Northern Inuit Dog

The Northern Inuit Dog is a breed of dog developed from a 1980s breeding project in the United Kingdom with the objective of producing a dog breed that resembles wolves.[1][2] Northern Inuit Dogs descend from dogs of unknown breed ancestry imported from North America that were crossed with Alaskan Malamutes, German Shepherds, Siberian Huskies and possibly Samoyeds, the intention of the breeding project was to create a dog of wolf-like appearance that could be kept as a companion dog and that could also be trained for other tasks.[2]

Northern Inuit Dog
OriginUnited Kingdom
Breed statusNot recognised by any major kennel club.
Dog (domestic dog)

Northern Inuit Dogs were used in the filming of the television series Game of Thrones to portray dire wolves.[1]

The Northern Inuit Dog breeding project subsequently split into a number of breed lines, including the Tamaskan dog, British Timber dog and the Utonagan.[2]

References
  1. Sorenson, John; Matsuoka, Atsuko (2019). Dog's best friend?: rethinking canid-human relations. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University. ISBN 978-0-7735-5905-9.
  2. Stavinohova, Renata; Hartley, Claudia; Burmeister, Louise M.; Ricketts, Sally L.; Pettitt, Louise; Tetas Pont, Roser; Hitti, Rebekkah J.; Schofield, Ellen; Oliver, James A. C.; Mellersh, Cathryn S. (2019). "Clinical, histopathological and genetic characterisation of oculoskeletal dysplasia in the Northern Inuit Dog". PLOS One. 14 (8): e0220761. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220761. PMC 6695176. PMID 31415586.
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