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Does anyone have any idea what breed of dog Tobiah's dog might have been?

Referenced in Tobit 6 and Tobit 11

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I don't wnat to start a Catholic-vs-Protestant fight (espceially since I'm neither and, err, don't have a dog in that fight), but should this be tagged apocrypha instead of OT? (That's a question-question, not an advocacy-question.) – Monica Cellio Mar 23 '12 at 14:17
I agree, @MonicaCellio. – swasheck Mar 23 '12 at 15:37
I was just going to tag it book-of-tobit – Peter Turner Mar 23 '12 at 16:02
@PeterTurner, I've added a tobit tag (other books are just book-name, not "book of (name)", except for book-of-hebrews because there was some problem with havning both hebrew and hebrews). – Monica Cellio Mar 23 '12 at 16:06
@Monica hebrews is just hebrews now - that problem went away :-) – Jack Douglas♦ Mar 23 '12 at 17:19
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It was likely a Canaan dog, or rather its ancestor the desert pariah dog, which appears to be the only breed indigenous to that area.

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