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The explorer Christopher Columbus wrote a letter to the King of Spain that spoke of a dog he had encountered on the island that is now Cuba. In this letter he described a “small kind of dog that seems mute as it doesn’t bark as usual.” He then went on to tell the king that the dog was domesticated.
The dog Columbus wrote about was an ancestor of the present day Chihuahua called the “Techichi.” Scholars and archeologists have been able to date the Techichi as far back as the Toltec... Read More