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picture | physical traits | colors | personality/ temperament | maintenance/ special needs | nickname | origination | height | weight | ideal for | good with kids? | interesting facts | lifespan | hair type |
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| New Guinea Singing Dog |  | - small to medium - prick eared - curled tail - fox-like - agile - graceful. joints and spine are extremely flexible. carnassial tooth (second lower molar) 10% larger than domestic dogs. powerful climbers. climbs and jumps like a cat. eyes more | - golden red or black and tan with white markings on the underside of chin - feet and tail tip. some may also have white on face - chest and neck. born chocolate brown and lightens to red or sandy color | - active - lively - alert - inquisitive - curious - gentle - affectionate with early socialization - develops attachments with their human pack members and become distressed if separated but do not have emotional dependence of domestic dogs | - not recommended as housepets as the combination of prey drive - high intelligence and flexible body makes it difficult to keep them from adventuring off. escape artists that are very fast making it almost impossible to recapture them. intense hunting | - Canis Hallstromi - Singers | Island of Papua, New Guinea, possibly since the Stone Age. discovered in 1957 where two were captured and put into a zoo. considered a feral wild sub-species of domestic dog along with Australian Dingo | 14~18 (inch) | 20~30 (lbs) | - hunting - (for their own interest) - in very steep - thickly vegetated terrain | not recommended as housepets | - when one begins to 'sing' others will sing along with their own unique and different pitch. have been kept as zoo animals. considered a 'living fossil' due to its at least 6 - 000 year existence in isolation. | 16~20 (year) | - short - straight - medium texture - crisp to the touch with very dense felt-like undercoat in cold season. blow their coats twice a year |
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