Live Life Team
The New Guinea Singing Dog is a very ancient breed. They are primitive in nature and have not been created by combining other breeds. Rather, they are a direct descendent of the Australian Dingo. They have been living in the wild on the island of New Guinea for almost 6000 years. It is very rare to find them in the wild now, and they are assumed to be an extinct wild breed. Domesticated New Guinea Singing Dogs are still around, although there are no more than 200 left in existence. They have been classified as vulnerable and threatened, meaning that they are in dangere of extinction.
New Guinea Singing Dogs are also known as the New Guinea Highland Dog or Singers for short. They are referred to as Singing Dogs because of the howling noise that they regularly make. The sound is similar to the howl of a wolf, although they use different pitches in their song.
Since they are descendents of Dingoes, New Guinea Singing Dogs look similarly to their ancestors. They are a medium sized dog breed with thin limbs and lean muscles and look similar to a fox. They average a weight between 8 and 14 kilograms. They have shorter legs than an average Dingo, and have a height between 36 and 46 centimetres.
New Guinea Singing Dogs are seen as a pariah breed. This means that they are generally wild in nature. While they can be trained, they still have unruly tendencies. In the wild, they don’t form a pack and will roam on their own or in a pair.
