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Today, the world is a melting pot of dog breeds. You are just
as likely to see an akita trotting out of a Manhattan
apartment as out of a house in the Honshu region of Japan,
where the breed's ancestors developed bear-hunting traits
hundreds of years ago. While the majority of dog owners
worldwide no longer choose their canine pets on the basis of
what the dogs were bred to do, all of the roughly 450
recognized breeds are, in one way or another, descended from
dog types that date back thousands of years to the beginning
of their domestication.
In this interactive game, see if you can match modern dog
breeds with the country or region where their forebears arose.
As you'll see, while many of the dogs we know and love have an
impressively long lineage, others are younger, owing their
existence to the tinkering of breeders over just the last
century or two. To begin the interactive, click on the image
at left.—Lexi Krock
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