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Open my wish list →The Shiba Inu is a hunting dog from Japan. Here are three true things about it.
The name Shiba Inu literally means 'brushwood dog'. It was bred to hunt and flush out small game, such as birds and rabbits.
SourceThe Shiba Inu is a small-to-medium dog. It is the smallest of the six original dog breeds native to Japan.
SourceThe Shiba Inu is an ancient Japanese breed that was once used as a hunter. Today it is the most popular companion dog in Japan.
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The Shiba Inu once almost disappeared. Crossing it with dogs brought from the West became popular, and from 1912 to 1926 almost no pure Shiba remained. From around 1928, hunters and scholars began to protect the pure Shibas that were left. In December 1936, the breed was recognised as a Natural Monument of Japan. It nearly vanished again during the Second World War. All the Shibas born after that come from the only three bloodlines that survived. The Shinshu Shibas were small and red. The Mino Shibas had thick, pricked-up ears and a sickle-shaped tail. The San'in Shibas were larger and tended to be black. The three were combined into one breed, the Shiba Inu.
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The Shiba Inu is an old kind of dog. It has been identified as a basal breed, which means it comes from before the modern breeds that appeared in the 19th century. Long ago, in the prehistoric Jōmon period, people in Japan made figures called dogū, and some show dogs that look like the Shiba Inu. The Shiba lived in the mountains of the Chūbu region, where it was bred to hunt. Its coat is double: a stiff top coat over a soft, plush undercoat. Its usual colours are red, sesame, and black and tan, all with a cream to white underside called urajiro, which means 'underside white'.
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