Key facts
- Origin
- Scotland
- Height
- Males
- Weight
- Males
- Coat
- wiry
- Colour
- blue-grey, grey, brindle, yellow, sandy-red or red fawns with black points; white on chest, toes and tip of tail is permissible
via Wikipedia infobox
~10 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Dog (domestic dog)
The Scottish Deerhound, or simply the Deerhound, is a breed of large sighthound, once bred to hunt the red deer by coursing. In outward appearance it is similar to the Greyhound, but larger and more heavily boned, with a rough coat.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scottish Deerhound” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.