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December 2011, The Fan Hitch, all rights reserved
revised: January 2014 A. The Inuit Dog’s
place in the natural world
B. The Inuit Dog is not a wolf! C. Dangerous confusion A. The Name Controversy
B. Defining 'Purity' C. Mistaken Identity: Promoting a breed vs. avoiding extinction D. The Belyaev Experiment E. Summary A. Ancient
history
B. Recent history: The Inuit Dog in service to nations 1. Exploration
2. War 3. Sovereignty C. Population decline
A. In the North
B. Below the tree line A. Inherited diseases
B. Disease prevention and access to veterinary services A. Appearance
VII. The Inuit Dog in
Scientific Research, Films and inB. Behavior C. Performance D. The big picture VIII. Acknowledgements Appendix 1: Partial list of scientific publications about the Inuit Dog Appendix 2: Selected (alphabetical) list of other resources with a focus on Inuit Dogs Appendix 3: A small sampling of other resources of interest Navigating This Site Index of articles by subject Index of back issues by volume number Search The Fan Hitch Articles to download and print Defining the Inuit Dog Ordering Ken MacRury's Thesis Our comprehensive list of resources About The Fan Hitch Talk to The Fan Hitch The Fan Hitch home page
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![]() Photo: Nadine Gerth reproduced with permission of The Company of Biologists Appendix 1: Partial list
of scientific publications about the Inuit Dog
The Inuit Dog: Its Provenance, Environment and History A bibliography of scientific papers about the Inuit Dog taken from references in Ken MacRury’s masters thesis can be found here. Originally appearing in the British Antarctic Survey Bulletins as well as Polar Record many of these papers (some of which are listed in the MacRury masters thesis), have appeared in The Fan Hitch: Veterinary
Studies on the British Antarctic Survey's Sledge Dogs:
I. Survey of Diseases and Accidents
A.R.M. Bellars, British Antarctic Survey Bulletin, Number 21, 1969 Veterinary Studies on the British Antarctic Survey's Sledge Dogs: II. Occupational Osteoarthritis A.R.M. Bellars and M. F. Godsal British Antarctic Survey Bulletin, Number 22, 1969, pp. 15-38 Ancient DNA evidence for genetic continuity in arctic dogs Sarah K. Brown et. al. Pre-Columbian origins for Native American dog breeds, with only limited replacement by European dogs, confirmed by mtDNA analysis Peter Savolainen et. al. The Physiology Of Sledge Dogs by R.J.F. TAYLOR Polar Record 8 (55): 317-321, January 1957 The Breeding and Maintenance of Sledge Dogs: Part I R. J. F. TAYLOR The Polar Record, Vol. 8, No. 56. (1957) The Breeding and Maintenance of Sledge Dogs: Part II by R. J. F. TAYLOR The Polar Record, Vol. 8, No. 56 (1957). Further Experiments on the nutrition of sledge dogs H. T. Wyatt (British Journal of Nutrition (1963), 17, 273) Avl ved slaedepatruljen SIRIUS |