Xarnego Valenciano
| Other names | Xarnego Valenciano Gos coniller Podenco Valencíano |
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| Origin | Valencian Community, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight | Male | around 20 kg. | |
| Female | around 18 kg. | ||
| Height | Male | 55 to 61 cm. | |
| Female | 50-57 cm. | ||
| Coat | three varieties: straight hair, hard hair and sedeño hair | ||
The Xarnego or Xarnego Valenciano is a hound breed of dog originating in Valencian Community, Spain. This breed is known by several names, according to the different areas of the Valencian geography: Xarnego, Xarnego Valenciano, Gos coniller, Podenco Valencíano.
This breed has three types of hair, smooth, hard and "sedeño", being the only type of Iberian podencos/pondengos having the latter type of hair also transmitted, as with some other autochthonous breed, of randomly way among litters that born of straight hair. The sedeño variety of this breed is known as "Polserut", local word for a particular type of coat in this breed, though long, is substantially different in layout and texture.
The Xarnego is possibly the oldest of the Peninsular podencos/podengos dogs. Representative of an original kind and generous lender of its blood. Described by many canine and hunting experts authors around the Mediterranean area. For the historical background and the morphological type with which the breed has come down to today, the Xarnego represents the genuine type of hound that with more integrity in its structure has kept safe from the stakes of other exogenous influences. This is thanks to the reason for its existence: its full functional capability through the centuries in the geographical area of its own. Although being the original trunk recognized of the hound type, has not been recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale.
The first historical references and appear in the engravings and paintings of the shelters and caves of the Spanish Levante, the illustrations are numerous as Juan de Dios Olías Rubio explains in his book El Perro de los Dioses, thorough study of the origin of the Iberian podencos/podengos, and in this research work are:
On page 91 appears the fig.25 entitled Canid of the Cave of la Araña (Valencia), possibly a fox. On page 96 appears the fig.26 entitled Some wolves of the Barranc de la Palla (Alicante). On page 97 starts a chapter entitled Arte Levantino in which the references, quotes, photos and drawings of the Iberian representations of Iberian podencos predecessors of the Xarnego are constant from the Rock art to the Iberian period.
In the world of Roman art was found riddled with pictorial representations on their famous mosaics representing hound-type dogs, some already very similar of what it would understand as the Xarnego close on morphological type, some are in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. The tombstones of the tomb of the 4th century found in Tolfa, near the Italian capital.
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