Scottish Deerhound

Hounds & sighthounds · Scotland

About the Scottish Deerhound

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.

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

Type	Hounds & sighthounds
Origin (Wikidata)	Scotland
Map pin	Representative point in Scotland (not an exact location)
Weight	Males: approx. 100 lb (45 kg) Females: approx. 80 lb (36 kg)
Size class	Giant (our grouping, from the weight above)
FCI classification	Group 10 (standard no. 164)
Wikidata	Q37929

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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