Catalburun,Tigre Andino de Dos Narices,Molossers raza

Un explorador halló en Bolivia una extraña raza de perros de dos narices y que, según el testimonio, podrían utilizarse para detectar minas o drogas. Blashford-Snell encontró por primera vez a un ejemplar de “Tigre Andino de Dos Narices” en su primer viaje a Bolivia, en 2005, cuando realizaba un reconocimiento del terreno que exploraría este año su expedición. ¡Mirá vos! (Fuente: El lector Dr. Froi, que los sacó d’l diario “La Voz del Interior”, y agrega la siguiente reflexión: “¿Por qué detectar "minas o drogas’? Si tienen dos narices, ¿porque no hacer las dos cosas a la vez? Y si es un perro, ¿porque lo llaman ‘Tigre Andino’?”. Probabilidades de exactitud: 29 %, porque no comemos vidrio pero si bien está en la infame línea de Mike, el pollo sin cabeza convengamos en que es un poco más factible la existencia de este bicho)

http://weblogs.clarin.com/podeti/archives/086004.php

Turkey's only native pointing breed is called çatalburun by the Turkish people because of the breed's nose structure. The term "çatal" means fork and "burun" means nose.

The origin of these Turkish pointers that are being used by upland game hunters in Tarsus-Mersin region of Turkey are unknown. The most prominent feature of this dog is its split nose.

These dogs are short haired, with 50 cm height, 20-25 kg weight and have scissor bite with strong chin and body structurte. Due to their strong body, they are very talented in partridge hunting in difficult areas. They are also very agile and quick in contradictory to their structure. They convey to the hunter that they have picked up the scent of the hunt by rather slow movements when they are near the game. Eventhough these dogs are one man or solitary hunter devoted animals, they are in very good terms with children. These dogs are not known out side the Tarsus area and no breeding research have been carried out. The only research that was done on this subject as a project, is between the years 2001-2002 by high school students in Tarsus to participate in a competition opened up by a scientific research institution

"Pointer with double nose", reported in the book "El Pointer", by the Argentinian writer R.Magnelli Ferrari

http://uk.geocities.com/catalburun/english.html