Breed Priorities – Canaan dog
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By Nikki Riggsbee
The Canaan Dog can be considered a very old and still a relatively new breed. The Pariah Dog, the ancestor of the Canaan Dog, can be traced back thousands of years to the dogs of the “Land of Canaan.” It functioned as a guard and herding dog for the ancient Israelites. Later, the dogs lived mostly wild in the Negev Desert, although some stayed with people in the area functioning as herd and general guardians.
In the mid-twentieth century, Dr. Rudolphina Menzel was charged by the precursor of the Israeli defense force to develop a dog organization to produce guard dogs. She found existing breeds unsuitable to the Middle East climate and terrain. She turned to the area pariah, semi-wild dogs for her breeding program as one well-suited to the general area. She found them adaptable to domestication, and she named them Canaan Dog after the land where they were found. The breed was introduced as a working dog and was used during and after World War II for patrol, tracking, mine detection, and guarding.
In 1965, the first Canaan Dogs were imported into the United States. In 1997, the Canaan Dog became approved to compete in the AKC herding group.
With the help of the parent club, we found thirty-one Canaan Dog breeder-judges, mentors, and other experts to invite to take a survey on the priorities of their breed. Twenty-three agreed to do so, and eighteen completed surveys were returned. They have been in the breed over twenty-four years on average. Those who judge them have been doing so for nearly eleven years on average.
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on Nov 26 2021. Filed under Current Articles, Featured.
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