Below is a short on wild or feral canines.
NATURE'S DOG CLAN:
Hardware: outdoor coat, generalize form.
Software: full instincts.Use: to survive as a street dog or wild dog.
Bio: street dog can have arrested development (neoteny stages) - they may heat twice a year and never disperse, - but then again they can develop beyond the stage of dispersal..
Also: stages repeat in a spiral fashion in dogs like they do in people but to a lesser degree.
Puberty can offer a chance for the software (programs, instincts) which were never used in the stage when the window of opportunity was open, a second chance to re-open and become habit before that window of opportunity once again closes (the instinct again goes dormant).
If this were not the case, dogs would not be as an adaptable species. .
Puberty also has it's own set of instincts, which vary in intensity with breeds. If a breed of dog had instincts re-awaken at puberty that caused him to kill chickens and get so hard headed that he refused to listen to his human family - he would never live long enough to raise his puppies. .
Although today that has changed, and if your dog suddenly desired to hunt chicken, you probably wouldn't know it, and the dog, never having seen a chicken, wouldn't have an object for his new instinct and would probably be happy fetching balls and toys.
Fetching balls and toys is not a bad job, especially if that is what you love to do, and you get lots of praise for it from your family - beats fighting elk for your every meal..
Natural Dogs:
Street dogs, pariah dogs, feral dogs. Dingoes. Basenjis. (who heat only once a year)
Coyotes. Jackels. Wolves - many kinds. Dhole. Bush dogs .Maned wolves. African Painted Dogs.
Foxes - many kinds. They aren't really dogs, but they are canines and Timothy Treadwell's foxes looked tame. The tame fur fox experiment showed how easy they are to breed to be tamer.
Grey foxes are said to have a strong odor. Fennec foxes are said to be very small..If the (censored) purebred loving show breeders and commercial home business puppy sellers completely ruin dogs, then I think I might want a fox instead.
But I don't know any foxes, it's just the last hope. And why not? They are small, cute, and still have wild populations. But for most people even a sickly dog might be better, not every family is right for every kind of animal..
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Changing Similar Breeds into Varieties of one Breed. Moving Field Varieties into a Separate Kingdom.
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DAW
MOLOSSERS
1) flockbonders
2) old war dogs (mastiffs)
3) catchdogs
4) pitbulls
TERRIERS
5) den dogs
6) dash terriers
SPRINTHUNDS
7) rabbithunds
8) staghunds
HOUND DOGS
9) tree hounds
10) beagle hounds
11) pack hounds
12) river hounds
& blood hounds
BIRD DOGS
13) curly water dogs
14) bird rushers
15) duck retrievers
16) pointing dogs
17) TOLLERS
(feather & hooves)
STOCK DOGS
18) herding dogs
19) heeler dogs
ARCTIC DOGS
20) Artic sled dogs
21) Arctic huntdogs
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FERAL DOGS
WILD DOGS.
1) flockbonders
2) old war dogs (mastiffs)
3) catchdogs
4) pitbulls
TERRIERS
5) den dogs
6) dash terriers
SPRINTHUNDS
7) rabbithunds
8) staghunds
HOUND DOGS
9) tree hounds
10) beagle hounds
11) pack hounds
12) river hounds
& blood hounds
BIRD DOGS
13) curly water dogs
14) bird rushers
15) duck retrievers
16) pointing dogs
17) TOLLERS
(feather & hooves)
STOCK DOGS
18) herding dogs
19) heeler dogs
ARCTIC DOGS
20) Artic sled dogs
21) Arctic huntdogs
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FERAL DOGS
WILD DOGS.
non-DAW groups
Some types of dogs do not easily fit into DAW groups, and are dropped below the main groups.
I) GUARD DOGS
POLICE DOGS
MILITARY DOGS
II) PET DOGS
HOUSE DOGS
III) SHOW DOGS
COMPETITION DOGS
BALLSPORT DOGS
IV) MODERN USEFUL DOGS
(LIKE: GUIDE DOGS).
DAW explains how some types of dogs were bred, not how they should be bred for any newer use - like sniffer dogs or guide dogs.
In the traditional groups, types (breeds) of dogs have already been bred to do those task well. In the newer uses of dogs, there are no breeds already developed for those tasks, so dogs from other groups are trained (not bred) for that task.
If the trait wanted is NOT already found in the instincts of wolves, then what is often best is a highly trainable dog, not one with firm instincts for one aspect of the wolf.
I) GUARD DOGS
POLICE DOGS
MILITARY DOGS
II) PET DOGS
HOUSE DOGS
III) SHOW DOGS
COMPETITION DOGS
BALLSPORT DOGS
IV) MODERN USEFUL DOGS
(LIKE: GUIDE DOGS).
DAW explains how some types of dogs were bred, not how they should be bred for any newer use - like sniffer dogs or guide dogs.
In the traditional groups, types (breeds) of dogs have already been bred to do those task well. In the newer uses of dogs, there are no breeds already developed for those tasks, so dogs from other groups are trained (not bred) for that task.
If the trait wanted is NOT already found in the instincts of wolves, then what is often best is a highly trainable dog, not one with firm instincts for one aspect of the wolf.