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When you first arrive at the shelter, find the kennel containing the dog you are interested in and stop in front of it. Stand about 5 feet back and casually observe. Does your first impression, your "gut" feeling, say Jindo to you? This is often the most important test of if you are looking at a Jindo or not. Run through the checklist of characteristics below if the dog appears to be a Jindo.

Walking into a shelter and in a short few minutes evauating a dog not just on it's temperament but also deciding if it is truly a Jindo, a Jindo mix, or a mixed breed that just looks sort of Jindo-ish is a very difficult task. The purpose of this website is to provide information necissary to make that call a little easier. I also encourage everyone to visit the Jindo Rescue Resource and the Jindojunkie website. Most of the pictures on this website are either actual shelter pictures or are of dogs we have pulled from the shelters, thus they do a good job representing what you may see while evauating dogs.

If the dog comes with registration paperwork, either UKC, Korean, or that put out by a US Jindo organization, then most likely the dog is a Jindo unless there is something obvious about it that suggests it's not. As yet, we have never run across a dog with papers. Papers from any of the other US organizations should be disregarded.

Does the dog appear to be at least 8 months of age? Young puppies are VERY hard to evaluate for breed characteristics and unless they come from a "known" background in most cases they should be passed on or assumed to be mixes.