AHC: Save an extinct domesticate

[Mort the Reaper]

a good example of the latter could be the Hawaiian poi dog--it had some ritual significance in pre-contact Hawaiian religion but, more importantly, was used as a source of food

What about other Polynesian Dog varieties?

 

[Captain Jack]

The Salish Wool Dog. An extremely interesting breed of dog that the Salish peoples in the Pacific Northwest bred specifically as a wool animal. They deliberately kept the population separated from their other dog breeds and carefully bred the dogs to select for desired characteristics of the wool. The whole system is really unique, and almost reads like a secondary domestication of their existing dogs to fill an extremely different role. While other areas and peoples used dog hair as a fiber, I'm not aware of anywhere else that bred specialized wool dogs.