I’m going to share with you about some of my favorite dog breeds.
1 Mal-Shi
The picture at the very top, is my dog Harry, who was a Mal-Shi. Harry was a good friend to me. He was such a good boy, and I enjoyed cuddling with him. He slept with my brother in his bed. He spent all the day with us while we were home schooling. Many times, he sat on one of our laps, while my mom taught us. Sometimes he even ended up right in the middle of our school lessons, accidentally wiping away things on the dry erase board with his tail.
When he was about 14, my mom wanted to see if you could teach an old dog new tricks. My brother Isaac helped train him to learn to speak. So you can teach an old dog new tricks! It was funny, he learned to speak, but in his own way. He would sneeze once or twice, or growl. He would walk around our home, doing a sneeze, especially when we opened the refrigerator door.
Another good memory I have of Harry is when my family and I arrived back home, we could hear him barking in excitement before the door was fully opened!
Mal-Shies were bred to be lap dogs, small, and easy to train. This breed of domestic dog was developed in Australia, in 1990, when a Maltese and Shih Tzu reproduced with one another, to create the Mal-Shi. The average lifespan of a Mal-Shi is 12 to 15 years. Harry lived to be 17! I wonder if he broke the record.
Evolutionists believe a crazy thing, that dogs and cats were once related to a common ancestor. There is no way that dogs and cats are related to one another. God created dogs to be dogs, and cats to be cats, like He said in Genesis Chapter 1.
Harry was an amazing companion. He also is a great reminder of God and how He creates every animal according to their kind.
2 Bloodhound
The Bloodhound, was originally bred to hunt down game animals. They hunted wild boar and deer. Since the middle ages, they have been used to track down people. Some of you might be asking, how powerful is the Bloodhound’s nose? Some Bloodhounds can track a scented trail up to 130 miles. God designed the inside of the Bloodhound’s nose with about 230 million olfactory cells (or scent receptors). That’s 40 times the number in people. The Bloodhound’s ears also act as scent sweepers, able to drag on the ground and sweep scents into it’s nose! Amazing! It’s wrinkly skin also traps scents. How radical is that!? For 200 years, Bloodhounds have been used by law enforcements to track down missing people.
3 Border Collie
One of my other favorite dog breeds is the Border Collie. They’ve been bred to herd livestock and compete in a variety of dog sports (disc dog, dog obedience, or dog agility). They are the most intelligent domestic dog breed in the world! They are used all around the world for livestock herding and are kept as pets. My friend’s dog is a short haired Border Collie. We are very close. We play fetch, wrestle, chase each other around, and bark and howl with each other. I think a Border Collie can be a great dog to have because when they are trained well they are very eager to obey, and are highly intelligent.
4 Salish Wool Dog
The Salish Wool Dog is an extinct breed. It was developed and bred by the Coast Salish peoples of what is known today as Washington State and British Columbia. These dogs were kept in packs of about 20. They were fed raw and cooked salmon. They are described as small, long-haired and having a fox like face. The Coast Salish’s main reason for breeding them, was to use their wool, and weave it into clothing and blankets. Just like how people use sheep wool today. That’s very radical!
The Salish people wanted to keep the dogs true to type (not allowing them to mix with other breeds). In order to do this, and protect the preferred white color, the Wool Dogs were confined on islands and in gated caves. When Europeans arrived in America with sheep, the Wool Dog fur became less popular. Sheep wool was less expensive and easier to use to make blankets. Eventually wool dog fur was out of use.
Europeans also brought their own dog breeds, that bred with the Wool Dogs and decimated the latter population. This is what brought the Wool Dogs to extinction. The last known descendants of the Wool Dog breed passed away in 1940. And so, the wool dog has been extinct for around 80 years.
5 Sakhalin Husky
The Sakhalin Husky, is a breed of dog that originated on the island of Sakhalin, in between Russia and Japan. The breed was primarily used as a sled dog, however, they were also used to hunt bears.
One of the reasons why this breed went extinct, was the fact that they were too expensive to keep, eating up to 4,000 tons of salmon a year. The breed started to quickly decline in the 1930’s. Breeding was not encouraged, and they began to die off. Experts agree the Sakhalin Husky went extinct in 2012.
the “hero dogs!”
One amazing true story about this Sakhalin breed, comes from the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, in 1957-1958. A few men from Japan traveled across Antarctica, to do scientific studies on the continent. They traveled around on the ice and snow by a dog sled team of 15 Sakhalin Huskies. In February of 1958, the research team had to do an emergency evacuation, due to brutal weather conditions.
A couple of the men were desperate to find a way to bring all the dogs with them. However, they were forced to leave the dogs behind. As others believed it was impossible, too dangerous, and necessary to air lift the team of men out immediately. The dogs were left chained with a few days worth of food. The men hoped and planned they would return soon to rescue them all. Sadly, there was not a way provided for them to return quickly.
It would be almost a year later, before these two passionate men, who loved their dogs, could return in hopes that somehow they were alive.
It was Spring 1959, when these researchers returned to their Antarctic base. To their sadness, they found seven of the dogs had died in their chains. Six of them disappeared. However, two of them, named Taro and Jiro survived almost a year on Antarctica! The researchers were filled with joy and amazed at these hero dogs.
It seems, the six dogs, along with Taro and Jiro, who had all escaped from their chains, hunted and survived for a time together. They must have adapted and went into their God-given survival instinct. Quite possibly, they hunted penguins, seals, frozen fish in the ice, and other wildlife to stay alive.
It is very sad that most of the dogs the men loved, did not survive, but it is a miracle from the Lord that the two husky brothers (Taro and Jiro) survived through their God given adaptation.
Gospel Lesson
My dog Harry and all other dog breeds are just another way in which God shows how loving and powerful He is. Each breed of dog has it’s own way of helping man.
Dogs are also a small example of evidence of what the Lord told the animals to do in the beginning of creation. To reproduce “After their kind”. Evolutionists believe that dogs and cats were both linked to a common ancestor or a transitional form (in between cats and dogs) millions of years ago. The bible clearly states that the earth is only thousands of years old (not millions).
Of course, cats and dogs can’t make dats and cogs. Dogs are dogs, and cats are cats, just like what the Word of God says.
Think about it.
If evolution is true, that death existed before the fall of man, then death wasn’t the result of sin. And if death wasn’t the result of sin, then Jesus’ death on the cross couldn’t pay the penalty for sin, and if it isn’t paid, then we would all be lost in sin forever.
But the truth is, death is the result of sin. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden, sin and death came into the world and passed onto all people. God was gracious to cover Adam and Eve’s sin and shame, through sacrificial death of an animal. He clothed them with the animal skins.
In God’s great plan, Jesus, is the Sacrificial Lamb to save us from our sins, cover us with a robe of righteousness. He came into this world, born of a virgin. He preached the good news to the world, died on the cross, and rose to life from the tomb, victory over death. He ascended into heaven, where He is building a place for those who believe in Him.
He is Creator from the beginning, and Lord forevermore.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast”. Ephesians 2:8-9
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me”. John 14:6
This is maximus adventures, over and out!
