What a thing to see! While surfing the usual sites I stumbled upon something new, and very interesting. An Austrailian site dedicated to boar hunting dogs. With little concern for conformation and alot for performance this site lists breeders of dogs limited to the Austrailian contenent and her surrounding islands. Two dogs in particular caught my eye one of which I will discuss here. The dog is called a Bully Greyhound. Created in the 1970s by Peter Ayre who crossed English Bull Terriers with racing Greyhounds to produce a swift and tenacious dog capable of amazing speed and determination in the hunt. later would come two single breedings of Pit bull and Airedale terrier (although some lines are void of Airedale blood) giving rise to a larger less leggy animal. The dogs were for a while falling out of favor, with older hunters retiring and the younger generation prefering some of the newer crossbreeds. The Bully Greyhound has now however made a nice resurgance in NT, Queensland, and New South Wales, thanks to the efforts of some dedicated breeders. The amazing thing one will first notice when seeing these dogs is the uncanny resemblance to early European oil paintings of boar hunts. Being a man concerned only with his dogs function. Reconstruction was never the goal of Mr. Ayre. He has inadvertantly managed to perfectly create an accidental relic. so whether you noticed or not Great job!