Alice White
#7 A pioneer in this business was a certain Cornelis Van Royen, who bought Hottentot dogs from a hunter from Southern Rhodesia (formerly Southern Zambezi) and began to breed the ideal lion beater.
#8 By the way, initially the animals were not called Ridgebacks, but Van Royen’s dogs, and this praise of the breeder’s personality continued until the beginning of the 20th century.
#9 In 1922, Francis Richard Barnes initiated the creation of a separate standard for the breed, according to which all dogs with a comb on their backs were renamed Rhodesian Ridgebacks.
