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Maybe she liked you enough that she will visit, from time to time.

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That's not true.  

First off, while it is true that in many areas where dogs are left to fend for themselves, after generations those populations have reverted to a certain size, general coloration, and general body build, ALL dogs are 'just dogs' be they the Pariah type or not.

Second, if the traits of a breed are uncommon to find or just not present in many breeds, no amount of mixing those breeds that lack that gene will cause it to magically appear just because you mix for enough generations. You take a GSD, black lab, bloodhound, standard size poodle,  doberman and a husky and drop them off someplace and let them breed free for 100 years, when you come back you won't find anything that has the legs of a daschund, smushed face of a bulldog, or distinctive coloration of a dalmatian.

Third, any time a dog has the characteristics of breed A and B, you cannot conclude that it comes from breed A and B.  That's why I included 'guess'.

Fourth, just because you can't know for sure, doesn't exclude the high likelyhood that a dog that has the characteristics of A and B isn't that way because it had A for a mom and B for a dad.  Right now, looking at how prevalent and relatively inexpensive  'papered' dogs are thanks to puppy mills being able to churn them out cheaply and how many people think 'if my dog has papers and down the block a ways their dog is of the same breed and has papers, we should make puppies!'  AND because of the general ship away from rural to urban communities,  I think that MOST mutts in the USA are 1, 2, or 3 generations removed form a 'purebred' vs the 10 or so generations you'd see in a Pariah Landrace.

Fifth, I believe at least part of the reason why the various Pariah Landraces found around the world look so similar isn't because they are all expressing the "True 'Just Dog' DNA Profile' but that they like any other BREED or LANDRACE are expressing just those genes that natural selection states gives them the best chance of living in that environment, and that most of the areas where populations of Pariah dogs are found are very similar. Whenever you have two distinct non-crossbreeding  populations living in climatologically similar areas filling the same ecological niche and using similar techniques to do so while facing similar risks, don't be surprised when natural selection produces two very similar creatures.

Dogs on the midden heaps found in India and those found in Brazil look so similar not because each is reverting back to some 'just dog' ancestral type, but because living on refuse in a hot land selects toward a neutral color that blends in well, a medium size for both food, reproduction, and temperature control reasons, a mid-length muzzle for utilitarian reasons, pricked or semi-pricked ears because hound type ears don't aid in any way and can cause issues, etc etc etc.  These share similarities with ancient dogs because those dogs were doing the same thing just separated by time vs oceans.