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b'Sign up for our mailing list!\\n\\nLet\'s learn about some strange dog breeds (including a mystery dog!) and what may be the cutest frog\\xa0ever.\\xa0Thanks to Brad and Dan for their suggestions this week, and a special thanks to Richard from NC for suggesting the Carolina dog at just the right time.\\n\\nCheck out Dan\'s podcast,\\xa0"Sure, Jan!"\\n\\nFurther viewing:\\n\\nWorld\'s Cutest Frog - Desert Rain Frog\\n\\nA talbot dog from the olden days:\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Xoloitzcuintli dog:\\n\\n\\n\\nNorwegian lundehund hard at work:\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Norwegian lundehund has lots of toes:\\n\\n\\n\\nDOUBLE NOSE DOGGO (Pach\\xf3n Navarro):\\n\\n\\n\\nANOTHER DOUBLE NOSE DOGGO (Tarsus Catalburun):\\n\\n\\n\\nThe Carolina dog:\\n\\n\\n\\nThe desert rain frog, round boi:\\n\\n\\n\\nShow transcript:\\n\\nWelcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I\\u2019m your host, Kate Shaw.\\n\\nA few weeks ago I got to meet two listeners, Brad and Dan. We met for coffee and had a great time talking about animals and podcasting and lots of other things. Dan is a podcaster too, cohost of a great show called \\u201cSure, Jan!\\u201d which discusses musical theater in detail with a lot of insight and humor. There\\u2019s some language not appropriate for kids, but honestly, any kid who\\u2019s so into musical theater that they\\u2019re listening to a three-part deep dive into \\u201cEverybody\\u2019s Talking About Jamie,\\u201d they can handle a few bad words. There\\u2019s a link in the show notes if you want to check it out.\\n\\nBrad and Dan both gave me topic suggestions, so this is their episode!\\n\\nWe\\u2019ll start with Brad\\u2019s suggestion about strange dog breeds. We actually covered this topic a few years ago in a Patreon episode, so Patreon subscribers may recognize a lot of this information, but I\\u2019ve done some additional research and added to it.\\n\\nThere are a lot more dog breeds out there than most people know, many of them very rare and restricted to particular regions of the world. Often they were bred for specific purposes, sometimes purposes that no longer exist. This is the case for the turnspit dog. It was a short-legged dog that was bred to run on what was called a dog wheel. The dog wheel looked like a big hamster wheel and turned the spit, a metal rod suspended over the fire that a big piece of meat was stuck onto. The dog ran in the wheel, which turned it, which turned the cord attached to the spit, which turned the spit, which meant the meat cooked evenly instead of staying raw on one side and burning on the other. Usually a household had two turnspit dogs so one could rest while the other took a turn running in the wheel. Once better technology was invented to cook meat, the turnspit dogs were out of a job and eventually stopped being bred. They\\u2019re now an extinct breed.\\n\\nAnother extinct dog breed is the Talbot hound. It was a large, relatively slow and heavy hound with white or pale-colored fur, popular in Europe for hundreds of years as a hunting dog. It appears on many coats of arms. It was less of a breed than a type of dog, with many large hounds being referred to as talbots as far back as the 15th century and Talbot being a common name for a hound in the 14th century and possibly earlier. By the 17th century it was more of a standardized breed, resembling a white or light-colored bloodhound in appearance with a tail that curled upward. But by the 19th century it had gone extinct. It might have been the ancestor of the modern beagle.\\n\\nMany dog breeds aren\\u2019t all that old, only dating back to roughly the early 19th century. In the Victorian era in Britain, people got really interested in recreating dog breeds from antiquity, so some breeds that people think date back to antiquity were actually developed just a few hundred years ago. But there are some breeds that genuinely have been around and more or less unchanged for a really long time.\\n\\nThe Xoloitzcuintli (sho-lo-eets-quint-lee) or Xolo is a rare breed of dog that was originally bred by the Aztecs and dates back more than 3,500 years. It\\u2019s a hairless dog, although many actually do have a full coat.'