to byb: thanks
-- but 100% of the compliment goes to rav lipman. I merely forwarded your interesting inquiry.
to dr. bill:
Keiva's note to self: read the durn url before posting it. The url is a very short summary of the article, but you'll find more by clicking the sources the url lists. They show that these dogs are about the size of a lab (not small).
The "feral" issue not what I'd recollected. The theory is that the Carolina Yellow Dog "breed" is
not modern breeds gone feral, but is rather a direct descendant of the dogs brought by the earliest human to this continent; that is, of the peoples who crossed from Asia to North America over the Bering Sea land bridge.
Related question to our Kiwis and Aussies: roughly when, according to the latest data, did the first (aboriginal) humans reach your respective islands?
