#korean sapsali

[thelazypetowner]

Obligatory bluebonnet photo! I got a few others, but obviously I had to spend too much time making One Good Edit. ™️

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[grison-in-space]

thinking about dog breeds marketed as being a piece of history, I keep getting caught up in dog breeds for whom the real, verifiable, documented history is legitimately a story of resistance and survival.

I had half a post the other day about the well documented fact that indigenous breeds of livestock tend to not survive much past colonial occupation, right? This is especially true if the animals are an important part of indigenous culture, specifically because slaughtering all the animals or forcing indigenous people to cross them to 'improved' colonial strains is an almost ubiquitous piece of the colonialist occupier handbook. Often, after a long period of time, a member of the occupying colonizing culture will come in, scrape up whatever minimal pieces are left, outcross to a bunch of other strains, and start using the unstoppable, tragic story of loss to market the animals they now consider "theirs" to their fellows, generally without input from the living descendants of the strain's original creators. Sometimes, as with the American Indian Dog people, no obvious single breed or landrace actually even existed and they merge a whole bunch of cultures' animals together into a homogeneous mash-up!

Once the story is set, these storytellers will start breeding their animals according to their own fashions and values, because the story is only important insofar as it provides an exotic origin; it's not important in terms of creating cultural connection to the people who are mentioned in those origins. Often, when genetic tests are done and compared to pre-contact animals, it turns out that there's almost no trace of the originating strain left in any case. Often there are just no animals left after the one-two punch of decimation and drowning in modern genomes, and reconstruction can do as it will.

This is the story of the Appaloosa horse, the Araucana chicken, the Samoyed, the Alaskan Malamute, the Carolina Dog, basically every generic American Indian Dog project I am aware of, the Chihuahua, and a number of others. I am not familiar enough with with the history of Peruvian Orchid or Xolo to say there offhand, but I wouldn't be surprised.

(Sometimes a similar phenomenon occurs without the directed slaughter and forcible removal of indigenous control over their native animals, as with Saluki, Arabian horses, Basenji, and Afghan Hounds. This is more likely if the indigenous animals are not especially valued by the indigenous culture, as with Basenji, or if local colonization is not especially preoccupied with eradicating and assimilating local culture, as with British occupation of the Middle East.)

In recent decades, I've noted Saluki, Basenji, and Arabian breeders beginning to do more reaching out to cultures of origin and incorporating at least their modern dogs into the pedigree gene pools, as well as sometimes incorporating the actual opinions of those cultures on dog selection and breeding. This is awesome. More of that, please.

But there are also indigenous breeds and landraces out there that have survived colonization within the hands of their originating people!

Take the Sapsali of South Korea. During the Japanese colonial period, these dogs were slaughtered in huge numbers to make coats for Japanese soldiers and as a way of subjugating Korean culture. But very few survived, and they are in the process of being carefully managed by South Korean breeders to bring them back as a larger population. (The Jindo was the only South Korean dog breed to escape deliberate Japanese attempts at eradication, because it resembles Japan's own indigenous dog breeds and this was felt to be a plus. This doesn't mean that they weren't also slaughtered in huge numbers to be turned into coats; it just means that Japanese colonial efforts weren't actively trying to exterminate them.)

Greenland Dogs and Canadian Inuit Dogs hold a similar story of survival despite pressure to give the dogs up (including dog seizures and killings by the RCMP in the case of the Canadian dogs).

There are also reconstruction projects being undertaken by colonized peoples who are cheerfully agnostic about retaining unbroken genetic connection to their ancestral animals.

The Nez Perce horse, for example, is a Nez Perce-owned and managed effort to recreate their original horses--at the time renowned as long distance, fast endurance animals--using Akhal-Teke crosses to restore the original phenotype, away from the more common Quarter-Horse-like stock horses that characterize many of the animals currently registered as Appaloosas.

There are also some murmurings about potentially attempting to recreate the extinct Salish Woolly Dog with or without genomic assistance from preserved hides. That would be wild and incredibly cool, reconstruction or not.

#animal breeding #decolonization

[monbebe-twins]

🐹: What hairstyle is Chae Hyungwon even aiming for?

🐢: At this point I have no idea what I want to do with my hair.

🐹: I think he aims for sapsali style (a shaggy south korean dog breed)

😆😆😂😂

But I’m actually really loving Hyungwon’s long hair tbh 😍😍😍

#monsta x #kihyun #hyungwon

[doggos-with-jobs]

My aunt’s Korean Sapsali. These dogs are believed to dispel ghosts and evil spirits.

#aww #cute #eyebleach #brighten your day #dogs with jobs

[cyanocoraxx]

lesser-known dog breeds

majorca shepherd (spanish herding/guard dog), greek harehound (greek scenthound), carea leonés (spanish sheep herding dog), cane di oropa (italian cattle/sheep herding dog), donggyeongi (korean breed), sapsali (korean breed, believed to dispel ghosts and evil spirits), cão de castro laboreiro (portuguese livestock guardian), liangshan (chinese generalist hunting dog), xiasi hound (chinese guard, hunting and boar-baiting dog)

#dogblr #dogs #majorca shepherd #greek harehound #xiasi #liangshan #sapsali #mine

[cendrineartist]

Film photography: Gus and Pepper

Documenting my journey into B&W film photography, starting in September 2019. Year: 2019 Camera: Nikon F90X Lens: Nikon AF DC-Nikkor 105mm Film: Ilford XP2 Super 400 B&W Note: Gus is a Jack Chi, a cross between the Jack Russell Terrier and Chihuahua dog breeds. Pepper is supposed to be a Terrier mix, but looks to me like a Sapsali (a shaggy South Korean breed of dog). See more of my film…

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[rocadog]

The Sapsali is playful, loyal and friendly Korean dog breed. In this video i will tell you all the important facts and information about Sapsali dog breed.

#sapsali

[thelazypetowner]

It's World Frog Day! 🐸 Ribbit!

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[thelazypetowner]

Some Journey pictures! She's been here for almost 2 weeks, and she's doing well. Overall, a very good puppy verging on adolescence. She eats well, loves treats/toys, is generally calmer (not super jumpy or mouthy). Interested in the cats, sometimes too much, but I can tell it's very much just a puppy interest and not any instinctual prey drive. She's just starting to get used to the crate, and for the past two nights, she hasn't barked when going to bed (although, I do need to pick her up and put her in there), but we're still working on duration and comfort (to hopefully want to go in and rest). I've taken her to work off shift/when closed) a few times, and she plays really well with other dogs (that I hand picked for being good). She also loves water.

Our biggest challenge has been with strangers. Sapsarees tend to range between aloof to friendly. Right now, she's in a fear period, so she alarm barks at strangers approaching fast (unfortunately, including my family members). Her parents were both good with people, and the foundation said her littermates are going through the same, so hopefully she'll stop once she's out of her fear period (and had time to adjust and acclimate).

I mostly post her on Facebook and Instagram. I'll try here occasionally, but there will be more updates on her Isntagram here.

#journey the sapsaree #sapsaree #sapsali #sapsalgae #sapsal dog #sapsal #primitive dog #rare dog #puppy #korean sapsali #korean sapsaree

[thelazypetowner]

Happy New Year!

Brief Journey update, she's doing great! She turned 8 months old a few days ago (about as tall as my knees and 35lb), and for an adolescent, she's so easy! She's very low energy, generally non-destructive and listens well (as much as an adolescent can). She's strongly motivated by environmental smells, though, so those can be a struggle to redirect her from. She's great with other dogs (polite greets, plays well, very non-reactive), smart and picks things up fast, and while she can go speed demon when she wants, she generally likes to meander and smell (she isn't a big leash puller because of that). She also has a very polite, soft mouth when taking treats/food, but she can be pretty chompy when I have a toy. 😅 She also loves water! Her and Enzo get along very well also. Mostly they relax together, but they rarely do play together. We have yet to master walking on leash together, though.

Our main struggle right now is fear reactivity (via barking) to direct/intimidating interactions with people. She's okay walking pass people or watching them, but if someone stares directly at her for a period of time or approaches us or seemingly at us (like jogging our direction to go past), she'll start barking. At this point, given her breed (naturally wary of strangers) and what I've observed over the three months I've had her, she'll likely never enjoy attention from strangers, but there has been some improvement. I expect a dip/step back at some point just because adolescent age, fear phases, etc. but hopefully as she matures and has more exposure, she'll be more neutral.

Overall doing great, though! Hoping the new year and early adulthood will be nice to us! And if you want to see her more, because I'm not as active on Tumblr, I've been mostly posting her on Instagram @sapsaree.journey (which... I also struggle to be active on but... yeah...).

#journey the sapsaree #sapsaree #sapsali #sapsalgae #sapsal dog #sapsal #primitive dog #rare dog breed #rare dog #puppy #korean sapsali #korean sapsaree #삽살개 #삽살이 #단모 삽살개

[thelazypetowner]

Did I just make a new YT channel and video just for Journey? Yes, yes I have. I have become "that" pet owner. ☠️ Granted, not sure how long it'll last. I kind of just... completely forgot my camera can actually record video, so I haven't done it until the past week (please excuse my poor focusing lol she moves so fast). I can't imagine I'll be doing this THAT often, but... well, I guess it's just another social media to reach out on.

I digress, though. I just thought it would be fun to look back on when she's older. One of the common comments I see across different social media and in person is how happy she looks in photos I share, etc. That wasn't on purpose, but I hope that is shown here. :) She's mostly very chill, but she's very bouncy and lively when she gets in into it.

It's also fun to see how she and Enzo interact. They've started figuring each other out, and they get each other worked up. Despite him playing kind of rough, he's very tolerant, patient, and handicaps his play for her (a lot of which you can see here, too).

Anyway, hope y'all enjoy and definitely not get motion sick like I did making this. :'))

#journey the sapsaree #sapsaree #sapsali #sapsalgae #sapsal dog #sapsal #primitive dog #rare dog #puppy #korean sapsali #korean sapsaree #Youtube

[thelazypetowner]

So I haven't truly posted/updated here in ages. Not really active on tumblr anymore (IDK why bc fb is a million times more toxic). But here's a quick update for those who don't have me on FB (which is most of you because fuck dog community in general; I yeeted most of y'all, sorry but not really).

Row 1: Went to Hawaii (hotel balcony view, ocean sunset, top of volcano/mountain)

Row 2: Went to South Korea (sight seeing, Korean sapsaree--which I'm on the waitlist for one now--food)

Row 3: Still volunteering w/ local german shepherd rescue

Row 4: Ink passed away last year in August (RIP, super depressed about that). Amber and Sol still here

Row 5: Went to my first dog show, just as a spectator, where we also picked up bestie's silken who we hosted a few days (Enzo and puppy got along well), Enzo currently doing alright (so are snakes, but I don't have recent pics)

Me personally: I'm an assistant manager at my job now. Trying to read physical books more. Re-obsessed with Pokemon with Scarlet and Violet. Really needing/wanting a vacation...

That's all. See y'all again in another 4 years maybe.

#enzo #dog #german shepherd #cat #ink #amber #sol #fable #silken windhound #german shepherd mix #sapsaree #korean sapsaree #sapsali #korean sapsali #hawaii #south korea #food #travel #ocean #mountain #puppy #rescue dog #mutt #animal #photography #library #vacation #life update