#sapsali

[thelazypetowner]

Obligatory bluebonnet photo! I got a few others, but obviously I had to spend too much time making One Good Edit. ™️

[patchoulol]

Well I'll absolutely still brush your hair in my lap that just makes it way more master and pet coded.

I'll brush your hair if you'll brush my hair?

i don't understand how to brush hair :c

[grison-in-space]

thinking about dog breeds marketed as being a piece of history, I keep getting caught up in dog breeds for whom the real, verifiable, documented history is legitimately a story of resistance and survival.

I had half a post the other day about the well documented fact that indigenous breeds of livestock tend to not survive much past colonial occupation, right? This is especially true if the animals are an important part of indigenous culture, specifically because slaughtering all the animals or forcing indigenous people to cross them to 'improved' colonial strains is an almost ubiquitous piece of the colonialist occupier handbook. Often, after a long period of time, a member of the occupying colonizing culture will come in, scrape up whatever minimal pieces are left, outcross to a bunch of other strains, and start using the unstoppable, tragic story of loss to market the animals they now consider "theirs" to their fellows, generally without input from the living descendants of the strain's original creators. Sometimes, as with the American Indian Dog people, no obvious single breed or landrace actually even existed and they merge a whole bunch of cultures' animals together into a homogeneous mash-up!

Once the story is set, these storytellers will start breeding their animals according to their own fashions and values, because the story is only important insofar as it provides an exotic origin; it's not important in terms of creating cultural connection to the people who are mentioned in those origins. Often, when genetic tests are done and compared to pre-contact animals, it turns out that there's almost no trace of the originating strain left in any case. Often there are just no animals left after the one-two punch of decimation and drowning in modern genomes, and reconstruction can do as it will.

This is the story of the Appaloosa horse, the Araucana chicken, the Samoyed, the Alaskan Malamute, the Carolina Dog, basically every generic American Indian Dog project I am aware of, the Chihuahua, and a number of others. I am not familiar enough with with the history of Peruvian Orchid or Xolo to say there offhand, but I wouldn't be surprised.

(Sometimes a similar phenomenon occurs without the directed slaughter and forcible removal of indigenous control over their native animals, as with Saluki, Arabian horses, Basenji, and Afghan Hounds. This is more likely if the indigenous animals are not especially valued by the indigenous culture, as with Basenji, or if local colonization is not especially preoccupied with eradicating and assimilating local culture, as with British occupation of the Middle East.)

In recent decades, I've noted Saluki, Basenji, and Arabian breeders beginning to do more reaching out to cultures of origin and incorporating at least their modern dogs into the pedigree gene pools, as well as sometimes incorporating the actual opinions of those cultures on dog selection and breeding. This is awesome. More of that, please.

But there are also indigenous breeds and landraces out there that have survived colonization within the hands of their originating people!

Take the Sapsali of South Korea. During the Japanese colonial period, these dogs were slaughtered in huge numbers to make coats for Japanese soldiers and as a way of subjugating Korean culture. But very few survived, and they are in the process of being carefully managed by South Korean breeders to bring them back as a larger population. (The Jindo was the only South Korean dog breed to escape deliberate Japanese attempts at eradication, because it resembles Japan's own indigenous dog breeds and this was felt to be a plus. This doesn't mean that they weren't also slaughtered in huge numbers to be turned into coats; it just means that Japanese colonial efforts weren't actively trying to exterminate them.)

Greenland Dogs and Canadian Inuit Dogs hold a similar story of survival despite pressure to give the dogs up (including dog seizures and killings by the RCMP in the case of the Canadian dogs).

There are also reconstruction projects being undertaken by colonized peoples who are cheerfully agnostic about retaining unbroken genetic connection to their ancestral animals.

The Nez Perce horse, for example, is a Nez Perce-owned and managed effort to recreate their original horses--at the time renowned as long distance, fast endurance animals--using Akhal-Teke crosses to restore the original phenotype, away from the more common Quarter-Horse-like stock horses that characterize many of the animals currently registered as Appaloosas.

There are also some murmurings about potentially attempting to recreate the extinct Salish Woolly Dog with or without genomic assistance from preserved hides. That would be wild and incredibly cool, reconstruction or not.

[sylunisart]

I’m still very art blocked so have these doodles of Lisa, my two rescue corps ocs, and my hocotate and koppai captain ocs

I hc Karut to be a cultural melting pot so there’s a decent amount of hybrids living there, which is why Lisa’s ears are round, she has partial koppai heritage.

Lily and Saph are half sisters, same mom different fathers, they’re both from Karut aswell but their mom has Giya heritage, Lily’s father has Ohri heritage and Saph’s father is of an unknown carnivore species. Oh and they’re both based on Sapsali dogs. They’re meant to be a part of two player mode(Lily is player 1 while Saph is player 2) while Lisa is single player mode.

Lily is the younger sister. She fit in rather quickly with the rescue corps since she has a more extroverted personality and is very confident in getting the job done. However, she is also a chaos gremlin who lacks impulse control so she often gets into trouble while on the job.

Saph is the older sister. She is a very skilled sharpshooter and an excellent strategist, but she is very much on the shyer side and is not as confident as Lily. Due to heritage, she has a second pair of eyes that she keeps closed at all times, only opening them in private or when she’s around the people she trusts the most.

Momo is a hocotate freight employee and the assistant of President Sacho. Out of all the employees, Momo is probably the most stressed person there, having to deal with her boss’s and Louie’s antics. Olimar thankfully helps ease her stress a bit and because of it he’s the only person there whom Momo can tolerate. Olimar and Louie are supposedly based on Mario and Luigi so in this case Momo would be based on Peach hence her name.

Emily is a rookie koppaite ranger. She is very outgoing and friendly but is a bit clumsy due to her lack of experience as a ranger. Much like Alph, she greatly looks up to Charlie. The Koppaite captains go by A B C naming and D already exists via a scrapped character so Emily in this case would be the letter E.

[mustela28nivalis]

Hetalia characters as dog breeds

America - Alaskan malamute

Nyo!America - American pit bull terrier

Canada - Labrador retriever

Russia - Samoyed

Prussia - Doberman

Nyo!Prussia - Schafpudel

Germany - German shepherd

Nyo!Germany - Hovawart

China - Chow chow

Korea - Sapsali

Japan - Shiba inu

Wales - Welsh corgi pembroke

England - Parson russell terrier

Scotland - Gordon setter

Italy - lagotto romagnolo

Romano - Italian greyhound

Romania - Romanian mioritic shepherd

Bulgaria - Karakachan dog

Austria - Austrian pinscher

Hungary - Pumi

France - French spaniel

Sweden - Swedish lapphund

Finland - Finnish lapphund

Denmark - Danish spitz

Norway - Lundehund

[jamescanningauthor]

I Asked AI to Show Me Different Rare Dog Breeds, Here's What It Came Up With

Airedale Terrier

5/10 weird patterns

Barak Hound (Bosnian Rough-haired Hound)

1/10 what is this, this is not a Barak Hound

Clumber Spaniel

7/10 weird looking but it got the basics

Danish Spitz

10/10 hauntingly unearthly beautiful. Not even remotely a Danish Spitz, what am I looking at, that is barely even a dog

English Setter

6/10 great image, not even remotely an English Setter

Fila Brasileiro

-305839/10 NO. What is this? Not even remotely the same kind of dog, what am I looking at, stop!!

Greek Shepherd

6/10 majestic and adorable, not even SLIGHTLY a Greek Shepherd

Hygen Hound

7/10 GORGEOUS. Not even A LITTLE BIT Hygen Hound

Ibizan Hound

19/10 that is an Ibizan Hound. Lovely.

Japanese Chin Dog

4/10 the patterns are close enough, but that is not a Chin whatsoever otherwise

Karelian Bear Dog

8/10 one of them is surprisingly accurate

Leonberger Dog

-99/10 NO

Maneto Dog

5/10 for once they're in an interesting location in one of these, that is 0.0% Maneto

Neapolitan Mastiff

6848577647/10 YES. Double nose and all.

Otterhound

6/10 close enough

Pharaoh Hound

9/10 Those eyes are huge and terrifying. Otherwise fine.

Rhodesian Ridgeback

8/10 hilarious would be perfect if the image were cropped. Is she half dachshund?

Sapsali Dog

7/10 not even close but that sure is a Creature

Tibetan Terrier

6/10 a bit. Very interesting animal here.

Viszla Dog

937983585899/10 LMFAO yes. 2 collars. 4 ears.

Whippet Dog

2/10 that is anything but a Whippet

Xoloitzcuintle Dog

-666/10 HORRIFYING.

Yakutian Laika

6/10 cool dog, not any kind of Laika

Zerdava Dog

5/10 not even a little bit, bonus points for double tail and adorable backpack/saddle thing

[iicraft505]

Sapsali

[asterwild]

I just really needed to start another thing that involved drawing more grayscale dog heads

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[cyanocoraxx]

lesser-known dog breeds

majorca shepherd (spanish herding/guard dog), greek harehound (greek scenthound), carea leonés (spanish sheep herding dog), cane di oropa (italian cattle/sheep herding dog), donggyeongi (korean breed), sapsali (korean breed, believed to dispel ghosts and evil spirits), cão de castro laboreiro (portuguese livestock guardian), liangshan (chinese generalist hunting dog), xiasi hound (chinese guard, hunting and boar-baiting dog)

[pleadsthefifth]

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#sapsali

[mindmeltonabun-blog]

Deeper Examination of The Mystery Surrounding The Lost Daughter of the Jin Family

Here on my blog I like to think through things in many different ways. Solving mysteries and coming up with new theories is always so much fun! Now, one of the biggest enigmas in AOS is who is the lost daughter of the Jin family. Our top two candidates are Naksu and Mu Deok. I have proposed various theories which argue it can be either parties. Today I would like to present another theory: Naksu is Bu Yeon and has returned to her original body or what we know as Mu Deok’s body. Mind blown yet?

As crazy as it may sound, Naksu and Mu Deok may have swapped souls when they were just children by Jin Mu. Just hear me out! First, the soul shifting blue marks are like bruises which means they do eventually disappear over time. One can hasten this process by applying various treatments such as eye droplets. If Naksu and Mu Deok were swapped as children then their blue marks would’ve disappeared by the time they were teenagers or adults.

Now let's play devil’s advocate. What if the body Naksu was in, was not actually her real body? What if the body she is now aka Mu Deok’s body was her original body. This would mean that the body we have come to know as Naksu’s body was actually Mu Deok’s. Does this make sense? As crazy as this theory may be, it could explain a lot of things. 

Maybe the real reason why when Naksu casted the spell it chose Mu Deok was because it was trying to return her to her original body aka Mu Deok’s body. Think about it for a second. One knows that one must cast the Alchemy of Souls spell twice in order to return to one’s original body.

For example, the case of the King and Jang Gang. The first time the spell was casted, it swapped the souls of the King and Jang Gang. The second time it was casted, each party returned to their respective bodies. If the spell was casted when Naksu and Mu Deok were children and then again when they were adults then it would make sense why the spell chose Mu Deok’s body over that bar maid’s body. It was because it was returning Naksu back to her original body. 

Side note, I did mention that I believed the soul ejector was only needed when one was stuck in a non mage body. If both bodies involved are mage bodies then the soul ejector would not be needed to reverse the soul swap. One would simply only need to cast the spell to return to one's body. Hope this makes sense.

Something else to point out is the gap between one's soul and the body one inhabits. We know Sapsali is able to detect the "evil" energy that leaks out between this gap. So why is there a gap if Naksu was returning to her original body? Two potential explanations. The first is that Mu Deok's soul did not leave. Since their souls were switched when they were babies, they both were probably unaware of what had occurred in the first place. So maybe Mu Deok's soul did not want to forfeit her body because she truly thought it was hers to began with. The gap would probably dissipate once Mu Deok gives up control. Or it could be that Sapsali was detecting Mu Deok's soul as the one being the soul shifter. Again, this gap would go away once Mu Deok's soul disappears. Anyways, the second explanation is that too much time has passed since Naksu's soul was back in her original body. Therefore her body might not be able recognize its' original soul.

Jin Mu is truly an evil and twisted man. He wanted to ensure that his stepsister could never find her daughter. It's hard enough to find a person, but could you imagine also having to find their soul? That’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack! It's nearly impossible because one would not even know where to began searching! Even if Mama Jin and Daddy Jin had recognized their daughter as an adult, how would they be able to find her soul? Jin Mu had planned for every possible outcome!

Jin Mu kept Bu Yeon’s soul close to him by making her one of his minions and then tossed her body out into the streets to wonder. As a final fuck you Jin family, he sealed the core energy in her body. This would make her body so weak that even if Naksu/Bu Yeon was able to cast the Alchemy of Souls spell and return to her original body, she could never come after him because she would not have the power to do so.

The only way she would be able to assess her energy/powers is if there was a great mage who could unseal it for her. However, it was like Jang Uk pointed out, no one would be willing to help Naksu/Bu Yeon because the world hated her. Jin Mu made sure of that when he made her an assassin. There are just some things he did not account for, Naksu/Bu Yeon was extremely strong/had killer survival instincts and there was a mage who might be willing to unseal it for her….Master Lee. It would be nice if it were Jang Uk, but let's be real here....that boy is still learning how to walk. However, it still could be that it is Jang Uk is the one who will unseal her gate of energy.

Additionally, because he made her soul strong by turning her into one of his assassins and her body weak by having her gate of energy sealed, she would face the problem of running wild and becoming petrified even if she were able to return to it.

Ultimately what I feel is going to happen is Naksu/Bu Yeon and Mu Deok will have like a one on one chat with each other and figure things out. Once that happens, Mu Deok will relinquish control of the body and simply disappear to be with her real family in the afterlife if such a thing even exists in the world of AOS.

At this point, the body and soul of Naksu/Bu Yeon will finally become one or in unison. This is when the real shit really goes down. Naksu will come after Jin Mu with everything she’s got. Maybe the big epic battle in AOS will be Jin Mu and his army of soul shifters (remember that Dang Gu said a lot of officials have been disappearing...maybe Jin Mu is creating an army) vs Naksu and the four families….WOW!!! If this is where season 1 ends then it would definitely be a huge cliffhanger! Season 2 has been confirmed to be 10 episodes long and is currently being filmed now. This means in total AOS will be 30 episodes long! So maybe in season 2, it will show the outcome of the battle, Naksu being reunited with her family, and weddings! I can't wait!

[thelazypetowner]

One of the Facebook groups I'm in features a breed every month, and August 2024 is sapasree month. I thought I would share my posts here so we can spread some awareness and education since information is very difficult to find (in English especially, but also still in Korean).

Day one is just basic information.

Sapsalgae 삽살개, affectionately called sapasree 삽사리/sapsali 삽살이 and occasionally shortened to sapsal 삽살, is an indigenous dog (토종개) from South Korea. The name originally derives from Hanja (Chinese characters in Korean language) 煞 (evil spirit) and 揷 (to stop), and in Hangeul, the name becomes 삽사 (chase evil spirits) where 개, gae, means dog. Thus, the sapsaree's literal name means to chase or ward off evil spirits, and as such, sapsarees are often seen as guardians or protectors that bring good luck and peace.

Sapsarees have lived in South Korea for thousands of years, but exactly how long is unknown. The history of sapsarees are largely known through oral stories, folktales, paintings, songs, and writings. Potential evidence suggests they have been around since at least the Silla Dynasty (57 BCE – 935 CE), and for some time, they were typically kept by royalty. They were largely kept as companions, but they were sometimes used as military dogs (specifics of both of these purposes are unknown but likely along the lines of a general purpose companion, watch dog, and hunter). It wasn't until the Koryo Dynasty (918–1392) that commoners started owning sapsarees. During Japan's occupation of Korea, Japan issued Ordinance No. 26 in 1940 to kill dogs for fur to use as military resources. Sapsarees were largely targeted for their long hair, and an estimated 1.5 million sapsarees were killed during this period. Sapsarees came dangerously close to extinction, and in 1969, professors from the Kyungpook National University began searching for sapsarees. Of the dogs believed to be pure by appearance and behavior, only about 30 were found by 1972 when research began.

The true dedication to preserve sapsarees began in 1989 when Professor Ji-hong Ha committed to getting sapsarees recognized as a national monument (designations to animals, plants, formations, etc. that highlight and represent Korea's heritage), and in 1992, the Korean Sapsaree Foundation was founded and sapsarees were designated as National monument #368. From the original ~30 dogs saved, only 8 remained, and from those, the breed was carefully bred for preservation and protection. In 1999, sapsarees became available to the general public, and more recently, have become available to international buyers. Today, the Korean Sapsaree Foundation permanently houses approximately 500 sapsarees for preservation, breeding, and research, and sapsarees now number in the several thousands.

As sapsarees have always been companions, their strength comes from their qualities and behavior with their family. They are most well known for their loyalty and loving nature, but they are also characteristically gentle, obedient, and sociable within their circle. They are said to love with their whole body with their people. They are not known to be a vocal breed, but they are very watchful and may alert bark at strangers. In doing so, they are characteristically fearless and loud. As current priority is toward health and genetic diversity, specific traits on individuals are less selected for or against. As such, traits like prey drive, energy level, food drive, toy drive, and social friendliness with other dogs may vary. Sapsarees are a smart breed, but they are not bred specifically for work or sport, and sometimes motivating them can take time. Uniquely without being selected for, sapsarees generally seem to enjoy water and are generally very clean dogs (ie, not crate dirty and may hold their bladder for long periods). Weak character and nervousness is a fault, and excessive aggressiveness is a disqualifying fault.

Appearance-wise, sapsarees are known for their rectangular shape, large head, large ankles, and shaggy (furnished) fur. Combined with their watchful nature, they are sometimes called "lion dogs" but generally have a amiable appearance. While they are known for their shaggy fur, approximately 3% of sapsarees have what is called "short fur" (unfurnished). In Korean, the short hair sapsarees are sometimes called Goryegae 고려개 (a term coined by Professor Ha), but they are genetically the same. In Korea, sapsarees are considered large dogs. However, they are generally a medium-sized dog at about 52-63 cm tall and 20-30 kg (20-24 in tall and 44-66 lb). They have floppy ears and are generally moderate and well balanced dogs in all aspects due to lack of specific breed purpose and trait selection. Because of their near extinction, priority has been placed on health and genetic diversity. While some selection toward appearance is considered, there remains some variation in appearance in regards to subtleties and specifics. Per the foundation, sapsarees are considered blue or yellow, or variations of blue or yellow, or spotted. Genetically, sapsarees appear to be able to be black, brown/liver, blue, various intensities of red (including a very light cream), and piebald. Various markings and variations appear as sable, agouti, masks, minor ticking on noses and paws (more ticking may be noted on piebald dogs), tan point, and residual white on the chest, paws, and nose. Erect ears are a disqualifying fault.

[addezami]

Les races de chiens rares dont vous ne connaissiez même pas l'existence.

[monbebe-twins]

🐹: What hairstyle is Chae Hyungwon even aiming for?

🐢: At this point I have no idea what I want to do with my hair.

🐹: I think he aims for sapsali style (a shaggy south korean dog breed)

😆😆😂😂

But I’m actually really loving Hyungwon’s long hair tbh 😍😍😍

[hufflpuffin]

Theres the sweetest rescue sapsali for adoption,, perfect temperment for me, would fit in great with my other sheepdog mix since my lil bichon passed, and I can pay the fees and transport costs. But since Person moved in i can't have him here 😭

[forlhg007]

HusSaPool Squad!

HG: Husky

MH: Sapsali ( a dog breed)

HJ: Poodle

HAHAHAHAHA