Monday, February 3, 2014

Honor Your Canine Pal With Italian Greyhound Checks

By Alan Plastin


Do you love your Italian Greyhound? Do you feel bad when you have to leave him behind? Now you'll always have a reminder of him right in your checkbook when you carry beautiful Italian Greyhound checks!

The Italian Greyhound is the tiniest of all the sight hounds and weighs less than twenty pounds. Even though he is in theory a "toy" breed, he is still bigger than most of the other dogs in this group. Still, although he's small, the Italian Greyhound is a true genetic greyhound and has a bloodline is more than 2,000 years old. As a Greyhound, he can run up to 25 miles per hour and has a high stepping and free way of walking, kind of like a horse's gait.

As anyone who owns an Italian Greyhound knows, they are fantastic companion dogs and they enjoy being around people. Italian Greyhounds prefer calmness but they also like being active and running and playing. As a Greyhound, they also love running.

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 likely that the variety came from Turkey and Greece as long as 4,000 years ago given that art showing these tiny greyhounds has been found during archaeological surveys in these areas. They grew in esteem all through southern Europe and were later a much loved pet of the Italians in the sixteenth century. Italian Greyhounds traveled to England in the seventeenth century. Catherine the Great was shown with her Italian Greyhound, Zemire while Giotto, Velazquez, and Pisanello also showcased them in their art work.

If you love your Italian Greyhound then you'll love the beautiful Italian Greyhound checks that are on hand to choose from. These usually come with rotating images so that each check you write will be different from the one before it.

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!

It has never been easier to order and carry the checks you want. Now, you'll always have a reminder of your Italian Greyhound and you don't have to worry about the checks costing an arm and a leg!




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