They're a Portuguese variant of the ubiquitous Podengo/Podenco family, especially created to flush game out of rough brush, either to catch them themselves or run them into the eagerly awaiting jaws of the larger Podenco Grandes.
This is my beloved little horror show, Gypsy, aka "The Velociraptor"
Dobermanns be damned, it is *she* who rules the pack.
When they're outside, she comes in low and strafing, runs Odin to ground and them 'playfully' tries to either hamstring him or deal a killing bite to his neck, from above. :D
Poor Odin was "raised" by her and he very confused about his breed predilections.
Rather than coming up from below and grabbing the under-throat, he has learned the Sighthound "death bite" of hitting from above.
He has become...versatile? LOL
