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Thursday, April 23, 2009








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1 comment:

Retrieverman said...

The "Andean double-nosed tiger hound" is a village dog found in the Bolivian Amazon. These dogs are believed to derive from Spanish dogs that were brought there either by conquistadors or during the colonial period.

The Spanish have a pointer that sometimes has a double nose called Pachon Navarro. The Portuguese Pointers and the German shorthaired pointers (Kurzhaar) sometimes have this double-nosed trait.

The Turkish pointer or Çatalburun is actually bred for this trait.

It's possible that the Spanish brought these dogs to South America, where they interbred with various Native and imported dogs.

I don't know whether any analysis of the two Andean tiger hounds' DNA connected them to these European pointers. We often see similar traits pop up in unrelated strains of dog. For example, pugs look like small mastiffs, but they aren't related to mastiffs at all. They are actually a close relative of the pekingese and the shih tzu.