Sentences with phrase «ancient working dog»

The Great Pyrenees, also known and the Pyrenees Mountain Dog, is an ancient working dog whose purpose was to guard livestock from predators.

This magnificent ancient working dog presents an impression of functional utility without exaggerated features.

Spend time with a Samoyed and it becomes obvious that this is an ancient working dog.

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The work finds that today's pooches are more closely related to ancient canids than to modern wolves, indicating that the dog's wolf ancestor no longer exists.

«The Old English Sheepdog is one of the most ancient of British working breeds and has become one of the most instantly reconizable breeds of dog in the world and one of the most popular show dogs.

It is a working breed that originates from the Yakutia region of the Russian Siberia and can be used for... [Read more...] about Yakutian Laika — A New Ancient Dog Breed

In spite of his youthful history, the Labrala has some pretty ancient lineage that includes the Labrador retriever who dates back to 19th century Newfoundland where he was used as a working dog on fishing boats as well as the Vizsla who comes from Hungary and dates back almost a thousand years where he was used for hunting in Central Europe.

JPG» / > An ancient sight hound depicted on the tomb of Tutankhamon, the Ibizan hound has the ability to jump great heights, is agile, and now works as a scent hound and a family dog.

Answer by Tamara Follett My book The Caucasian Ovcharka: The Complete Resource on this Ancient and Mysterious Guardian, goes into specific detail on what kinds of dogs work well with Caucasians.

History & Use The Bearded Collie is a medium - sized working dog of ancient origin resembling the Old English sheepdog.

As with many ancient working breeds, there is little direct evidence in word or picture to prove how the Corgi came to be; unlike the pets of aristocrats, working dogs were largely undocumented and tended to be lumped together as «curs» — not a derogatory term in those times, but simply used to distinguish ordinary canines from dogs of high breeding.

In dogs, the term breed is used two ways: loosely, to refer to dog types or landraces of dog (also called natural breeds or ancient breeds); or more precisely, to refer to modern breeds of dog, which are documented so as to be known to be descended from specific ancestors, that closely resemble others of their breed in appearance, movement, way of working and other characters; and that reproduce with offspring closely resembling each other and their parents.

Dr. Tim's Heirloom Ancient Grains Chicken Formula is for the sedentary to moderately active dog, and supports a casual lifestyle by working in conjunction with your dog's natural metabolism.

Dr. Tim's Heirloom Ancient Grains Chicken Formula is for the sedentary to moderately active dog, and supports a casual lifestyle by working in conj...

Purebred dogs were also categorized into one of the 11 groupings based upon haplotype sharing as defined in Wayne and VonHoldt (2012)[14](n = 55,353): ancient and spitz (n = 2946), herding (n = 4579), mastiff - like (n = 5548), retriever (n = 18,347), scent hounds (n = 3742), sight hounds (n = 761), small terriers (n = 2534), spaniels (n = 4315), toy (n = 5542), working dogs 1 (poodles and Havanese; n = 1923), and working dogs 2 (n = 5116)(Additional file 1: Table S1 and Additional file 2: Table S2).

I thought VV and Crash only went back as far as the GBA; it's really cool to see you're still super passionate about Crash after all these years and able to dig into ancient Naughty Dog work.

Highlights of the exhibition include ancient Egyptian sculptures of the gods Bast and Anubis on loan from the San Antonio Museum of Art, a folio from the Tegernsee Miscellany aka Bede Compendium — an eleventh - century manuscript depicting a zodiac dog from the Harry Ransom Center, and Thomas Sully's Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire from the Dallas Museum of Art, along with Albrecht Dürer's St. Eustace, a group of important and rare prints by Paul Gauguin, and contemporary works by Louise Bourgeois, William Wegman and Sandy Skoglund.

«Days are Dogs» seems almost like a mini retrospective for the artist, who has gained a reputation for poignant, essayistic multimedia works that interrogate the stories we tell ourselves, whether through ancient myths or everyday objects.