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looks like 25% GSD to me, the top quarter!
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that's a fine looking pup
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You have weighted your Hokkaido at the pet place, just under 40lbs. Have you weighed your Conker? Is Conker a little big for a Shiba or do you think pretty average? Are both males? (thinking of the tendancy for male dogs to be a bit bigger than …
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Okay, after doing some more reading and thanks to some links here I think I have a better idea of history, which I will relate. (However, my main question does remain) 12,000 years ago, Jomon people showed up with their dogs. 2,000 years agoA la…
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so, it turns out that in addition to the 6 most common Nihon ken that were declared national monuments, there was at least one more, the Koshi-no-inu, that had so few numbers after WW2 that it dwindled into extinction and/or was absorbed into other …
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What kind of numbers do the four medium Nihon Ken get at the big FCI shows, and at the biggest Japanese show?
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@crispy, Thanks for the link, I left a comment on one of his posts basically asking this same question.
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Does it strike no one else as odd that 6 groups of dogs were found...all in low numbers, and then after WW 2 which all but wiped out dogs in Japan, the only 'casualty' of the 6 groups was loosing a few subtypes of Shiba Inu? Do you think they were …
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"Once I posted it, I see there were 26 comments since I wrote it! " Well, if nothing else, all my questions got this board hopping!
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a few questions on NIPPO. I have read that during WW2 Japanese dogs were killed for their fur to line the coats for soldiers which decimated many different sub-types, and that after the war's end, when there was an interest in in thing of 'cultural…
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@Crispy It looks like you partially answered my question above as I was writing it I always figured there was other medium and small dogs, but I guess I assumed that when 1920s and 1930s arrived and NIPPO went out looking for 'National Treasure' b…
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And I guess I should ask, the link provided it states that Nippo considers ALL 6 to be the SAME BREED. Is that an accurate statement of Nippo's stance? If so, do you agree with that stance? If that is their stance, what stops a person from crossi…
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Also, was going to ask, it appears like there are show pressures on the Shikoku to have a cinnamon bun tail vs sickle, less stop, etc. Is this same pressure being applied on all 4? Or for some is sickle tail = good fully curled = bad, etc.
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@crispy I know the 4 breeds share the same standard or the standard is broad enough to encompass one in the other, but I thought that NIPPO declared 6 distinct breeds to be national treasures, the 4 mediums plus Shiba and Akita, which I guess I alw…
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check out http://www.oldtimefarmshepherd.org/current-collie-articles/difference-english-shepherds-scotch-collies/ about half-way down the page they have 4 closely related and somewhat similar dogs, then have a 'guide' to what features are most as…
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@Calia do you agree with the earlier poster about Shikoku temperament? It does seem like there is starting to be a very distinct show version of Shikoku structurally, but I also find this page http://www.shikoku-ken.org/about-shikoku-ken/appearan…
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@wryly Yea I was tying to remember if I ever saw spotting on the tongue of a dutch shepherd or brindle greyhound. @cdenny I may have not been as exact as I should have about color. You are right that as the brindle gene is a recessive, and so yo…
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@crispy Thanks for the pictures. I am familiar with stop, but there can be many terms to describe all the different ways it can be. I just wanted to be sure of what you meant. When I think of stop I always picture a little ski-er going down the …
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is spotting on tongue possibly related to brindle gene? i.e. have you ever encountered a non-brindle Kai and took the time to look at his tongue or look at Brindle Hok's tongue? Thanks for the info from you all btw
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@Wryly Can you elaborate on what you mean by smoother stop? Is it flatter vs slightly domed? Is it just less of a change in angle as it goes from forehead to stop to muzzle?
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@Crispy I was going on size, (Kishu seems to be more often described as 30-60 vs 30-50)but that would explain it. I do see the more rounded ears now. I also see the Kishu has a sickle tail rather than a full curl over back in general carriage…
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whobitme. Thanks, that's great. I think maybe that's because the Ainu were doing more bear hunting and doing it longer than the hunters in the other regions. (Bear VERY important animals to the Ainu, all animals were gods, but bear was the chief …
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in picture 1, the Kishu is o the right, in picture 2, on the right again, Kishu only in pic 3 and Shikoku only in pic 4. Is that correct?
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But it leads me to wonder how different the other three really are. Was there one hunting dog developed by the Yamato-Japanese that just like them was a mix of Jomon/Ainu dogs and Yayoi dogs, and then just like the shared language and culture of the…
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There is also the running theme of isolated areas meaning that in each region the 'breed was kept pure'. This isolation also meant that people kept up the local activities of hunting even when the practices were forgotten in less isolated areas. All…
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that's a great video
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I know this thread is almost a year old, and the original poster is long gone. Still, it is one of the hits that pop up when people search for Sakhalin Husky. I suspect that many people have seen this thread because of that reason, and will contin…