📊Group | 📌 |
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📊Utilization | Sledge dog |
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✨Appearance | A medium-sized dog with well balanced and well developed clean cut muscles. It has pricked ears and a curled or sickle tail. Conformation: strong, well-boned and compact. |
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🌐Country of origin | United states of america |
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⌛Lifespan, years | 12 - 14 |
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📏Height | 50 cm - 60 cm |
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⚖Weight | 16 kg - 27 kg |
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🌡Temperament | A dog of marked endurance, keen in sense with a naive feeling, energetic and highly alert; an enthusiastic hunter; docile towards his master. |
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📜History | This breed goes back to medium-sized dogs that existed in Japan in ancient times. The Shikoku was bred as a hunting dog, mainly for hunting boar in the mountainous districts of Kochi Prefecture. It is sometimes called « Kochi-ken » (ken = dog). There were three varieties of this breed - Awa, Hongawa and Hata - all named after the area where they were bred. Among them, the Hongawa maintained the highest degree of purity, because the breeding area was not easily accessible. |
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