an afro what???

[between the wrinkles]

not afro :lol:
an africanis!
i just discovered this breed not long ago and believe you me i am impressed. i did lots of searching on them, and finally got touch with an owner of 2 puppies who is also ver pleased. they are one of the oldest "breeds" there are. they've been kept mostly by tribes, and bred for centuries as hunting dogs. i think they're one of my new favourites for sure!

i think they look so rustik!

here's an interesting article too.
http://www.wag.co.za/root_news/a_dog_africa_calls_its_own.html

there's not too much info on this breed, but im scrounging up more, no worries! :D

[imported_Matty]

Yeah, and then once man starts interfering these natural dogs will be ruined. :(

[imported_Cassie]

If you want to know more about this race or type of dog you should read the book "dogs" by Raymond Coppinger and Lorna Coppinger. They are biologists and have written the first book that really studies dogs and where they came from.
It is quite interesting when you learn that there were many "types" or "races" of dogs just as there are humans. They evolved to adapt to their natural environment. The dogs had normal motor patterns and none of the motor patterns where enhanced like our purebred dogs. Our purebreds are man made from these races or types of dogs from around the world. Basically in history when a culture was travelling and took a few dogs; they bred with the local village dogs of where they were visiting. The people started mixing dogs and then started creating purebreds.
IMO, purebred dogs are pretty unhealthy and genetically unsound. Its good that people are starting to realize that there are natural races of dogs and perhaps that to save the gene pools of our current purebreds it would be wise to crossbreed to develop larger gene pools.

It's quite interesting to know that our dogs in the beginning evolved naturally to be scavengers (mongrels). Then man started ruining them by creating purebreds. By creating purebreds man has created a massive amount of genetic diseases and unhealthy animals. Our poor dogs suffer because every one is programmed to think that purebreds are the original dogs :roll: we have been brainwashed as a society to believe this. We have also been brainwashed to believe that mongrels are degenerate purebreds. What people forget is that our purebreds came from mongrels (or races or types) not the other way around.


Thanks for the link; this ties in quite nicely with the book "Dogs" I read.
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