The breed’s history dates back to the 16th century when the first Europeans explored the interior on the Cape of Good Hope.
Here they discovered the Hottentot tribes living with a semi-domesticated dog that had hair along his spine — growing backward. This is what we now refer to as the “ridge.”
The Rhodesian ridgeback was bred by the Boer farmers to meet their needs for a hunting dog in the wilds of Africa.
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