Rhodesian Ridgeback

the african heritage - never forget it

"At no point in the history of the domestication of dogs have they been asked to perform more dangerous tasks under more hazardous natural conditions than they were on the southern African plateau. These ancestors of the modern Ridgeback were tough, tough, tough - or they did not survive. Not only did they have to survive the normal diseases such as distemper and occasional rabies. They had to survive the most varied and deadly array of flora and fauna ever faced by dogs" (HELGESEN - The definitive Rhodesian Ridgeback)