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Originally Posted by leashedForLife
hey, ziggy! :--)
hairless breeds are not so much an Equatorial design - they have appeared several times, in various places, and i *think* are another sport, which would not have been successful in village dogs or pariahs; all of the breeds that have developed hairlessness were already highly-domesticated and lived in homes, not at large.
the most-recent instance of hairlessness was a sport in American smooth Fox-Terriers, which was in a temperate climate,
--- terry
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When I said barely coated dogs, I was talking about dogs with very short coats (and usually a leggy light frame that disperses heat well) like Pharoahs. If I had meant hairless dogs, I would have written hairless dogs!