Old Welsh Grey Sheepdog
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Welsh Greys were shaggy, long-haired dogs, similar in appearance to working strains of the Scottish Bearded Collie or to the ancestors of the Old English Sheepdog,[2] and the breeds probably have a common heritage.[1]
As a working dog
History
All types of Welsh sheepdog declined in numbers from the early 20th century due to the increasing use of the Border Collie for herding. Dogs of the Welsh Grey breed were still found on Welsh hill farms in the upper Towy valley as late as the 1980s, but the breed is likely now extinct.[2]
Specimens of the Welsh Grey are thought to have accompanied Welsh settlers to Patagonia[4] and the Patagonian Sheepdog is in part a descendant from this breed.[5]
References
- 1 2 Hubbard, C. L. Working Dogs of the World, 1947, p.154
- 1 2 Carpenter, B. The Shepherd's Dogge, Fall 1994: see Welsh Sheep Dog Archived 2013-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, The Border Collie Museum
- ↑ Holmes, J. The Farmer's Dog, Random House, 1995, p.61
- 1 2 Davies, Jenkins and Baines (eds) The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales, UWP, 2008, p.220
- ↑ Barrios, Natasha; Fuenzalida, Alvaro; Gómez, Marcelo; Heuser, Consuelo; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Ostrander, Elaine A.; Parker, Heidi G.; González-Lagos, César (2019-12-17). "The Patagonian Sheepdog: Historical Perspective on a Herding Dog in Chile". Diversity. 11 (245).
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