Key facts
- Other names
- Italian Sighthound Piccolo Levriero Italiano
- Origin
- Italy
- Height
- 32 to 38 cm (13 to 15 in)
- Weight
- not over 5 kg (11 lb)
- Colour
- solid black, grey or isabelline
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dog (domestic dog)
The Italian Greyhound or Piccolo Levriero Italiano is an Italian breed of small sighthound. It was bred to hunt hare and rabbit, but is kept mostly as a companion dog. The English-language name used for it by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale is Italian Sighthound.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Italian Greyhound” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.