Origins: Africa The Rhodesian ridgeback likely originated from Khoikhoi dogs native to southern Africa. When European settlers arrived in the 16th century, they bred their own dogs with these ...

Its ancestors can be traced to the ridged hunting dogs of the Khoikhoi people, these were crossed with European dogs by the early colonists of Southern Africa. In the late 19th Century ...

The Khoikhoi people who occupied the Cape Peninsula when the Dutch began trading with the area during the mid 17th century, had a hunting dog which was described as ugly, but noted for its ...