The Italian Greyhound is affectionate, cheerful and intelligent. Avoid rowdy dogs and children when housing the Italian Greyhound. The Italian Greyhound is often timid around strangers. When properly introduced to visitors the Italian Greyhound warms up quickly. The Italian Greyhound has a single coat that is fine and lies flat.
As you might guess grooming requirements of the Italian Greyhound are quite minimal.
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[/caption]The Italian Greyhound is a charming little dog of grace and beauty. The Italian Greyhound comes in colors of all shades of fawn, mouse, white and red. So that even as far back as those days the Italian Greyhounds were of a variety of colors.
As with most of the toy breeds we find that they started out much larger in size, the original Italian Greyhound weighed somewhere around 14 pounds.
In appearance the Italian Greyhound of today should resemble the original version just in miniature size. The Italian Greyhound is gentle and affectionate and not quite a delicate as his fragile form suggests. In cold weather, you need to keep your Italian Greyhound in the house. To keep your Italian Greyhound in good physical shape he requires a good deal of exercise. Take care not to over feed your Italian Greyhound. The Italian Greyhound must never be allowed to become "fat," in order to retain their beautiful lines and graceful form.
The general appearance of an Italian Greyhound is that of ideal elegance and grace of shape, symmetry and action. The Italian Greyhound has a tail that is rather long, fine with low carriage. One of the most prized colors of the Italian Greyhound is the golden fawn color, but he comes in all shades of fawn, red, mouse, blue, cream and white, blacks, and brindles.
