Vietnam owns one of the most rare and expensive dogs in the world

Not looking anywhere! Phu Quoc dog in Vietnam is one of the rarest species in the world .

Expensive and rare precious dogs? Most people who hear this sentence think of the distant West dog breeds, like a billion-dollar Tibetan clam, or at least the Corgi, Alaska .

But not looking far away. In Vietnam, we also have a dog that is classified as one of the rarest species in the world. That is Phu Quoc dog !

Phu Quoc Dog - One of the rarest species in the world.

Phu Quoc Dog - a dog worth 300 million in the West

In October 2015, Catherine Lane, a 42-year-old woman of British nation, suddenly became a celebrity. That's because she was the first European to own and successfully breed the world's rarest dogs - the Phu Quoc dog of Vietnam.

Specifically, Lane traveled from England to Vietnam, choosing to bring two black Phu Quoc dogs home. After a hard time, the pair of dogs produced four puppies - three, one male, and they were ordered at a price of up to £ 10,000 / child (about VND 300 million at the exchange rate). at that time).

Dad dog in Catherine Lane's Phu Quoc dogs.

And according to what happened, that's not the price set by Lane. Lane's dogs attracted a lot of people around the world, and the price kept pushing up.

What made Phu Quoc dogs deserve such a price?

First of all, the rare purity of this breed. Phu Quoc Dog (Phu Quoc Ridgeback) is the only native dog in Phu Quoc Island, Kien Giang. After many years, the island has formed a distinct gene pool, making them different from the rest of the world.

Moreover, because only exist on the island, the number of Phu Quoc dogs is very small. As of 2015, only about 800 Phu Quoc dogs are registered around the world, most of them on the island.

The reverse whirlpool of Phu Quoc dog is characteristic of only 3 dogs in the world.

Next is the special appearance of Phu Quoc dog: they possess a bunch of swirling hairs growing up along the spine. This is the only feature of the three species of dogs in the world, the Thai Ridgeback Dog, the South African Lion Dog (the Rhodesian Ridgeback) , and our Vietnamese Phu Quoc Dog .

And finally, Phu Quoc dog is famous for being smart, easy to teach and loyal to its owner. This makes the dog species even more rare, and the value pushed is also understandable.

Some other interesting features of Phu Quoc dog

The most prominent feature of Phu Quoc dog is the swirling spine . However, the coat color of this dog also has its own remarkable features.

Vietnamese folk have the phrase "The best, the second yellow, the three black, the four dotted" reserved for Phu Quoc dogs. Accordingly, the three most expensive fur sets will be the tiger, fire gold, and ink. Phu Quoc braces the tiger to be uniform, almost as if it were tiger fur. Golden fire dogs must be dark red and red, and the ink must be black, without any other hair color.

Tiger bred dogs are the most expensive type of Phu Quoc.

Phu Quoc is a hunting dog, so a dog is considered to be beautiful if it is muscular, slender, tall, stately, and has a hook-shaped tail. In addition, if the tongue has more black spots, the dog will be more valuable.

Phu Quoc dogs are famous for their intelligence, easy teaching and loyalty to their owners.

In terms of intelligence, many argue that Phu Quoc is one of the top breeds. However, they are not included in the list of the smartest dogs (Border Colie tops this list).

The simple reason is that they are too rare, not enough to form a standard set in the world. Because of that, Phu Quoc dogs have not been able to attend many international dog competitions.