[blam]

I posted this article to FR, The Dixie Dingo , over thirteen years ago.(Time for an update)

Thanks to FReeper vigilantcitizen for this current article.

- Roll Tide -

[blam]

It was just yesterday that I updated my FR page and included a picture of my current crop of dogs. (Click on my name to see) The top picture is my new crew and the bottom is the crew that I had when I joined FR...sadly, they have all passed on.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.

[goldstategop]

Doggie Ping!

Many vets are morons... they don’t know a purebred dog when they see one.

My German Shepherd always gets mistaken for a mix. She’s solid black.

Getting a purebred Carolina Dog from an animal shelter isn’t that unusual especially if uninformed employees lazily classify a rare breed dog as a “mix.”

Purebred dogs aren’t mutts or mongrels - period.

[Ditter]

Interesting articles, thank you. We also have 4 dogs, one is a Black Mouth Cur, the other 3 are JRT’s. I know nothing about the BMC except that are not an AKC recognized breed. Ours comes from a family of hard working cattle dogs but Cate has never worked a day in her life. She is a great watch dog and companion and she is always close to us in the house.

[BwanaNdege]

Most of the dogs kept by the semi-nomadic pastoral tribes in East Africa (Pokot, Turkana, Karamajong, Sanburu, Maasai) look just like very hungry, skinny versions of these Dixie Dingos.

Funny thing is, I never saw any that bore any resemblance to the African Wild Dog or jackals or the various African foxes.

[Tennessee Conservative]

They look a lot like my girls except for the ears. The Carolina dog's ears stand up and my girls ears lay down. My girls are half Black Mouth Yellow Mountain Cur, another popular dog in Dixie. They are excellent hunters.

[puppypusher]

My dog is a Border Collie/Cattle dog mix and she is a beauty.She’s mostly black with Merle on her front legs and a grey patch that runs from her tummy up to be neck.She also has a white tip on her tail.

We rescued her from Tennessee when she was a puppy.

This dog can go out and walk for miles and still want to play upon getting home.

Talk about the Energizer Bunny.She has him beat by a country mile.

[iontheball]

My daughter adopted a stray caught in New Orleans at the time of hurricane Katrina that has some of the attributes of the Carolina dog. She is a light brown/white hair mix , with a foxy, lighter frame than the Carolinas. She has the same tail size and mannerisms. She obviously had to fight to survive in her past because she loves the outdoors and to hunt. She is fast as lightning as a fox, having stalked and caught squirrels and cottontails, but she is the sweetest dog with kids.

[Varda]

Fun articles, thanks for posting Blam.

“This dog’s ancient bloodlines were never altered by humans.”

That’s taking it a bit far. I think the genetic studies show mixing (have nuclear DNA studies been done?) but with very distinct mtDNA in some individuals.

I’m not surprized people are turning them into purebreds, preserving the ancient type is a good thing.

[Salamander]

I love Paleo-dogs ping!

[bert]

My neighbor had one of these dogs....... dead ringer for the Dingo.

She traded it or got rid of it for a Lab mixed breed because it is larger. She lives alone and fears an intuder

[mabarker1]

http://www.freerepublic.com/~mabarker1/

[Varda]

For anyone that wants to read about a recent genetic study on American dogs, it's an open source article -

Pre-Columbian origins of Native American dog breeds, with only limited replacement by European dogs, confirmed by mtDNA analysis

[The Sons of Liberty]

Dogs are much more loyal and likeable than most humans and nearly all yankees, so a Southern dog is top of the heap.

[blam]

The Dixie Dingo picture that was on the front page of Science News magazine in 2001:

[afraidfortherepublic]

I really enjoyed this article and sent it on to my son who works at the Savannah River Installation (cooped up in one of those offices). He should get out on the grounds and look for a dog.

[matthew fuller]

For later reference. Very interesting, thanks for posting.

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[OHelix]

Wow. I thought I had a mutt.

Two years ago I adopted a yellow dog with a curved tail from a vet in Gastonia, NC whose owner had passed and the family had abandoned it at the vet.

She escaped euthanasia twice before I ended up with her. She was adopted and returned twice before I got her.

I was told and believed she was a husky mix, maybe some shepherd. Did some googling after reading this article and she is definately one of these primative dogs. Explains a lot.

Wonderful pet. She loves the farm. Great with kids.

Remarkably obedient for a dog I did not train from a pup.

She puts forth extreme effort to communicate TO me, more than any other dog I have ever had. I don’t often know what she is trying to tell me but she earnestly tries.

[Rebelbase]

Thanks for posting the article again. I’m certain I read it all those years ago but with age reading it now was like the first time.