Canaan Dog
Canaan dog. picture by Yigal Parado http://www.pardo.co.il
Alternative names
Kelef K'naani
Country of origin
Israel
Classification and breed standards
FCI: Group 5 Section 6 #273 Std AKC: Herding Std ANKC: Group 7 (Nonsporting) Std CKC: Group 3 (Working Dogs) Std KC(UK): Utility Std NZKC: Nonsporting Std UKC: Groupname Std

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Appearance

The Canaan Dog comes in more colors than almost all other registered breeds. Its shape, body type, and size can vary widely, but the dogs are generally of medium size and often black and white. Other possible colors include tan, golden, or cream. Their bodies are generally lean with a distinctive shape. Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ... White is a color (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... Tan can mean several things: tan is shorthand in mathematics for the tangent trigonometric function. ... Golden is the name of some places in the United States of America: Golden, Colorado Golden, Missouri There is also: Golden, British Columbia in Canada Golden is also a commonly used nickname for the Golden Retriever breed of dog. ... See also List of colors Categories: Stub | Colors ...

Males are distinctly masculine with coarse hair, while bitches are expected to be feminine, without over refinement. Look up Bitch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A bitch is a female dog or other member of the canidae family. ...

Measurements

• Height: 19-24 inches (48-61 cm)
• Weight: 37-57 pounds (16-25 kg)

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Temperament

Canaan Dogs make good house pets. When treated kindly, the dogs work hard and are not aggressive. Extremely intelligent and good at problem solving, these dogs are very useful even in today's society. The breed is loyal and loving.

History

The Canaan Dog began in ancient times as a pariah dog in the area now known as Israel. This dog is one of the oldest, dating back to biblical times. A pariah dog originally referred to the feral population of dogs in India, but has come to refer to any population of feral dogs who live around human villages, scavenging for food and seldom interacting directly with humans. ... The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the classical name for the Hebrew Bible of Judaism or the combination of the Old Testament and New Testament of Christianity (The Bible therefore actually refers to at least...

The Canaan Dog was the guard and herd dog of the ancient Israelites, guarding their camps and flocks. They were plentiful in the region until the dispersion of the Israelites by the Romans more than 2,000 years ago. As the Hebrew population dropped, the majority of the dogs sought refuge in the Negev Desert, a natural reservoir of Israeli wildlife. Avoiding extinction, they remained undomesticated for the most part, although some lived with the Bedouins and earned their keep by guarding the herds and camps. Some were also guards for the Druze on Mount Carmel. The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... The Negev (נגב, Standard Hebrew Négev / Nágev, Tiberian Hebrew Néḡeḇ / Nāḡeḇ; Arabic النقب an-Naqab) is the desert region of southern Israel. ... Bedouin resting at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic badawi بدوي, a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev to the eastern coast of the Arabian desert. ... The Druze (Arabic: duruzÄ« درزي, pl. ... Mount Carmel is a coastal mountain in Israel overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. ...

They survived this way until Dr. Rudolphina Menzel came up with the idea to use these intelligent scavenger dogs mainly found in the desert, as guard dogs for the scattered Jewish settlements. She initiated a selective breeding program to produce the breed known today as the Canaan Dog. Doctor means teacher in Latin. ... Harvestman eating the tail of a five-lined skink The word scavenger, in zoology, refers to animals that consume already dead organic life-forms. ... A dune in the Egyptian desert In geography, a desert is a landscape form or region that receives little precipitation - less than 250 mm per year. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

Canaan Dogs in the U.S.

On September 7, 1965, Ursula Berkowitz of Oxnard, California, imported the first four Canaan Dogs with the idea of establishing the breed in the United States. The Canaan Dog Club of America was formed the same year, and stud book records were kept from these first reports. September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Oxnard as seen from Spanish Hills, with crops in foreground and shoreline in background Skyline of Oxnard. ...

In June 1989, the Canaan Dog entered the American Kennel Club Miscellaneous Class and dogs were registered in the AKC Stud Book as of June 1, 1997. The dogs began competing in conformation on August 12, 1997. June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The American Kennel Club (or AKC) is the largest registry of purebred dog pedigrees in the United States. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...