Cirneco dell'Etna

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Cirneco dell'Etna
OriginItaly
Traits
Height Males
46–50 cm (18–20 in)[1]
Females
44–48 cm (17–19 in)[1]
Weight Males
10–13 kg (22–29 lb)[1]
Females
8–10 kg (18–22 lb)[1]
Coat short on head, short to semi-long on body
Colour light sand, isabella, light to dark tan
Life span 12–14 years[2]: 33 
Kennel club standards
Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana standard
Fédération Cynologique Internationale standard
Dog (
domestic dog
)

The Cirneco dell'Etna

small game, particularly rabbits.[3][4] As with many working dogs, registration is conditional on successful completion of a working trial.[5]

History

The second part of the name of the breed relates to the area of the

genomic study in 2021 found it to be most closely related to the Kelb tal-Fenek and the Segugio Italiano.[8]
It is often controversially claimed that the Cirneco dell'Etna is an ancient breed.
veterinary surgeon from Adrano on the slopes of Etna, who published an account in Il Cacciatore Italiano in 1932. This was seen by a Sicilian noblewoman, Agata Paternó Castello, who bought some of the dogs and in 1934 started breeding them.[9] The breed was recognised by the Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana in 1939, based on a breed standard drawn up by Giuseppe Solaro of Turin.[9][11] The Cirneco was definitively accepted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale in 1956.[12] It is a rare breed; in the period from 2010 to 2018, new registrations in Italy were between about 100 and 150 per year.[5] Breed registration is conditional on successful completion of a working trial in this case a specific field trial.[5][13]

Further reading

Notes

  1. ^ Italian pronunciation: [tʃirˈneːko delˈlɛtna]; plural Cirnechi [tʃirˈneːki]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Cirneco dell'Etna (in Italian). Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana. Accessed July 2020.
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  3. ^ a b c Cirnèco (in Italian). Vocabolario on line. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2020.
  4. ^ a b FCI-Standard N° 199: Cirneco dell'Etna. Fédération Cynologique Internationale. Accessed July 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d Cirneco dell'Etna (in Italian). Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana. Accessed July 2020.
  6. doi:10.1002/ece3.3842
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  7. ^ Emiliano Lasagna, Simone Ceccobelli, Amparo Martinez Martinez, Hovirag Lancioni, Vincenzo Landi, Mario Cosenza, Anthony Gruppetta, Francesca Maria Sarti, Vincenzo Chiofalo, Carlos San José, Luis Monteagudo Ibanez, Luigi Liotta, George Attard (2019). Genetic variability assessment in different Mediterranean canine breeds using microsatellite markers. Italian Journal of Animal Science. 18 (s1): 108.
  8. doi:10.1080/1828051X.2021.1873076
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  9. ^ a b c Felice Modica (18 February 2018). La vera storia del cirneco, la razza più antica: Riscoperta da una nobildonna straordinaria (in Italian). Il Giornale. Accessed July 2020.
  10. ^ Cirneco dell'Etna (in Italian). Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana. Archived 7 July 2014.
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  12. ^ FCI breeds nomenclature: Cirneco dell'Etna (199). Fédération Cynologique Internationale. Accessed July 2020.
  13. ^ "Sport". Cirneco Dell'Etna Club of America. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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