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Kathewar Dog, Is A Breed of Sighthound From India: Saluki Karnataka Maharashtra Telangana Mudhol

The Mudhol Hound is a breed of sighthound from India that is also known as the Maratha Hound, Pashmi Hound, and Kathewar Dog. There are about 750 families around Mudhol, Karnataka that raise this breed for sale. The Mudhol Hound descends from sighthounds brought from Central Asia and Arabia to western India. Shrimant Rajesaheb Malojirao Ghorpade of Mudhol revived the breed in the early 1900s through selective breeding and introduced them to England. The Indian Army wants to use Mudhol Hounds for surveillance and border protection.

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Kathewar Dog, Is A Breed of Sighthound From India: Saluki Karnataka Maharashtra Telangana Mudhol

The Mudhol Hound is a breed of sighthound from India that is also known as the Maratha Hound, Pashmi Hound, and Kathewar Dog. There are about 750 families around Mudhol, Karnataka that raise this breed for sale. The Mudhol Hound descends from sighthounds brought from Central Asia and Arabia to western India. Shrimant Rajesaheb Malojirao Ghorpade of Mudhol revived the breed in the early 1900s through selective breeding and introduced them to England. The Indian Army wants to use Mudhol Hounds for surveillance and border protection.

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The Mudhol Hound, also known variously as the Maratha Hound, the Pashmi Hound and the

Kathewar Dog, is a breed of sighthound from India

The Kennel Club of India (KCI) and Indian National Kennel Club (INKC) recognize the breed
under different breed names. The KCI registers it as a Caravan Hound while the INKC uses the
name Mudhol Hound.

In 2005 the Mudhol Hound was one of four Indian dog breeds featured on a set of postage
stamps released by the Indian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to
celebrate the country's canine heritage.[5]

About 750 families in and around Mudhol town of Karnataka are raising this breed for marketing
the puppies

The Caravan was introduced to the Deccan Plateau of western India from Central Asia and
Arabia, and can thus be considered a direct descendant of the Saluki or Tāzī. This region covers
parts of the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra, and, to a lesser degree, Telangana. The breed is
popular in and around Mudhol Taluk of Karnataka and thus the breed got the name Mudhol
hound.[7]

Shrimant Rajesaheb Malojirao Ghorpade of Mudhol (1884-1937) of the Mudhol State is credited
with reviving the Mudhol hound. He noticed local tribal people called Bedar (Fearless); also
called Berad (not - crying) using these hounds for hunting.[6] Using selective breeding, he was
able to restore the royal Mudhol hound. On a visit to England in the early 1900s, the Maharaja of
Mudhol State presented King George V a pair of hounds, which popularized the Mudhol hound
breed.[8][9]

The Indian Army has expressed its desire to use the Mudhol sight hound for surveillance and
border protection duties. It has obtained six Mudhol dogs for testing at the Army's Remount
Veterinary Corps at Meerut. The dogs were bred after selection, at the Canine Research and
Information Centre in Thimmapur near Mudhol in Bagalkot district of Karnataka. The CRIC is a
unit of the Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar

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