Monday, December 30, 2013

Honor Your Canine Pal With Italian Greyhound Checks

By Alan Plastin


Are you crazy about your Italian Greyhound? When you have to leave him at home do you feel guilty? If so then when you carry beautiful Italian Greyhound checks you'll always have a little reminder of him with you, no matter where you go!

Of all the sight hounds, the Italian Greyhound is the smallest and only weighs about 18 pounds. Although he is technically a "toy" breed, he is still larger than most of the other dogs in this category. While small, the Italian Greyhound is still a true genetic greyhound and has a bloodline that goes back to over 2000 years. As part of the Greyhound line, they can run up to 25 miles per hour and have a high stepping and free gait, kind of like that of a horse's.

Italian Greyhounds make terrific companion dogs, as all owners can attest, and they like being around other people. Most are quiet canines and don't like to be rattled too much but they still like playing and being active. Of course, they also like to run!

The breed gets its name from the popularity it enjoyed during the Italian Renaissance. Some mummified dogs that are similar have been discovered in Egypt and images of small Greyhounds have been discovered in Pompeii. Italy. In fact, they might have been the only accepted companion-dog in Pompeii. They were recorded as having been seen around Emperor Nero's court in Rome, too.

It is possible that the breed came from Turkey and Greece as long as 4,000 years ago since art depicting these tiny greyhounds has been found during archaeological surveys there. The breed grew in popularity throughout southern Europe and was later a favorite of the Italians of the sixteenth century. Italian Greyhounds made their way to England in the seventeenth century. Catherine the Great was painted with her Italian Greyhound, Zemire while Giotto, Velazquez, and Pisanello also featured them in their art work.

If your Italian Greyhound is your best comrade then you'll enjoy the eye-catching Italian Greyhound check designs that you can pick from. These checks come with rotating images so that every check you write will differ from the previous, making check writing even more fun.

There are also coordinating accessories that can be purchased at an additional cost with many of the check series. A matching leather checkbook cover and address labels are fun to use and look at and practical as well.

Ordering your checks from your personal bank in the past was probably an annoyance. Not only were the checks they had expensive but they were almost certainly narrow in their selection which meant that you might have left with something you didn't want. However, now when you order online from a reputable company you can save as much as 50% off their cost and have tons of designs on hand to pick from!

Using great looking checks that you're proud to carry has never been simpler. With the various Italian Greyhound series available you'll always have the checks you want to use at affordable prices that you can actually live with.




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