If you get one, you have to get them young and socialize them with your family. I was at a loss as to my dog's Seven's breed until I met a man at a gas station who has several of them. He ID'd my dog and when I looked at him like he was crazy (I had never heard the term Carolina Dog or American Dingo before), he called for his dogs and 3 of them sat up in the back of his Durango. They looked EXACTLY like Seven. We talked for a while and I told him about some of Seven's 'weirder' behaviors and he said that his dogs do that too.

He told me to check out www.carolinadogs.org for more info. Other than the looks and the behaviors he has, unfortunately (according to their website) I could never verify the breed because they requirements are so rigid, but his dogs matched mine down to body and head shape and the tail thing that the info is good enough for me.

I hope to have more of them when I move into a new place. They really are great companions.

You can also find info here . I'm working on videotaping him for my friend Amy (she hasn't seen him in over a year). If can get the file size small enough, I'll post a link. I just can't kill my bandwidth or Comcast will 404 my site.