Have you ever seen a world map with so many breeds of dogs?
That **the German Shepherd comes from Germany** is quite logical. But don't be fooled by the evidence.
To clarify the nationality of each dog, lili chin , a Malaysian artist who is dedicated to the 2D animation , she has created a magnificent roadmap that invites us to travel the world from bark to bark. this cool map contains 366 dog breeds sorted by country. Have you already found yours?
The animator has been working as a freelancer for 10 years in charge of your own company in Los Angeles (USA) : ** Doggie Drawings .** “My job is portray pets for their owners, graphics for professional dog trainers and pet businesses, and sell my own prints and products”, she tells Traveler.es.
Lili Chin has been drawing all her life. After living 20 years in Australia her, she moved to **Los Angeles** where she co-created a children's television show anime whose theme was Mexican wrestling.
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But what was a turning point in her career was adopting her dog Boogie , the source of her inspiration. The love she felt for her pet made her draw her obsessively. , and people started asking him to paint her dogs too.
“ This is how I became a pet portrait artist , I have drawn thousands of dogs and other animals”, the illustrator tells Traveler.es. Boogie's behavior problems also caused him to illustrate **training methods.**
“ In 2014 , I started an exciting project, Dogs of the World , which was a collection of 21 posters with 192 dog breeds and their geographical origins . I had stayed up until 3am every night for several months working on it. It was obsessive, funny and fascinating for me ”, she confesses.
From that moment on, success came rolling. The designs went viral on the internet and began to receive many email messages of people from all over the world suggesting dog breeds that I had not yet painted, as well as that create a single poster with all of them.
She then came up with the exciting idea of making a **map of the world** on which she would fit over 300 dogs. The first version of the map was produced as a 1000 piece puzzle . The second edition, launched in 2018 , it's **a great print** that she sells on her website and has 366 races!
asian dogs
for the cheerleader it wasn't easy to figure out where dog breeds originated , since she on the Internet she read contradictory stories. For example, **some pages say that the Chinese Crested is from China**, when in fact the breed is descended from hairless dogs from Mexico and other South American countries , and developed in the USA . in the 20's.
Additionally, dog breed names can also be misleading: the Great Dane is from Germany and the Australian Shepherd is American. "The dog breed historian the one I consulted is Scottie Westfall, Y your blog , which covers the origins of dogs, has been a very helpful and unbiased source of information. He was able to answer all my questions, even about rarer breeds, and he helped me make sure the information on my map was accurate, even though sometimes it is not possible to identify a single origin for a breed of dog ”, explains the artist.
american dogs
For example, **although it seems obvious that the French bulldog is from France**, the version we know now (with bat ears) was developed and standardized in this country, but this breed is **originally from England* *.
In Belgium, the Belgian Shepherd is a breed of dog with variations in coat colour. But according to some kennel clubs, the different shades correspond to four different kinds of dog . There may also be versions beauty show and versions working of the same race, with slightly different physical characteristics.
english dogs
“ The visual variety in dogs as a species is what interests me the most as an artist. I am also fascinated to learn about native breeds or village dogs. These are not standardized dog breeds or purebred dogs. These are dogs that they have been around for a long time before humans started creating dog breeds And they don't all look the same.
"For example, the Formosan Mountain Dog and the Africanis can have short hair, long hair, pointed ears, floppy ears... Wanted to include these non-pedigree dogs on the map because they are just as interesting, although it is not possible to represent their physical variations with a single image”, the illustrator comments to Traveler.es.
As part of her investigation, Lili Chin visited a canine beauty pageant for the first time to see dog breeds that she had never seen in person before. “ I learned that many dogs were actually a different size than I had imagined , or the textures of their coats were different from what they look like in the photos”, she tells us.
nordic dogs
Ella Boogie's dog is a Boston Terrier. , and before adopting him she had already fostered a few of the same kind. At Traveler.es we wondered what your favorite dog would be , and we have not been wrong with the answer.
“Although I want to say that the Boston Terrier is my favorite breed, the truth is that I don't know any other breed so intimately that I could choose another. boogie is my favorite dog ”, concludes the artist.