Italian Greyhound

Hounds & sighthounds · Italy

About the Italian Greyhound

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.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Italian Greyhound” (lead section), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type	Hounds & sighthounds
Origin (Wikidata)	Italy
Map pin	Representative point in Italy (not an exact location)
Height	32–38 cm (13–15 in)
Weight	up to 5 kg (11 lb)
Size class	Small (our grouping, from the weight above)
Wikidata	Q38503

Height and weight as given in the infobox of the Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0), with unit conversions added; we omit figures we cannot read reliably.

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