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Only in the 21st century did the dogs begin to shed the “mutt” image because of 2 dog experts who studied dogs they encountered in rural KwaZulu-Natal kraals and homesteads. One of them gave the breed its name based on the Latin for dog – “canis,” and the dog’s place of origin, Africa.

They concluded that the dogs were not a “stew” of common mutts, but dogs with a distinct and consistent set of characteristics and behaviours. In other words, a breed