Originally published at: Pre-contact dogs, germs and CTVT | Boing Boing
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Doesn’t this suggest that the tumor spread from, rather than to, native dogs?
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Exactly, CTVT is pre-contact dog curse that is almost classifiable as a whole canine group, but lives on in the dogs that replaced them.
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Did some survive? And can they be bred back?
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Yes, and “theoretically yes in a Jurrasic Park kind’a way?” Some breeds like Carolina Dogs, Alaska Huskies, Alaskan Malamutes, Greenland Dogs, and Chihuahua’s are OG PCD’s to a degree. Others may be lurking in the existing American dog population, whose genetic diversity laying unidentified and diminishing by the day.
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A chi would be great for my small city coop.
Look at that beauty! Never knew about Carolina dogs.
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We are considering a doodle variant in 2023, and I’m going to see if it’s possible to finagle a Jindo-doodle when next in Korea.
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Beautiful. But too big for my building. 20lb limit.
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We’re thinking of the mini side, so that I won’t feel like David Sedaris’s Dad Lou being pulled around by a Great Dane in the TAL episode “In Dog We Trust”.
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I would love a big dog if I lived in a house with a big yard!
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As they say in the old world, “those words are my words!” You, me, same-same! ^____^
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Strangely, the dog (Carolina?) in your picture looks like a dingo, with less reddish fur. Parallel evolution?
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