Editing Pharaoh Hound (section)

== Use ==
[[Image:KtF1.jpg|thumb|Pharaoh Hound]]
The Kelb tal-Fenek is usually taken out to hunt at night when there are fewer distractions. Generally, the hunters take their dogs into the countryside and release pairs of a male and a female dog in each compass direction. The dogs then search out their prey using scent. When a rabbit is found the hounds give chase, the small and more agile female in the lead with the male keeping the rabbit from darting too far to the sides.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} At this point the dogs giving chase emit a high pitched bark, attracting the other dogs and the hunters, all of whom come running. By the time the hunters and other dogs arrive the rabbit has almost always gone to ground. The hunters then gather and leash all but one dog, then place nets over all of the likely escape holes of the rabbit.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} Finally the hunter takes a ferret (with a small bell attached) from a round wicker basket, and places it into the last entrance to the rabbit's burrow. The Kelb tal-Fenek can hear the little bell up to 3 metres down under the rocky terrain. When the ferret flushes the rabbit out a hole, one free dog swoops down upon it.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} The use of ferrets is mentioned by Strabo about rabbit-hunting in the Balearic Islands under Roman rule.{{r|owen|page=489|camilleri}}