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English Wolf-Hound

English Wolf-Hound, by Paulus Potter circa 1652

   By the end of the sixteenth century the wolf was extinct in England and these tall, leggy dogs followed the English wolf into oblivion.  All was not entirely lost, however, as many individuals from the kennels at Flixton, Stackston and Folkstone found their way into Coursing Greyhound pedigrees (Plummer 1995).
   As some of these dogs were kennelled in Yorkshire, and as they would always have been hunted in conjunction with various scent hounds, it's at least possible (however improbable) that the 'northern' sighthound used to give the emergent seventeenth century foxhound greater speed could have been dogs of this breeding: a vestigial population maybe.

The development of the dog, D. Brian Plummer, 1995.
The Boydell Press.

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