The Italian Greyhound or Italian Sighthound is an Italian breed of small sighthound. It was bred to hunt hare and rabbit, but is kept mostly as a companion dog.
Italian Greyhound
Marble statue believed to represent dogs of this type, second century AD, discovered at Lanuvio in 1774, now in the Vatican Museums
Engraving showing two prize-winning Italian Greyhounds in the United Kingdom, from John Henry Walsh, The Dog in Health and Disease, 1859
The coat is short
Sighthounds are a type of hound dog that hunts primarily by sight and speed, unlike scent hounds, which rely on scent and endurance.
A Whippet: characteristic long legs, deep chest, and narrow waist of a sighthound
The dolichocephalic head proportions of a typical sighthound
A Saluki