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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2744682, member: 75937&quot;]There&#039;s a great deal of apocrypha about origin of dog breeds. Supposedly Rottweilers were the &quot;ancient cart dogs of Rome&quot; but there&#039;s really no proof; rather it was an assumption based on where they were common when Europeans started writing down such observations. Sometimes even a history that was &quot;never in doubt&quot; is disproved by DNA studies, such as were done on Pharaoh and Ibizan Hounds -- turns out they&#039;re not 5000 year old breeds after all, but rather are relatively modern recreations of an ancient type, probably only a few hundred years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]627264[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>What sort of breed is this? The mosaic appears to be one of the basic herding/pursuit landrace types (ie. a type that naturally develops in response to local conditions and demands of work) which today we might call a Border Collie.</p><p><br /></p><p>But is it a border collie? No, not according to the modern breed standard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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