General Listing Information
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| Breed: | Dog > Mi-ki |
| Breeder: | richard nannarello |
| Location: | Medina, NY |
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, Sep 16,2009 |
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About The Breed
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The Toy Mi-Ki is a rare breed of toy dog. It is still a developing breed, and there is controversy over what a "real" Toy Mi-Ki is, what it looks like, and so on. As with many controversial breeds, this issue might or might not ever be resolved; for example, see the continuing controversy over the Jack Russell Terrier and related varieties or breeds.
The Toy Mi-Ki stands about 10 inches at the withers.
Whether the Mi-Ki has one coat type or two varies with the different groups. One states that the Original Mi-Ki standard has only one coat type, long, straight silky hair with little to no shedding.
Another group states that the Mi-Ki comes in two coat varieties. The long-coated variety does not shed. Any hair that comes out of the dog is retained by the long coat. It is suggested that a fine toothed "wire hound comb" be used to remove the dead hair. The short-coated Mi-Ki does shed but moderately. Neither coat type is preferred over the other. Both coat types are shown in the same ring together; they are not separated into varieties. The Mi-Ki comes in all colors.
There are two ear types, the folded ear and the prick ear, which meams that the ear stands streight up. Both types of ears are acceptable in the breed standard. When the Mi-Ki becomes excited, his ears "wing", meaning that the folded ear can becoming erect, "winging" out to the side of the dog's head, giving the appearance that the dog is flying.
The eyes are large, dark, and expressive. Mi-Kis are smaller than the average house cat, and are easily trained to a cat litter box.
