{"id":846,"date":"2026-01-01T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2026-01-01T18:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:51:32","slug":"oldest-dog-breed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/oldest-dog-breed\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest known dog breed reveals hidden human history"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-847\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/greenland-sled-dog-oldest-dog-breed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-847 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/oldest-dogs-300x168.png\" alt=\"Oldest Dog Breed\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carsten Egevang\/Popular Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Iditarod is the longest annual sled dog race\u2013 covering over 1,500 miles across Alaska. But there\u2019s another impressive, long-distance sled dog journey worth considering: their slow motion race through time. A close look into canine genetics reveals sled dogs have been around and on the move for thousands of years&#8230;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/greenland-sled-dog-oldest-dog-breed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iditarod is the longest annual sled dog race\u2013 covering over 1,500 miles across Alaska. But there\u2019s another impressive, long-distance sled dog journey worth considering: their slow motion race through time. A close look into canine genetics reveals sled dogs have been around and on the move for thousands of years&#8230;.\u201d More&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","tag-cat-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}