Mary Allen
#4 The most plausible is the assumption that this dog was domesticated by the Hottentot tribes. Among the animals that traveled with the Hottentots were hunting dogs with a ridge on their backs.
#5 The dog was described by the historian George McCoulhill as a terrible creature with a body resembling that of a jackal and hair on its back growing in the opposite direction, but at the same time an animal selflessly devoted to man.
#6 Everything changed in the middle of the 19th century, when a new fashionable hobby appeared among the European nobility – hunting African lions with dogs.
The breeds of the Old World were not suitable for such a dangerous event, so the hunters turned their attention to the native dogs, who already had experience working with giant cats.