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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged African wild dog, Lycaon pictus | 19 Comments

19 Responses

1. on October 13, 2012 at 2:05 am | Reply ragingbulldogges

   I think someone’s pulling yer leg, no way that’s a AWD, if by that you mean Lycaon pictus.

   
   
   • on October 13, 2012 at 2:08 am | Reply retrieverman

     Who is to say that I’m not the leg puller? :)

     
     
     • on October 13, 2012 at 1:14 pm | Reply countrymae

       It would seem to me the name sake blogger could be pointing this very subject matter that is being discussed regarding the high rate of American vs. English Retrievers stricken with cancer and the breeding standard differences between English Cream and American Cream? Gorious nearly white Retriever but look at the differences in muzzle and eye set just for starters. What color is her nose and eye rims?

       http://www.recherchegoldens.com/theenglishgolden.html

       
       
2. on October 13, 2012 at 5:02 am | Reply bearcoatpei

   I hear they’ve reclassified these albino African Hunting Dogs into their very own unique clade as ‘retrievermanii twaddlius’.

   
   
3. on October 13, 2012 at 8:09 am | Reply Franko

   To me he looks more like a pakistanese or an indian bull terrier(Gull terrier) but anyway you are the bloggers so….
   Regards

   
   
4. on October 13, 2012 at 9:23 am | Reply Miranda

   LOL, oh retrieverman. Even without being able to guestimate that it’s just a domestic Canis lupus, the “albino” gives it away. Anyone worth their salt (such as yourself) knows that an albino dog of any species wouldn’t have a dark nose on an otherwise white body.

   
   
   • on October 13, 2012 at 12:13 pm | Reply countrymae

     I do not see a dark nose or eye rims, lipss? http://www.mudicompass.org/nosepadrimcolor.html

     
     
     • on October 14, 2012 at 1:24 am | Reply Miranda

       The lips are pink, but the nose sure as hell isn’t. Can’t tell the exact color of the nose, but it’s definately got melanin in it. It certainly isn’t pale pink like the albino noses shown in the link you just supplied.

       
       
5. on October 13, 2012 at 9:54 am | Reply UrbanCollieChick

   You sly dog! ;)

   
   
6. on October 13, 2012 at 11:09 am | Reply kittenz

   Maybe it’s one of them thar Halloweenie dawgs

   
   
7. on October 13, 2012 at 11:56 am | Reply countrymae

   Sly dog indeed understanding the difference between a cream, white and albino and one with dark nose is clearly described in this Study.
   http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/content/98/5/544.full

   
   
8. on October 13, 2012 at 1:34 pm | Reply Kathy K

   Just for the record: Lycaon has only 4 front toes and has rounded ears.

   
   
9. on October 13, 2012 at 2:23 pm | Reply raeganw

   I would never own one, but they still hit a lot of my aesthetic preferences. I wonder how long it would take to get prick ears on a Toller?

   
   
10. on October 13, 2012 at 2:59 pm | Reply Anna

    Gull Terr.

    
    
11. on October 13, 2012 at 4:58 pm | Reply Hoyden

    He has a pretty collar on :-)

    
    
12. on October 14, 2012 at 2:04 am | Reply ragingbulldogges

    It’s a great looking dog, tho!

    
    
13. on October 14, 2012 at 2:23 am | Reply Suhail

    I could be wrong (I have confused a Maremma with my Kuvasz before), but this appears very much to be Pakistani Bull Terrier / Gull Terr (Hinks Bull Terrier). Please see here:

    People are speaking Pushto, which is spoken in northwestern and western Pakistan and in eastern Afghanistan.

    Here is a younger Gull Terr:

    
    
    • on October 14, 2012 at 8:45 am | Reply retrieverman

      You do know this was a joke, right?

      I was looking at the puppies of this breed, and they look a lot like Ren from Ren and Stimpy.

      
      
      • on October 14, 2012 at 10:48 pm | Reply Suhail

        At least I knew it for sure Scottie :-) I know your knowledge base. I can’t afford to be underestimating you.

        
        

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