Well, I'll start because I've always thought this was fascinating: A now extinct dog called the Alco is native to Puerto Rico. It was mute or, in other words, it didn't bark, and the indigenous people of the island domesticated them and used them to hunt guinea pigs. They were popular after the Spanish came to the island because they were small and were kept by the "ladies" as "lap dogs" and "pleasantly quiet companions."
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