Other Breeds-Korean Jindo

sukoshi_momsukoshi_mom
edited December 2009 in General
Cross posted from the Shiba Forum

I found this excellent website about Korean Jindos today. Maybe it has already been posted, but I thought it would be useful for Shiba folks, since Shibas and Jindos are sometimes confused by the public and in shelters. Also there is an interesting discussion of Jindo colors and Jindo/mixes on the site. Several examples of Jindo/Nihon Ken mixes are shown.

http://www.jindos.com/jindo/intro/jindo_intro.html

Comments

  • WrylyBrindleWrylyBrindle
    edited November -1
    That's a really great Jindo site! Every feature- eyes to tails.

    I am interested in the jindo brindle: " The Hogu coat appears in the Jindo as a yellow/red background with thin, clearly defined black lines running vertically through the body. Careful inspection should show the white ghosting peaking through the brindle stripes. Puppies should show brindling at a young age."

    which they distinguish from Kai- which tend to be blacker, I guess, and no urajiro in kai brindles...
  • BradA1878BradA1878
    edited November -1
    www.Jindos.com is a great site and is owned/run by Ann, a fellow forum member. Her username is "ayk". Ann is certainly one of the authorities on the Jindo in North America.

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  • aykayk
    edited November -1
    I'm flattered that you guys like the site. The website has been on the backburner for a while. Just haven't been feeling inspired enough to update it. Maybe this holiday break I'll give it another stab.

    I'm honored, Brad, that you think I'm an authority but there are people who are more knowledgable than me who travel back and forth from Korea and have some really nice dogs. They just don't have any web presence. For me, I've made some pretty bad breed ID's before, never traveled back to Korea since I immigrated, and don't own high quality dogs. I still consider myself a student.
  • BradA1878BradA1878
    edited November -1
    It's good to be modest Ann, everyone is a student. :o)

    Owing high quality dogs doesn't make an expert, you learn more from the messed up one than you do the high quality ones, IMHO.

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  • aykayk
    edited November -1
    Owning high quality dogs doesn't make one an expert, but one can't make claims to being one without owning/living with "the real deal" at least once. Best way of describing the shortfall is like owning a Shiba that doesn't look like it would have Kani. Some people would think that if the dog doesn't look it, it must not have it, right? How can a person be a Shiba expert without knowing what Kani is really like? Such is the logic of detractors. I don't really consider it an unfair assumption.

    There are still lots of things on my "must experience" list before I'll be happy with my level of knowledge. Seeing an experienced hunting pack work on deer and boar. visiting Jindo island during show season, etc.
  • dlrobertsdlroberts
    edited December 2009
    I would argue this:

    The fact that you acknowledge you have more to learn and have a good idea of what some of those things are makes you more of an expert than the vast majority of "experts" out there. :-)

    "He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so." ~C.C. Colton

    "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before....He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

    And finally:

    "To know that you know what you know, and that you do not know what you do not know, that is true wisdom." ~Confucious
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