Dogs
Polish Greyhound
Other names: Chart Polski (Polish), Polish Greyhound
- Origin
- Poland
- Size
- Giant
- Height · Male
- 70–80 cm
- Height · Female
- 68–75 cm
- Weight · Male
- 33–37 kg
- Weight · Female
- 27–33 kg
- Life expectancy
- 10–12 years
- FCI
- FCI group 10 · 10 · n.º 333
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Temperament
The Polish Greyhound is self-assured, confident, reserved and brave. When hunting he is fast, very skilful and untiring. In action, he reacts quickly and brutally.
History
The presence of the Chart Polski in Poland is attested since the 13th century; this breed goes probably back to Asiatic sighthounds of Saluki type. The Borzoi being unknown before the reign of Iwan the Terrible during the XVIth century, it is impossible, as claimed by the Russian author Sabaniejew, that the Chart Polski would be the result of interbreeding between the Greyhound and the Borzoi. The mention of the Chart Polski in the literature, especially the hunt-literature, is frequent and the iconographic representations are noticeably unvarying. This uniform general appearance in drawings and paintings proves, that, in spite of different interbreeding, the original aspect of the breed has remained unchanged up to the end of the XIXth century.