TIL that all Native American dog breeds were wiped out by Eurasian dogs after the arrival of European settlers. Despite thriving on the continent for thousands of years, no pre-contact breeds survive today.

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I find that suspect

NA's usually didn't use dogs to the extent westerners/northerners did (hunting aids, companions) so there's be less incentive to breed them, and many of the central american states only used them as food sources

It's true the EARLY NA's shared a Siberian culture of dog companions, but I see no evidence there were large numbers of dogs later on

They didn't even use horses before euro settlers brought them

Furthermore a ton of species went extinct during the initial (NA) population of the Americas

https://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/extinction/Day1/overkill/Bit1.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20180913185054/https://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/extinction/Day1/overkill/Bit1.html