As you should know most purebred dogs today were made up of other pure bred dogs and putting them together etc. etc.-NOT important to my question
What I want to know is if the shiba inu is made up of other breeds or if it is it’s own breed. I cant seem to find information on that. All I can find is that they have been around for a long time and are one of the oldest breeds around.
Shed some light?
This is a very interesting but long article how they evolved
http://www.shiba-dog.de/shiba-klub/urtyp-en.htm
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I can’t seem to find anything either.
Which leeds me to think that they were probably created from ‘mongrels’- dogs that had no breed name. Or that the breeds they were created from are now extinct.
Though this breed has been around since 700BC so it’s unlikely anyone made any record of it’s ancestry.
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This is a very interesting but long article how they evolved
http://www.shiba-dog.de/shiba-klub/urtyp-en.htm
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I found this on google
Originally, the Shiba Inu was bred to hunt and flush small game, such as birds and rabbits. Despite efforts to preserve the breed, the Shiba nearly became extinct during World War II due to a combination of bombing raids and a post-war distemper epidemic.All subsequent dogs were bred from the only three surviving bloodlinesThese bloodlines were the Shinshu Shiba from Nagano Prefecture, the Mino Shiba from Gifu Prefecture, and the San’in Shiba from Tottori and Shimane Prefectures. The Shinshu Shibas possessed a solid undercoat, with dense layer of guard-hairs, and were small and red in color. The Mino Shibas tended to have thick, prick ears, and possessed a sickle tail, rather than the common curled tail found on most modern Shibas. The San’in Shibas were larger than most modern shibas, and tended to be black, without the common tan and white accents found on modern black-and-tan shibas. When the study of japanese dogs was formalized in the early and mid-twentieth century, these three strains were combined into one overall breed, the Shiba Inu. The first Japanese breed standard for the Shiba, the Nippo Standard, was published in 1934. In December 1936, the Shiba Inu was recognized as a Natural Monument of Japan through the Cultural Properties Act, largely due to the efforts of Nippo (Nihon Ken Hozonkai), the Association for the Preservation of the Japanese Dog.
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A Shiba Inu is short for the Japanese Shiba Inu. A Shiba Inu is a pure bred dog…
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Wikipedia