Balinese Dingo Dog

Similar to the Bali Street Dog Australian Dingoes are active participants within cultural ceremonies. The Bali street dog and Kintamani dog were most closely aligned with the Australian dingo and distantly related to AKC recognized breeds of Asian but not European origin.

Genetic Parallels The Bali Street Dog

Dog Dreaming sites are found throughout remote Australia.

Balinese dingo dog. Stumbling down a dirt track to her house the scent of frangipani wafting overhead we are greeted by a pack of incessantly smiling barking Bali dogs a crossbreed of Asian Dingo Kelpie and Blue Healer. About 7000 years ago the dog of today was born in Southeast Asia. The Australian Dingo holds strong cultural connection with Australias Indigenous people.

They have very mobile small and rounded ears which are naturally erect. Scientists at the University of California Davis UCL Davis genetic laboratory who took blood samples from Balis street dogs concluded that the Bali dog is the oldest breed of dog known to man. Bali Dogs are intelligent alert and friendly although slightly conservative.

The Bali Street Dog and its role within Balinese culture are covered on other pages on the website. Dingo dogs have intense eyes that very in color from yellow to orange. The Dingo Indochina is a mid-sized breed of dog that stands weighs between 26-44 pounds and stands between 15-20 inches tall.

They harbor very high genetic diversity as opposed to the dingo and New Guinea Singing Dog which are some of the least diverse dog populations on earth. That means the Bali Dog is older than the Australian Dingo the New Guinea singing dog and the African wild dog. A Bali dog loves to roam freely and socialize with others and people.

Though genetically related to the Australian Dingo Chow Chow and Akita the Bali dog is unique. Other pariah dogs with similar phenotypes eg light tan coloration exist in India Phillipines and Southeast Asia but these may have evolved convergently with the dingo. It spread rapidly to replace earlier proto-dogs and become the unique indigenous dog of Bali Australia dingo and other regions and eventually giving rise to the Kintamani saluki chow chow Akita and basenji and other indigenous breeds.

The breed has short fur that usually comes in shades of black or yellow. Following the recent eliminations of fall 2015 there are now only an estimated 100000 pure Bali dogs on the island. Puja Irion Schaffer Pedersen 2005.

The Bali heritage dog has lived on the island in its pure form for at least 2500 years possibly much longer and the Kintamani probably evolved as a sub-type. The Bali dogs DNA is a mixture of Australian Dingo Chow-Chow originally from northern China and. The breed has faced a lot of challenges including animal cruelty illegal meat trade interbreeding and mass culling.

Some scholars feel that the dingo the iconic Australian wild dog is in fact the descendent of semi-domesticated village dogs that went feral after arriving in Australia making them a subspecies of semi-domesticated dogs see Clutton-Brock 1999 1995 1977. If the dingo is neither a feralized domesticate. Dingo Dog Characteristics.

A young brown Dobermann stands with his feet against the fence rail his yellow eyes peering over the solid steel gate. Bali is home to two unique indigenous dogs the Bali heritage dog and the Highland Kintamani. The Bali Dog is indigenous to Bali.

This poses a nomenclatural problem. The skull is wedge-shaped and appears large in proportion to the body. Therefore the Kintamani dog has evolved from Balinese feral dogs with little loss of genetic diversity.

The bali street dog and kintamani dog were most closely aligned with the australian dingo more distantly related to akc recognized breeds of chinese origin and most distantly related to akc breeds from of western eurasia. The dogs currently alive in Southeast Asia such as Borneo Bali and Papua New Guinea show the impacts of these successive waves of migrations from mainland Southeast Asia. The Dingo dog is a medium sized dog that possesses a lean and hardy body.

At the start of the rabies outbreak in 2008 the dog population in Bali was estimated to be approximately 600000. They are smart and have a huge personality. The breed has large ears that stand erect on the top of the head and a fat round tail.

The two are apparently related to each other and Balinese street dogs also include the dingo-like mtDNA sequence although their variation is much higher than found in dingoes Irion et al. The Bali street dog and Kintamani dog were most closely aligned with the Australian dingo and distantly related to AKC recognized breeds of Asian but not European origin. Their DNA can be traced back 12000 years originating from the Australian Dingo and Asian Wolf.

Genetic Parallels The Bali Street Dog