:Old Welsh Grey Sheepdog
{{Short description|Extinct breed of dog}}
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The Welsh Grey or Old Welsh Grey was a breed of sheepdog native to Wales. It is likely now extinct.
Description
Welsh Greys were shaggy, long-haired dogs, similar in appearance to working strains of the Scottish Bearded Collie or to the ancestors of the Old English Sheepdog, and the breeds probably have a common heritage.Hubbard, C. L. Working Dogs of the World, 1947, p.154
As a working dog
Like the Bearded Collie, the Welsh Grey worked in a "loose-eyed", noisy manner very different from the Border and other collie types, with a distinctive short bark.Holmes, J. The Farmer's Dog, Random House, 1995, p.61 As well as being used by shepherds, the breed was also popular with the drovers who took livestock to England.Davies, Jenkins and Baines (eds) The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales, UWP, 2008, p.220
History
All types of Welsh sheepdog declined in numbers from the early 20th century due to the increasing use of the Border Collie for herding. Dogs of the Welsh Grey breed were still found on Welsh hill farms in the upper Towy valley as late as the 1980s, but the breed is likely now extinct.Carpenter, B. The Shepherd's Dogge, Fall 1994: see [http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/AdelineJones/WelshSheepDog.html Welsh Sheep Dog] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130207072111/http://www.gis.net/~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/AdelineJones/WelshSheepDog.html |date=2013-02-07 }}, The Border Collie Museum
Specimens of the Welsh Grey are thought to have accompanied Welsh settlers to PatagoniaDavies, Jenkins and Baines (eds) The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales, UWP, 2008, p.220 and the Patagonian Sheepdog is in part a descendant from this breed.{{Cite journal |last=Barrios |first=Natasha |last2=Fuenzalida |first2=Alvaro |last3=Gómez |first3=Marcelo |last4=Heuser |first4=Consuelo |last5=Muñoz |first5=Rodrigo |last6=Ostrander |first6=Elaine A. |last7=Parker |first7=Heidi G. |last8=González-Lagos |first8=César |date=2019-12-17 |title=The Patagonian Sheepdog: Historical Perspective on a Herding Dog in Chile |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337974220_The_Patagonian_Sheepdog_Historical_Perspective_on_a_Herding_Dog_in_Chile |journal=Diversity |volume=11 |issue=245}}
References
{{reflist}}{{Dog breeds originating in Wales}}{{Welsh dogs}}
{{Extinct breeds of dog}}