Carolina Dog Breed Magazine - Showsight

CAROLINA DOG Breed Standard Per Carolina Dog Fanciers of America

This breed standard is intended: to furnish guidelines for dog fanciers who wish to maintain the quality of this breed to enable it to still survive and reproduce on its own, without human assistance in the wild habitat to which it has been adapted by natural selection for thousands of years. Breeders and judges have the responsibility to consider any conditions or exaggerations that are or could be detrimental to the breed’s welfare and they must take the responsibility to see that such detrimental traits are not perpetuated. Any departure from the following should be considered a fault. The seriousness of the fault should be regarded in proportion to its degree and its effect upon the health and welfare of the dog, as well as the dog’s ability to survive and reproduce in its original free-ranging state under natural conditions.

HISTORY:

Several lines of evidence confirm that when the first humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge into North America from Asia, they were accompanied by primitive dogs that could have resulted from the beginnings of the original domestication of middle eastern wolves thousands of years earlier. It is thought that these original dogs moved quickly with their human companions across to the North American continent and then down through the western part of North America, and eventually into the eastern United States, Mexico and Central America. Skeletal remains, prehistoric pictorial representations and mummified bodies of these dogs have been found along with the artifacts of Native Americans. Archeological investigations have documented

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