English Foxhound Explained

Also Known As:Foxhound
Country:Great Britain - England
English Foxhound
Height:23inches-25inchesin (-in)
Kc Name:The Kennel Club
Kc Std:https://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/breed-standards/hound/foxhound/
Fcistd:http://www.fci.be/Nomenclature/Standards/159g06-en.pdf

The English Foxhound is one of the four foxhound breeds of dog. It is a cousin of the American Foxhound. They are scent hounds, bred to hunt foxes by scent.

Description

Appearance

The breed standards' guidelines for showing English Foxhounds requires them to be 20inches-27inchesin (-in) tall at the withers.[1] The skull is thick and the muzzle is long. The legs are muscular, straight-boned, and the paws are rounded, almost cat-like. The English Foxhound comes in any hound colour.[2]

History

The English Foxhound has been bred for over two hundred years, with the stud books dating back before 1800.

During the British Raj, English Foxhounds were exported to India for the purpose of jackal coursing,[3] though due to the comparatively hotter weather, they were rarely long lived.[4] Foxhounds were preferred for this purpose over greyhounds, as the former was not as fast, and could thus provide a longer, more sporting chase.[5]

Studbooks for the English foxhound have been kept since the 18th century.[6]

See also

References

  1. Web site: English Foxhound . Fédération Cynologique Internationale. Thuin, Belgium . 2009-03-26 . 28 March 2015.
  2. Web site: Foxhound Standard . Kennel Club . 25 June 2024.
  3. Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India: their haunts and habits from personal observation with an account of the modes of capturing and taming elephants by George P. Sanderson, published by Asian Educational Services, 2000,
  4. https://archive.org/stream/livinganimalsofw01cornrich#page/n7/mode/2up The living animals of the world; a popular natural history with one thousand illustrations Volume 1: Mammals
  5. A monograph of the canidae by St. George Mivart, F.R.S, published by Alere Flammam. 1890
  6. von Pfetten. Jean Christophe. Baron. Ecovertside. 23 March 2017. 23 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170123081801/http://www.ecovertside.net/features/20-foxhunting-feature-stories/221-a-history-of-the-english-foxhound. dead.