I got an actual drawing tablet and decided to do the rest of the Doctors to test it out.
IT IS AMAZING.
You can have a look at the others here.
Also, thank you so much to everyone who gave suggestions for Eleven, he was, by far, the HARDEST to find a breed/design for.
I ended up going with a border collie because a) they're great family dogs, b) they like to herd their 'flock' and keep them close and c) they 'give the eye', which means they have a predatory stare that's fierce enough to control a flock of sheep. Sound familiar?
Just gonna pop in a list of the breeds, if anyone's interested (or can't recognise them):
Fifth: Labrador Retriever
War: German Shepard
Ninth: Mixed breed (apparently he wasn't supposed to look 'doctorish', so like...)
Third: Irish Wolfhound
Eight: Portuguese Water Dog
Fugitive: Puli
Eleventh: Border Collie
I do not plan on getting anything soon but I am the type of person who throws myself into research years ahead of time.
With Kaiju’s recent health issues I’ve realized I need to really get to work on finding another working breed that will fit. The BRT is absolutely perfect for me:
- Good even temperament
- Loves to work and easily trained
- Aloof with strangers but not overly so. In public, Kaiju is generally open to attention from strangers without being very interested in them. At home, he is all business and that’s how I like it. I have PTSD from repeated home invasions/attempts and need a dog that makes me feel safe while also being under control.
- Does well with other animals
My one and only con is that the breed is very heat sensitive. I really like to go out and do things with my dogs but live in southern USA where the highs in the summer average 85-100° F. Kaiju is miserable in anything over 73° which makes up about 60% of the year here.
Breeds I have considered but don’t have much experience with:
-Cane Corso: I like the well raised ones that I have met
-Boerboel: On paper they seem to be very similar to BRTs but I have never interacted with them
-Central Asian Shepherd: Very interesting to me but I have had very little interaction with them
Breeds I don’t think would work:
-Doberman: The health issues in the breed terrify me
-Most shepherds are too high energy for me (The AHT already keeps me on my toes and he’s only 13 pounds)
-Most Spitz breeds
In conclusion, the most important traits I’m looking for are:
-Mostly heat tolerant
-Handler focused
-Good with other animals (mostly dogs)
-Good guard dog, doesn’t have to be huge
I may have made a post similar to this before but I couldn’t find it and have forgotten anything it yielded. Thank you!
This is Duke! Yes, I breed dogs but I do so ethically. I breed for temperament and livelihood. I actually started breeding when I did an embark on my 2 dachshunds. They were both lacking in a common gene that causes back problems for the breed. I aim to make the breed happier and healthier. :) Duke is fully grown and lives on a farm now! This video is from last year. Duke also has partial heterochromia! You can see the brown spot on his blue eyes.
Excerpt: “In 1937, a large Native American cemetery was discovered in west Georgia known as the Bull Creek site. Located near Columbus, Georgia, the pots were described as dog effigies yet no attempt was made to determine the breed they represented. They were said to be similar to dog pots found near Nashville, Tennessee. The pots were cataloged and then donated to the local museum, the Columbus Museum of Arts & Sciences, where one such pot is currently on display.
In 1997, the Georgia Department of Transportation prepared the final report on the site and noted similarities between the dog pots from the Bull Creek site with those from four other Native American towns dating between 1325-1500 AD. Yet, once again, no attempt was made to determine the breed of dog represented by these pots. These dog pots were noted for their similarity to other such pots unearthed in Tennessee and Arkansas.
In 2011 the first attempt was made to identify the breed of dog represented by these pots and their possible origins. The research, “Were Creek Indians from West Mexico?,“ noted the similarity between the dog pots and the modern Chihuahua breed. The report also noted similar dog effigy pots were found in west Mexico in the state of Colima. Yet most research about the origins of the modern Chihuahua breed speculated that they were the result of crossbreeding native Mexican dogs with European or Chinese dogs brought with the first explorers in the 1500s. Since the dog pots in Georgia dated to around 1325 AD this seemed to contradict this widely held belief about the origins of the Chihuahua.”