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	Rare Breed Network: New Guinea Singing Dog Standard
		The New Guinea Singing Dog is a natural breed of wild origin.
		When the dog is at alert the tail is carried over the back in a gentle curve resembling a question mark.
		New Guinea Singing Dogs are active, lively and alert.
	www.rarebreed.com /breeds/ngsd/ngsd_std1.html (1036 words)

	New Guinea Singing Dog
		In 1969 the NGSD was reclassified as a subspecies of the dingo group, Canis lupus (or familiaris) dingo.
		The New Guinea Singing Dog Club of America is concerned about the undocumented NGSD that are being sold to unsuspecting buyers for up to $2,000.00 each by exotic animal dealers and breeders, who may have paid as little as $50.00 for them at exotic animal auctions.
		The NGSD is the oldest pure-bred type of dog, a living relic from the Stone Age, and as such they are like a window to the past, back to the very beginning of man's relationship with the dog.
	www.planet-pets.com /newguineasingdog.htm (1996 words)

	New Guinea Singing Dog Information
		The first pair of captured dogs left the island in 1957, and their descendants were widely distributed to zoos in Europe and the United States.
		NGSDs are golden red or fl and tan with white markings on the underside of the chin, the feet and tail tip.
		The New Guinea Singing Dog (NGSD) is a small-to-medium-sized dog of fox like appearance, with a wedge-shaped head, prick ears, obliquely-set triangular eyes, plush coat, and a brushy tail.
	www.sidyboysfoolin.com /NewGuineaSingingDog.html (864 words)

	Dog and Kennel Magazine
		The outside world discovered the NGSD in 1957 when the first pair was brought down from the New Guinea highlands and taken to the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia.
		Rampant interbreeding, destruction of habitat and an influx of domestic dogs which are breeding with the singers, threaten their lives in New Guinea.
		NGSDs are very intelligent and make entertaining companions, but they need lots of mental stimulation or they start finding their own ways to entertain themselves around your house.
	www.petpublishing.com /dogken/breeds/singingdog.shtml (1494 words)

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		The New Guinea Singing Dog, also known as Hailstrom’s Dog, is more properly considered as a member of the complex of canids including the gray wolf, domestic dog and Australian Dingo.
		So revered are they the skulls of the wild dog killed in a hunt are hung proudly above their doorways along with the skulls of the wild pigs and cassowaries, trophies of the most elusive challenges.
		New Guinea Singing Dogs are said to eat fruit as a main portion of their diet, when it is available.
	vanuatu.tripod.com /dogs.htm (4000 words)

	The Carolina Dog Association - General Information
		The fact that dogs were likely to have reached New Guinea and other islands of the Australasian region through travels with early seafaring peoples, may have contributed to a more monogamous nature in these animals.
		These hybridizations together with crosses to modem European dogs which were subsequently established on the continent over the past 500 years, have created a situation in which it is unlikely that more than a few, if any, remnants of the original primitive dog type still exist in a genetically pure state.
		Studies of dogs captured from lands surrounding the SRS, and their first- and second-generation captive-bred offspring, have begun to reveal unusual behavioral traits, some of which seem to be seasonally adapted to the dogs local environmental conditions.
	www.carolinadogs.org /geninfo/primative.html (2578 words)

	New Guinea Singing Dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New Guinea Singing Dog (NGSD, New Guinea Highland Dog, or Singer) is a relative of the Australian Dingo that is native to New Guinea.
		Discovered by Ellis Troughton in 1957, NGSDs have remained isolated for almost 6000 years, making them possibly the oldest of the pariah dogs.
		NGSDs have a fox-like appearance, with a double coat that ranges in color from red to brown, and have a characteristically large carnassial tooth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Guinea_Singing_Dog (253 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - New Guinea singing dog
		The wild behaviour of New Guinea singing dogs is hardly known.
		New Guinea singing dogs are severely threatened as a result of hunting.
		New Guinea singing dogs are the result of domestic dogs that reverted back to the wild in the early stages of domestication.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/150.shtml (208 words)

	Lowry Park Zoo Reciprocal Partner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Central Highlands of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya New Guinea).
		NGSDs have a short, double coat, are golden red or fl and tan with white markings on the underside of the chin, the feet and tail tip.
		These dogs have existed approximately 5,000 years without hybridization to other breeds, and fossil remains prove they were in the company of primitive humans.
	www.lowryparkzoo.com /html/l3/fact_sheets/l3_att_hab_fswal_ngsingingdog.html (549 words)

	Dog Breed Information, Dog Breeds & Dog Breeder Directories on DogChannel.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A writer during the days of the Roman Empire described the ideal guard dog for the house as visible during daylight hours and able to fade into the shadows at night to attack without being seen.
		New Guinea Singing Dog: The New Guinea Singing Dog, a very rare breed, is a native to the central highlands of the island of New Guinea.
		This large, strong, active dog is capable of heavy work, yet the breed's gentleness, even temper and devotion make the Newf an ideal companion for child or adult.
	www.dogchannel.com /breeds/n_landing.aspx (454 words)

	Welcome to the Vancouver Courier - On Line - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Keowee, a New Guinea singing dog, is one of only 200 of his kind domesticated.
		Keowee is a New Guinea singing dog, a wild dog closely related to the Australian dingo, but so rare as a pet that there are only two in Canada and 200 domesticated worldwide, Collier-Sanuki said.
		Although in 1969, New Guinea singing dogs were grouped with the Australian dingo as a feral wild sub species of the domestic dog, the organization is working to have them declared a separate or sub species.
	www.vancourier.com /issues01/104201/news/104201nn7.html (580 words)

	Dog Owner's guide profile: The Dingo
		The Carolina Dog, a reddish tan Canaan Dog look-alike from the southeastern US, is a feral dog believed to be descended from dogs that came to North America with migrating tribes that formed the basis of native American populations in that region.
		Whichever is the case, the Dingo resembles semi-wild dogs of Southeast Asia and the New Guinea Singing Dog found in the jungles of that island.
		The New Guinea Singing Dog is a feral canid inhabiting the mountainous regions of New Guinea.
	www.canismajor.com /dog/dingo.html (1307 words)

	New Guinea Singing Dog, New Guinea Singing Dogs
		The NGSD is a small-to-medium-sized dog of fox-like appearance with a wedge-shaped head, prick ears, obliquely-set triangular eyes, plush coat, and a brushy tail.
		The Singing Dog is similar to the Dingo, although smaller than its near relative.
		The New Guinea Singing Dog is a hardy breed.
	www.dogbreedinfo.com /newguineasingingdog.htm (829 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Man's smartest friend
		These dogs, related to dingoes, have gone without significant human contact for at least the past 6,000 years, and little is known about their behavior in the wild.
		When New Guinea singing dogs watched a human place food under one of two cups and then gesture toward the cup hiding the food, few approached the cup concealing the food more than half the time, as would be expected by chance.
		By comparison, among domesticated dogs with an unbroken history of human contact, Hare found that all were able to interpret the same human gestures to locate the food.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/02.19/05-dog.html (543 words)

	Lioncrusher's Domain -- New Guinea Singing Dog (Canis lupus hallstromi) facts and pictures
		Unlike domestic dogs, they have enlargened carnassials, the size of which is equal to or greater than 10% of their skull length, a feature found only in wild canids.
		These two breeds are among the earliest breeds of dogs in the world, and most likely are the ancestors of most of the world's domestic dog breeds (with the exception of the large nordic breeds which likely descended from the larger wolf subspecies found further north).
		In 1969, the NGSD was reclassified as being a breed of domestic dog, not its own species, and was placed in the same subspecies as the dingo.
	www.lioncrusher.com /animal.asp?animal=169 (888 words)

	Singing Dog Vanilla: FAQ's
		A: The New Guinea Singing Dog is a dog native to Papua New Guinea that does not bark.
		Although it is fairly well understood that the distillation process by which alcohol is made would not carry the proteins (gliadin) and would thus not be a threat to gluten intolerant people, we have taken the extra precaution of using only corn-based alcohol in our vanilla.
		Singing Dog Vanilla™ products have also been reviewed and approved by the Feingold Association as being safe for consumption by people with Celiac disease.
	www.singingdogvanilla.com /dog.html (606 words)

	USATODAY.com - Scientists dogged by question of origin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While many dog trainers lean on the notion of man taming the savage wolf, securing a steady hunting companion and night watchman, some experts question this story of the dog's domestication.
		She points to ones like the New Guinea singing dogs, which she helps raise for conservation, as more likely precursors to today's lapdog.
		Singing dogs take their name from their penchant for howling in unison, following the same notes up and down the scales.
	www.usatoday.com /news/health/2002-09-30-dogorigins-usat_x.htm (1149 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - The New Guinea Singing Dog
		New Guinea Singing Dogs are small red dogs from the remote highland forests of New Guinea, where they live alongside exotic creatures such as birds of paradise, tree kangaroos and cassowaries.
		They were discovered by western science in the 1950s and were last seen in the wild by researchers in 1991, but from time to time they are still heard singing in the forested mountains by locals.
		Singer experts fear that, through interbreeding with modern domesticated dogs, the singers will become just another mongrel mutt and their genetic link to the primordial pooch will be lost.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/science/newguineasingingdog.shtml (357 words)

	Dog Owner's GuideProfile: Rare Breeds
		Dog breeds developed in all parts of the world to do all kinds of jobs from bed warming in palaces and peasant huts, hunting vermin in farm pantries and barns, and driving livestock to market to hauling freight, watching over nomad camps, and retrieving quarry for hunters.
		The New Guinea Singing Dog is similar to the Dingo of Australia, and may have been a progenitor of that canine.
		New Guinea Singing Dog was discovered in a feral state in its native land in the 1950s.
	www.canismajor.com /dog/raredogs.html (3131 words)

	New Guinea Singing Dog Dog Breed Information
		General Appearance: The New Guinea Singing Dog is a small-to-medium-sized dog of fox-like appearance.
		New Guinea is the second largest island in the world and home to many strange creatures.
		This dog dwells with other creatures in the lowlands of the island as well as the highlands.
	www.puppiesanddogsforsale.com /dog_breed_info/NewGuineaSingingDog.asp (408 words)

	New Guinea Singing Dog Breed
		The New Guinea Singing Dog is a wild sight hound that comes from the island of New Guinea.
		This dog is very much a wild dog and although it has been successfully raised as a pet this is a relatively rare occurrence.
		The New Guinea Singing Dog belongs to the collection of dogs referred to as Sighthounds or Gazehounds, which specialise in hunting its quarry by sight rather than scent.
	www.dog-names.org.uk /new-guinea-singing-dog.htm (531 words)

	Primitive Breeds of Domestic Dogs
		The primitive, non-spitz dogs physically are thirty to forty pound smooth coated dogs with tails that lack the tight curl of the spitz.
		The Canaan dog is included in some lists as a primitive dog, here we discuss him among the herding group, he is often presented as a redomestication of the mid-east pariah dog.
		This theory would have the village scavenger dog be strongly selected to supress active predatory behavior towards domestic animals and humans, large and small, as an adaptation for being allowed to scavenge the wastes of a human settlement.
	netpet.batw.net /articles/primitive.html (1056 words)

	Conservator's Center, Inc.: CCI Animals: New Guinea Singing Dogs
		Faldo and Clancy are CCI's New Guinea Singing Dogs.
		He has a history of escaping the fenced-in backyard and attacking other dogs, so his owner wanted to be sure he came to live in a secure environment.
		The new den is set on the side of a mound of dirt, with the opening high enough that drainage can't flow in.
	www.conservatorscenter.org /animals/newguinea.html (671 words)

	Wolf Park NGSD
		In 1969 NGSDs were instead grouped with the similar Australian Dingo (Canis lupus dingo) as a feral (wild-living) subspecies of the domestic dog, and their Latin name changed to C.
		However they are classified, the NGSD is probably the most primitive known "breed" of domestic dog, brought to New Guinea by Stone Age man at least 6,000 years ago, and kept undiluted due to geographic isolation.
		The status of the wild population is unknown, but many domestic dogs have been imported into the Highlands over the last 20 years and it is feared that wild NGSDs will hybridize with more "modern" dogs as has the Dingo population (which may be as much as 70% hybrids).
	www.wolfpark.org /NGSD.html (764 words)

	Dingo & Other Primitive Dogs -- A Guide from WorkingDogWeb
		Early dogs found in Israel: in northern Israel, at the Natufian culture site called Ein Mallaha, the articulated bones of a young dog or wolf puppy dated to some 12,000 years ago, were found under the left hand of a human skeleton, suggesting an important relationship and perhaps early domestication.
		Pariah dogs around the world look much alike: pariah dogs are semi-tame canids that typically live on the fringe of human settlements from Egypt and Israel to India to southeast Asia and Australia.
		Canaan Dog origin in pariah dogs: the pariah dogs of the Middle East -- living as feral dogs is Israel's Negev Desert -- provided the genetic stock for development of the breed in the 20th century.
	www.workingdogweb.com /Dingo.htm (1719 words)

	New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society - Welcome!
		The New Guinea Singing Dog (NGSD) was discovered by the outside world in 1957 when the first pair was brought down from the New Guinea Highlands to the Taronga Zoo.
		Until the NGSD is once again officially declared a separate subspecies or species, traditional conservation organizations are understandably unwilling to spend funds saving an animal of questionable taxonomic status.
		The New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society has been established as a not-for-profit organization to promote NGSD conservation both in the wild and in captivity.
	www.canineworld.com /ngsdcs (346 words)

	Primitive dogs (Dingo, Canaan, NGSD, Telomian)
		Some of the dogs from her breeding program were trained as guard, as mine detection dogs or as guide dogs for the blind.
		The New Guinea Singing Dog Conservation Society, a not-for-profit organization to promote NGSD conservation both in the wild and in captivity, funds non-invasive research on NGSDs and promotes the breeding of documented NGSDs.
		The Australian Native dog, also known as Warrigal, is usually yellow-ginger in color and, unlike wolves and other canids, rarely hunts in packs.
	caninebreeds.bulldoginformation.com /dingo-canaan-NGSD-telomian.html (674 words)

	New Guinea Singing Dog Puppies for Sale, New Guinea Singing Dog Breeders
		Locate dogs for sale, puppies for sale, dog breeders, and more.
		A breed of wild origins, these dogs are small to medium sized with a fox-like appearance.
		state location of the dog breeders is listed next to their classified ads.
	pets4you.com /newguinea.html (266 words)

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