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contents o5. Activity with your one Vacation Distination The BEST 3 good places to vacation with your dog in United States
o7. Relaxation for your one Massage Points
When dogs petting is combined witha knowledge based message it can also be very useful for your dogs health and well-being!
11. question about your one Dog Training Tips
These dog training tips, along with patience, will help teach a dog to stop biting and avoid some potentially horrible consequences down the road.
12. a story of the one A HERO DOG -BALTO-
The true story about a famous dog sled relay which brought initial relief to the citizens.
22. plus one Where Is One From?
Where did dogs come from? How did dogs become mankind’s best friend?
show your only one! John, NY
Betty, AK
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Moana, HI
Chip & Dale, NY
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Vacation Distinations
The BEST 3 good places to vacation with your dog in United States like people, love to get away from it all! If you’re going on a Dtheogs, back packing trip with your dog, plan ahead. Taking a dog out on trail without some type of fitness conditioning can be dangerous
Boredom and excess energy are two common reasons for behavior problems in dsogs.This makes sense because they’re meant to lead active lives. Wild dogs spend about 80% of their waking hours hunting and scavenging for food.They need be active for the health.
to your dog’s health. Fitness doesn’t come overnight, so start the process well before your trip.
Myrtle Beach, SC Myrtle Beach Zipline Adventures is the most heart pounding and adrenaline pumping attraction to ever hit Myrtle Beach.
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Gatlinburg, TN, US provides dog boarding, daycare and dog grooming services to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and surrounding areas.
Key West, FL, US Key West can be a warm and sunny vacation not just for people but for pets as well.
“A Dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” -Josh Billings-
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No matter where you are going, “Plus One” helps you find the best places to stay, play and eat with your dog.The places have pet hotals, dog parks and attractions, pet restaurants, pet services, and dog events there.You can have a great experiences there with your precious dog!
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Relaxation Relaxation for for
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massage POINTS
When dogs petting is combined with a knowledge based massage it can also be very useful for your dog´s health and well-being! BACK Go from between the shoulders and slowly travel down to the back. Use small circular motions with your fingers on either side of the spine.
TAIL Squeeze the tail–don’t pull, but squeeze, gently and firmly, from base to tip.
HEAD With light pressure and small, circular strokes go from behind the ears, along the cheeks and under the chin, over the nose and between the eyes. Massage the ears by rubbing the ears between your thumb and forefinger.
FRONT LEGS AND ELBOWS Helps your dog to coop with infeccions and allergies. Wrap your fingers around each lower legs and squeeze gently.
PAWS Paws are a very important massage point because they are connected with most of the dog’s body. Give the paws a prolonged and gentle squeeze, and massage each toe, if your dog is comfortable with having his or her feet handled.
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fact canine massage has plenty of benefits. When you In massage your dog regularly that will help you to build up your relationship, by increasing the dogs trust and self-confidence. Specially for puppies, massage canhelp with socialization by making the puppy more relaxed and confident. Massage can also help with hyperactivity cases since, like in the humans, massage will help to reduce the dogs anxiety,stress and eventual emotional traumas. With a good massage your 4 paws friend will also feel energized, more alert and concentrated. One of the reasons why canine massage supports a successful training.
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The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.
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Question about your
Dog training tips
These dog training tips, along with patience, will help teach a dog to stop biting and avoid some potentially horrible consequences down the road.
dog bite due to your negligence can cause you to be sued and lose everything you own. OlutelyneIt isvital not a problem that you can take lightly when you own a dog. For this reason, it is absoto follow some rules to prevent it. Here are some dog training tips to consider.
Use rewards and training regularly Using positive reinforcement is very important if your dog is biting or nibbling when they should not be. Rewarding the dog when they play with their toy instead of your finger is an example. Dogs are not going to respond to aggressive techniques except with a return of aggression themselves. Use positive reinforcement when they get it right and they will want to repeat that behavior again and again.
Learn about your individual breed Some breeds are more prone to biting than others and they all have a bit of individuality. Learn what behaviors and situations are triggers for your specific dog breed. This makes it easier to tailor your training and behavior to what they need to learn properly.
Avoid wrestling and aggression games Tug of War is great fun with your dog but it can breed aggression. Avoid the types of games where the dog is in direct competition with the human. Instead, focus on fun games that allow you to be in harmony. Dogs respond to what we put out there and that goes both ways.
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Educate your family Dog training tips aren’t just about the dog, they’re about everyone who interacts with the dog as well. Education is important for each family member and you should take the time to make sure they know biting triggers. Kids in particular need to be careful around a (affiliate link) dog’s food bowl and other things they consider as theirs. This can be controlled by teaching your youngsters the dos and donts around your dog and their particular breed.
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Nip the behavior in the bud while young Puppies are naturally going to mouth things when they start growing. It is a natural behavior and you have to be careful not to make them think it is not. Still, you don’t want a dog nipping and biting from a young age at inappropriate times. Chewing on and playing with their dog toy is not the same thing as chewing on your finger.
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BALTO -a hero dogThe true story about a famous dog sled relay which brought initial relief to the citizens.
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About BALTO NAME
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Named after Samuel Johannesen Balto, a famous Norwegian “Sami” (an Arctic herding people who live in northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia)
1919 (exact date unknown. There are no historical records which conclusively prove this which are available to the public.) Died on March 14, 1933
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Jet black Siberian husky and of the Chukchi Inuit Siberian tribe’s stock, with white “socks”, “bib”, and partial white markings on belly and tip of the muzzle, which advanced with age (including white markings around the eyes when he was old). Eyes were dark brown. Male.
Norwegian Leonhard Seppala (pronounced LEH-nerd SEP-luh), a breeder and racer of Siberian dogs from the Chukchi Inuit stock of Siberia. He also trained dogs and mushers. Was employed by Norwegian Jafet Lindeberg’s (name pronounced “YAH-feht LIN-deh-berg”) Pioneer Gold Mining Company (Jafet Lindeberg was one of the “Three Lucky Swedes” who discovered gold at Anvil Creek in 1898, near Nome).
Partially deaf and blind, and suffering from canine arthritis in his rear legs, Balto was being cared for by the team’s keeper (in the Cleveland Brookside Zoo), “Captain” Curley Wilson. There were concerns about his failing health in 1933, until a kindly veterinarian, Dr. R.R. Powell (a member and trustee of the Cleveland, Ohio Balto Committee), offered to ease Balto’s suffering. Wilson accepted for the zoo, and carefully moved Balto over to Dr. Powell’s animal hospital. Powell insisted on caring for Balto free of charge, stating it was an honor to care for him in his last hours. On Tuesday, March 14th, 1933, he injected Balto with a drug to “put him to sleep”. Balto died at 2:15 P.M., under the loving care of Dr. Powell and Curley Wilson. His body was stuffed and mounted by a staff taxidermist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where it stands (with Balto’s original lead) to this day.
TEAM Balt was a sled dog who helped deliver serum to a diphtheria-stricken Nome, Alaska, in 1925, enjoyed short-lived fame and then was sold to a vaudeville show. A Cleveland businessman organized a successful fund-raising campaign to buy him, and Balto lived out his life at the Brookside Zoo, now the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. His journey to Nome was the inspiration behind Alaska’s annual Iditarod dog sled race.
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or several decades, the visitors of Central Park, one of the largest parks in New York , can admire a bronze statue, the only one in the city to the effigy of a dog. It represents Balto, this husky which made the pride of the American nation in the middle of the Twenties... The epidemic broke out in nome (a little town with only 1500 inhabitants) on Jan. 19th 1925, and the local hospital had run out of antitoxin (the last supply had arrived in 1918). The first child who got ill was a five years old Inuit boy, at Holy Cross; doctor Curts Welch (nome’s only doctor) said it was only tonsillitis, since none of his relatives had similar symptoms. The child died the morning after, and since then many others got ill. The mother of the Inuit boy didn’t let the doctor exaxmine the corpse for an autopsy, which made it a lot harder to find out what was happening.
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The first official case of diphteria was recorded on Jan 20th 1925 on a boy called Bill Barnett. The day after a 7 years old girl got ill (Bessie Stanley) who died the next day, and so on. At this point, after a concil, Nome was quarantined and a million doses of vaccine were ordered. The closest supply (300,000 units in total) was located in Anchorage, the capital of Alaska, 1,500 miles away from Nome. Planes couldn’t take off due to the snow storm and the dock was blocked by the ice, so all the could do was to ship the cargo to Nenana, 674 miles away from Nome.
Unlike the cartoon says, it wasn’t one team only who brough the vaccine from Nenana to Nome, but a series of 19 different teams. The first one was led by Bill “Wild” Shannon who arrived to Tolovana for a total of 52 miles, where Edgar Kalland with a fresh squad took the vaccine and brouth it to the next man, Manley, who took it for 31 miles. The others were: Green (28 miles to Lake Fish), Johnny Folger (26 miles), Sam Joseph (34 miles), Titus Nikotai (24 miles), Dave Corning (30 miles), Hewnry Pitka (30 miles), McCarty (28 miles), Edgar Nollnerr (24 miles), George Noller (30 miles), he was Edgar’s brother), Tommy Patsy (36 miles), the native Koyokuk (40 miles), Victor Anagik (34 miles), Myles Gonagnan (40 miles). After this it was Leonard Seppala’s turn, the owner of Balto and best musher of Alaska with his lead dog Togo, the fastest dog in the whole state. He led his team for 91 miles across the dangerous Norton valley, where the ice was very thin. Anyways, the next mushers were Charlie Olson (25 miles) and finally Gunnar Kaasen, who entered nome after 53 miles with another Seppala’s dog: Balto, on Feb 2nd 1925.
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Balto: Jet black Siberian husky
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distance covered by the first serum Twithheruntwenty (route shown above) was 674 miles, mushers participating. When the serum reached Dr. Welch in Nome, it was frozen solid, but because the doctor who sent the antitoxin from Anchorage used rubber stoppers to cap the vials they didn’t break, and the serum was still usable. The second serum run covered approximately the same distance in the same time, again with many Native mushers participating and, this time, one woman. Many Natives from the second run never received official credit or recognition.
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Became a HERO -BALTO-
The Balto satue Central Park, NY
saved a lot of people’s lives, so he b alto became a hero. In the central park, New York City, there is a bronze BALTO statue for thankful to him. Also, Balto became an animated film star and showed how he saved people. The film follows such films as An American Tail or Land Before Time from the same studio, which share common points with the Disney animated films, and were released during the golden age of traditional western animation. The story of Balto deals with wolves and dog sledding, and is based on true facts that happened in 1925 in Nome, Alaska, where diphteria, a fatal disease, occured. Finish line Two low-budget sequels to Balto have been released to date, being direct-to-video sequels unlike the original. This site aims to give the growing Balto fan community everything to share their passion!
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Released in 1995 in the USA, and mid-1996 in Europe, the movie didn’t attract the crowd and didn’t encounter the deserved success. That’s the reason it is not much known compared to Disney or even Dreamworks movies, and yet...Based on real facts, this cartoon relate the story of Balto, a brave sled dog, who brought back an antidiphtheria serum in order to save children, in Alaska (1925).
Many famous people have taken part in it, starting with Spielberg of course, as an executive producer (besides, we can even see a wink to “ET” in Balto), Simon Wells as the director/producer, and James Horner as the soundtrack composer (“ Titanic “, “ Braveheart “, “ Alien “...and all the other Amblimation movies) Nowadays, Amblimation has disappeared, in fact just after the release of this film, and the studios had been retaken with the help of an old Disney director for the conception of another animated movie, “The Prince of Egypt”. And so was born Dreamworks... Balto was not destined to be a star in the breeding shed since he was neutered at a young age, hence he was relegated to being neglected on the vaudeville circuit with his team. When Kaasen wished to return home to Alaska, his dogs were sold to the highest bidder by the company who sponsored his tour. The dogs ended up chained in a small area in a novelty museum and freak show in Los Angeles.
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While visiting Los Angeles, George Kimble, a former prize fighter turned businessman from Cleveland, was shocked to discover the dogs were unhealthy and badly treated. Mr. Kimble worked together with the newspaper, The Plain Dealer, to bring Balto and his team to Cleveland, Ohio. On March 19, 1927, Balto and six companions were brought to Cleveland and given a hero’s welcome in a triumphant parade. The dogs were then taken to the Brookside Zoo (now the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo). After Balto’s death in 1933, his remains were mounted by a taxidermist, and donated to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.[5] In 1965 Carl Barks introduced a hero dog named “Barko” as a character in an Uncle Scrooge comic book, North of the Yukon, as an homage to Balto. In 1998 the Alaska Legislature passed HJR 62- ‘Bring Back Balto’ resolution. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History declined to return Balto; however, in October 1998, Balto left for a five-month stay at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art which drew record crowds.
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right. -Barbara Kingsolver-
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Where is
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Where did dogs come from? How dogs become best partner of people? Long before humans had evolved, dogs had already begun living in packs, communicating vocally, scavenging, and living in proximity to large cats, hyenas, bears, and other primates, beginning to develop the behavioral traits that they would need in order to live among humans. When and why did dogs begin living in highly organized packs, structured much like a human family? Like other members of the carnivore order, including cats, dogs appear to have descended from the tree-dwelling insectivore Miacis (at right) who lived from about 65 million years ago, in the time of the last dinosaurs, until approximately 50 million years ago, in the Eocene epoch. The first recognizable dogs, however, were ground-dwelling meat-eaters, who lived about 40 million years ago, and appear to have had adaptations for digging. They probably dug to find their prey. Some, like Cynodictus, who lived around 30 million years ago, looked and probably behaved much like modern dogs. Since most burrowing animals make holes with more than one way in and out, in order to escape from predators, Cynodictus and other early dogs had to learn to hunt in pairs or small packs, so that one could block each way that the prey could escape.
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The first dogs probably also used their digging skill to make or enlarge burrows of their own, for raising their litters–much as wild and feral dogs still do. Probably the nursing mother was more successful in raising her young if she had a mate and other family members who could bring food back to her and the puppies. Otherwise she would have to leave them unprotected while she went hunting. Dogs became scavengers about 26 million years ago, when the first large cats appeared, such as sabre-toothed tigers. Early dogs either hunted small prey, or hunted in packs. Small prey required a lot of energy to catch, and they had to hunt a lot to get enough food. Hunting large prey, even in packs, could be very dangerous. Scavenging the leftovers from large cats’ kills was relatively safe–and the big cats often left more food behind on a carcass than dogs could get in days of hunting small prey. Could dogs have evolved the same kind of symbiotic relationship with other primates, including human ancestors, that they have with humans? Dogs probably did have a semi-symbiotic relationship with other early humanoids, such as Australopithicus Afrensis, better known as “Lucy.” Wild canines still have semi-symbiotic relationships with other primates in some habitats.
For example, jackals and baboons often co-exist in the same habitat, and may help each other to find food — but since both jackals and baboons are scavengers, who hunt only small prey, their helping relationship usually has more to do with alerting each other to danger from large predators than with helping each other to actually hunt or gather. The fully symbiotic relationship that modern domestic dogs have with humans could only have developed after humans became large enough and skillful enough to hunt larger prey than dogs could safely hunt for themselves in packs. Even then, humans did not accept the presence of canines large enough to prey upon human children. Full-sized wolves, for example, have never been well-accepted near human settlements. Only dogs small enough to be no real threat to any but the smallest and weakest humans were likely to have been welcome around early human campsites. The dire wolf, found in the La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, California, lived from about 10 million years ago until as recently as 20,000 years ago.
The dire wolf is an example of a large, fierce relative of modern dogs who was primarily a hunter, not a scavenger, and was large enough to have been very dangerous to any early humans who might have met one. Accordingly, dire wolves were probably never among the direct ancestors of modern dogs. Modern North American and European wild wolves tend to live in northern regions, or in high mountains, and are among the largest canines, because they have to have large body mass in order to endure the cold of their habitat. They also tend to be predators more than scavengers, because they need to eat a great deal of large prey such as elk, moose, and caribou in order to maintain their size. However, their scattered relatives who live in warm places such as Afghanistan, India, and North Africa are much smaller — near the size of coyotes and jackals. Genetic study has revealed that modern dogs and wolves are so closely related that they should be considered just variations within a single species. The major ancestors of our domestic dogs were probably some of these smaller southern wolves, whom early humans met as they migrated north, out of our place of origin in east Africa.
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How did dogs become mankind’s best friend? How dogs become best partner of people?
The traditional belief is that wolves or wolf-like common ancestors of both dogs and wolves were domesticated only once, about 18,000 years ago, probably in southwestern Eurasia, and then migrated with humans all around the world. The earliest archaeological site where dogs were found to have been clearly domesticated was a city in southwestern Iraq, which flourished about 12,000 years ago–but dogs are believed to have been domesticated long before that particular city was built. Evolutionary biologist John Allman believes from a variety of scientific evidence that Homo sapiens began hunting cooperatively with wolves as long as 135,000 years ago, and that this partnership gave Homo sapiens an insurmountable evolutionary advantage over Neanderthals and Homo erectus.
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In 1997 DNA testing of 67 dog breeds and 162 wolves taken from four continents suggested that dogs may have begun diverging genetically from wolves as long ago as 60,000 to 100,000 years. There is also disputed evidence in the form of cave paintings found in Europe and petroglyphs found in Australia that humans may have hunted with the help of wolf-like dogs as long as 50,000 years ago. By 18,000 years ago, wolves and smaller canines closely related to wolves had already been widely distributed around the world for millions of years. Dogs were probably domesticated and redomesticated many times, and there was probably a lot of mingling between the first domesticated dogs and wild canines.
It is possible that domesticated dogs could have come to each place with immigrants from southwestern Eurasia. But the dogs of the immigrants–or pariah dogs who merely followed them. They must have often cross-bred with the wolves and wolf-like wild dogs they met along the way. These wolves and wild dogs had already evolved regional adaptations, which they passed into the domesticated dog population. Wolves and other possible domestic dog ancestors in cold climates became larger, with thicker coats, more body mass to keep them warm, and an almost all-meat diet. We see these traits in today’s northern breeds of domestic dog, such as the husky, the Malamute, and the Samoyed. Jackals, coyotes, and other possible domestic dog ancestors living in hot climates meanwhile became smaller, with less body surface from which to lose moisture, short coats, and a diet which during the summer and fall months may consist of up to 90% fruit. These traits are found in southern breeds of domestic dog.
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As domesticated dogs and pariah dogs following nomadic humans interbred with the wolves and wolf-like wild dogs they met, they combined the most adaptive traits common to the canines in their new locations with the traits they had already acquired where there ancestors had been. Because human migration seems to have proceeded rapidly, domestic dog genetic diversification did, too. From the earliest record of domestic dogs existing, there were already a variety of highly differentiated breed types, unique to the various places they were found, yet interacting with people in very similar ways. Probably one of the first places that dogs were domesticated was in northern Africa, where early humans moving north into Eurasia met small wolves. These small wolves had followed herds of elephants, rhinos, cameloids, and early ungulates such as elk and horses, along with the big cats who preyed upon them, on their migration into Africa. By the Middle Ages, in Europe, the process of dog domestication was for all practical purposes complete. Because wolves were hunted, and dogs were commonly used to hunt them, as well as to protect herds of sheep and cattle, there was enmity between wild and domestic canines which probably prevented interbreeding.
The origins of the Peruvian Inca orchid dog are disputed. Some experts believe it is descended from Asian dogs brought to the Americas about 12,000 years ago. Others believe it has more recent origins in Africa. The uncertainty seems to be associated with the difficulty of linking the ancestry of the Peruvian Inca orchid dog to other primitive domesticated dogs. Another explanation for the origin of this dog, however, may be that it results from a separate domestication, perhaps first occurring in the Americas. Another primitive breed, sharing some characteristics with the Indian Plains Wolf (Canis lupus pallipes), the Mexican hairless became differentiated from other breeds in the Americas, apparently while living with humans in hot climates, but the details are quite unclear. That it emerged as a unique breed seems to indicate either centuries of intentional breeding to produce hairlessness, or that it lived for a long time with an isolated tribe, whose dogs had little opportunity to interbreed with other canines, either wild or domestic.
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The New Guinea singing dog was discovered in 1956. Examples were brought to the U.S. in 1957. The New Guinea singing dog can climb trees, unlike any other wild canines except grey foxes, and makes an odd “singing� sound, different from the barks and howls of other canines. It is believed to be most closely related to the Australian dingo, although the dingo is three times as large. When first found, and for many years afterward, the New Guinea singing dog was believed to be a feral descendant of dogs brought by Polynesian seafarers about 6,000 years ago. Now some experts believe the New Guinea singing dog is actually an ancient canine subspecies, which may have contributed to the genetic mix found in modern domesticated dogs, but may never have been domesticated itself. The yellow dog whose mummified remains were found in Crypt Cave, Nevada, probably lived about 6,360 years ago. We know the dog was yellow because hairs have survived the centuries.
We know the yellow dog was a pet, and was valued as a member of a human family because he was carefully buried with flowers in a woven mat, in a place where human remains were also buried with ceremonial care. We know the yellow dog was a pet, and not just a working dog, because at some point early in his or her life, the yellow dog suffered a badly fractured leg, and afterward would have been unable to run fast, and therefore would not have been of much help with hunting. Apparently the yellow dog was still fed by the humans with whom he lived, and lived for at least three or four years after the injury. The remains of many other ancient dogs have been found near human burial sites in North America, but the remains of the yellow dog of Crypt Cave are among the best-preserved. The Kentucky shell heap dog and the Tahl-tan bear dog, found among Native Americans in western and central Canada, are only known from bones and stories.
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The Kentucky shell heap dog disappeared from Kentucky with the Mound-Builder culture centuries before European settlement. The Tahl-tan bear dog persisted into recent times, but probably mixed and mingled so much with other domesticated dogs during the past 300 years that even though it may have many descendants, it can no longer be distinguished as a separate breed. Wolf-like dingos appear to have been brought to Australia by aboriginal immigrants about 4,000 years ago, who probably used their ancestors as hunting dogs. Some early dingos may have been taken back to the Asian mainland, as there is a parasite found only in marsupials native to Australia and some Asian wild dogs. Dingos gradually moved away from human settlements and became wild dogs. Within 500 years they inhabited all parts of Australia. They are still of the same species as domestic dogs and wolves, and are sometimes redomesticated.
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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. -Roger Caras-
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