babyfied wolves.

These are stages of arrested development in dogs, resulting in basic forms of dogs like:

1. MOLOSSERS: flockbonders, bulldogs, pit bulls.

Cusp breed: draw terriers, rocky terriers.

2. TERRIERS: bolt terriers.

Cusp breed: dash terriers, rat terriers, feist.

3. SPRINTHUNDS: all whippets, greyhounds, etc.

Cusp breed: staghund, wolfhunds, boarhunds.

4. TRACKING HOUNDS: tree hounds, pack hounds, water hounds

5. BIRD DOGS: water dogs, spaniels, retrievers, pointing dogs.

Cusp breed: duck tollers

6. TOLLERS: all tollers

7. HERDING DOGS: heelers, herders.

8. SNOWDOGS: northern hunting dogs, northern sled dogs.

9. NATURAL DOGS: dingos, pariah dogs, etc

10. NATURE'S DOGS: wolves, coyotes, jackals, etc.

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These are biological differences, not like separating, setters by color or country of origin, or separating them from other pointing breeds.

Many "breeds" are really varieties of dogs for one task, separating them hurts the gene pool.

Today were need to group dogs by their professions, like: child's pet, sniffer dog, police dog, guide dog, etc, not by historical use, and have open registries.

Most dogs bought today in America are bought as pets, it makes no sense to breed dogs for task we don't use them for.

Turnspitz dogs went extinct when people did not need them anymore. It is like hanging onto every piece of clothing you ever wore, every car you have ever had, and keeping every unuseable piece of equipment you ever had. Soon you have 1 lawn mower that works and 3 that don't, 2 TVs that work and 4 that don't, and so on.

The breeds NEED to evolve, not be preserved!
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