Anyone have experience with Rhodesian Ridgebacks? I saw them on Animal Planet, and they look like they'd be awesome trail dogs, and just awesome dogs all around. They're really healthy, muscular dogs, don't have very many health problems. They were bred from wild dogs in South Africa to hunt lions and they do well in high temperatures.
I'd need to do some more research on them, and I need a house/yard first, but has anyone had one or had experience with em? They're beautiful dogs.