wolfhound
- Istrian Coarse-haired Hound
- Istrian Shorthaired Hound
- Kanni
- Kelb tal-Fenek
- Latvian Hound
- Lithuanian Hound
- Mudhol hound
- Norwegian Elkhound
- Otterhound
- Pharaoh Hound
- Piccolo Lepraiolo Italiano
- Plott Hound
- Polish Hound
- Portuguese Podengo
- Posavac Hound
- Rampur hound
- Rajapalayam (dog)
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
- Redbone Coonhound
- Saluki
- Segugio Italiano a Pelo Forte
- Segugio Italiano a Pelo Raso
- Segugio Maremmano
- Serbian Hound
- Serbian Tricolour Hound
- Schweizer Laufhund
- Scottish Deerhound
- Silken Windhound
- Sloughi
- Taigan
- Thai Ridgeback
- Tri-colored Beagle
- Whippet
- Yellow Labrador
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