Native American Indian Dogs

[Guest Anonymous]

This is silly. Neither vets nor anybody else can tell for certain if a dog has minimal wolf content just by looking at their teeth. Wolf/dog mixes are no different than, say, collie mixes. Sometimes it is obvious that the mix has wolf (or collie) in it, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes it is impossible to tell.

Anybody who is considering paying ANY money for a native american indian dog or a "carolina dog" ought to pay a visit to the shelter and notice that all these dogs that look and act exactly like their "rare purebred" who are generic randombred dogs. They can be wonderful dogs, (or not so wonderful dogs, just like any other randombred) but they aren't bred for any purpose, nor are they responsibly bred. It is highly questionable whether any of them can accurately be considered purebred.

How much did you guys spend? What health screens were done on the parents/grandparents of your the puppies you bought? What did the parents/grandparents of your dogs DO, supposedly?

primrose

[Seijun]

Supposedly, the NAIDS are supposed to be some sort of rare, nearly extinct 'breed' that was owned by the Native Aericans, and helped them hunt, look for food, etc. If you look at old pictures though, the Native Americans had mutts also. No different than a mutt in a shelter today. They didn't have any specific, pure breed of dog.

Carolina dogs are not fake dogs, however they are not a pure breed either. They are feral dogs who live down south, and who have slowly began to revert back to 'wild' forms. Technicaly, they are mutts too though :D

~Seij