@sukoshi's mom - There's been research on the flow of dogs to Japan. Here's one of the first results on the matter, based on blood protein morphology. The map on the left is the informative one. The map on the right is probably a control. In the upper left portion of each map is the code for the Chinese origin dogs.
A detailed discussion from the viewpoint of the Sapsaree professor is provided here:
Wow, that's a cool map. Interesting, too, about the dog that looks like BeeBee, because it also looks like my Bel in the face....Bel has an interesting, very foxy, face.....
Ugh man, these Shibas are seriously so cool. I'd love to have a couple, but seeing as they would be basically impossible to get good lines out of Japan... Probably not gonna happen. I would be psyched if I could get a breeding pair and start a preservation group in NA.
So this mino shiba was at a NIPPO show? So they are recognized by NIPPO or not?
@Losech Yeah, a NA preservation would be awesome. With so few dogs, I guess it makes more sense to keep the breeding dogs in Japan, though. You can't even take dogs back into Japan once they've left, so I suppose the only option would be AI if you wanted to keep breeding ties. Which, I guess, isn't out of the picture, but I don't think the Japanese breeders are into AI.
shibamistress that picture I posted was a mino shiba from a blog Calia posted. I thought that one had a real NGSD look that's why I pointed and commented about it.
I saw two at my local zoo they were cute they were mostly hanging out because it was hot.
Nah, NIPPO does not recognize the Mino Shiba. I happen to come across a NIPPO Kai Ken Group at show and one of the owners owned a Mino =].
You CAN take dogs back into Japan! It's just Japanese breeders think it unlikely that one of their pups will come back once sold to homes across the sea. It's an added expense and slight inconvenience.
@ShikokuSpirit - I thought dogs had to be quarantined for a long period of time before re-entering Japan. Which, I guess isn't impossible, but a quarantine is more daunting than a simple plane ride.
It is 7 months of in-house quarantine (you have to do a blood test and then rabies shots twice). It's very easy unless you are in a hurry to get into Japan with your dog during a certain time-frame ("last minute" kind of ordeal). After that you have 2 years in which the dog can travel back to and forth from Japan freely. The "quarantine" has to be done only every 2 years if dog is not resident of Japan.
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A detailed discussion from the viewpoint of the Sapsaree professor is provided here:
http://sapsaree.org/page.php?p1=07&p2=0201
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/harumisou_suzuhime/GALLERY/show_image_v2.html?id=http://img2.blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ybi/1/d7/6b/harumisou_suzuhime/folder/338222/img_338222_28432119_0?1302649637
I've read about mino shiba inu before and they look so neat I love the deep dark red coloring on them.
http://blog-imgs-47.fc2.com/m/i/n/minoshiba/P1050610.jpg
I met a Mino Shiba at the NIPPO show last year. He is a neat dog. I hung out with some really awesome Kai Ken peeps and one of the owners had one.
His name is Musashi-kun:
@Losech Yeah, a NA preservation would be awesome. With so few dogs, I guess it makes more sense to keep the breeding dogs in Japan, though. You can't even take dogs back into Japan once they've left, so I suppose the only option would be AI if you wanted to keep breeding ties. Which, I guess, isn't out of the picture, but I don't think the Japanese breeders are into AI.
I saw two at my local zoo they were cute they were mostly hanging out because it was hot.
Nah, NIPPO does not recognize the Mino Shiba. I happen to come across a NIPPO Kai Ken Group at show and one of the owners owned a Mino =].
You CAN take dogs back into Japan! It's just Japanese breeders think it unlikely that one of their pups will come back once sold to homes across the sea. It's an added expense and slight inconvenience.
Hope that clears up any uncertains!
It is 7 months of in-house quarantine (you have to do a blood test and then rabies shots twice). It's very easy unless you are in a hurry to get into Japan with your dog during a certain time-frame ("last minute" kind of ordeal). After that you have 2 years in which the dog can travel back to and forth from Japan freely. The "quarantine" has to be done only every 2 years if dog is not resident of Japan.