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{{Short description|Endangered Korean dog breed}}
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|hangul=제주개
|hanja=濟州犬
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The '''Jeju Dog''' ({{Korean|hangul=제주개}})
In 2010, [[Korea]] designated the Jeju Dog as a national heritage animal, which will allow for subsequent national protection. Before this, not enough animals remained to allow for such a distinction.
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The dog is considered the largest dog breed indigenous to Korea.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpurebreddogday.com/jeju-dog/|title=The Jeju Dog|date=2016-09-30|work=National Purebred Dog Day®|access-date=2018-08-06|language=en-US}}</ref> The dog breed is usually 49–55 centimeter long, 12–16 kilogram in weight and has an average lifespan of 15 years.<ref name="hq">[http://news.donga.com/Society/Region/3/0302/20100816/30530608/1 사냥에 쓰이다 일제때 공출,진돗개와 달리 꼬리 세워, 현재 81마리… 연내 두배로]</ref> Jeju Dogs have wide and pointed foreheads. In many ways, the females look like [[fox]]es in terms of their length and width, while the males look almost identical to [[wolves]]. They are also similar to the [[Korean Jindo]] Dogs in terms of color and size. The primary difference being that Jeju Dogs have tails that are pointed up like brooms. They have tawny brown hair.
==History==
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Jeju dogs may have originated in [[China]], moved south along the peninsula, and came to Jeju Island. Who brought the animals to the island and what their original purpose was are unclear. Moreover, when Jeju Dogs were brought to South Korea, they became military dogs, and when no longer military, people often ate them, which is the primary cause of the breed being endangered. Some sources cite how the Japanese during the [[Korea under Japanese rule|Korean colonization]] ordered the slaughter of dogs indigenous to Korea and contributed to the near-extinction of the breed.<ref name=":1" />{{unreliable source|reason=website, no author, no references|date=January 2021}}
==See also==
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