The Indus Civilization c10.19

c10.19

It is not known whether dogs were used in hunting, but three quite different breeds appear among the model animals; the first with its tail tightly curled over the back and with lop ears, the second with an upright tail and prick ears, and the third with a very short muzzle, almost like that of a bull-dog, but since the hind-quarters are missing from this model, we do not know the shape of the tail. Several roughly modelled clay figures have been found which represent a watch-dog tied to a post, others show this animal wearing a collar. A one-time sport in Sind was the worrying of boars by dogs, and, since this is also depicted on some very early seals from Elam, there are grounds for assuming that the boar was hunted in the same way in the Indus valley; indeed, the short-faced dog already described would have been eminently suitable for this purpose.