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Video: Hairless dogs in competition; meet Mexico’s Xoloitzcuintles

Spend any time on the streets of Mexico, and you will eventually see them. Mexico’s hairless brown or red-skinned dogs — the Xoloitzcuintle (pronounced sholo-squint-lay).

Love them or hate them, they’ve played a long-term part in Mexico’s history, according to Gabriel Mestre, who is a small-scale Xoloitzcuintle breeder and author of a number of books on the subject. He says this breed of dog can be traced back at least 2,800 years in Mexico, and that some Mexicans believed that the animals had curative powers.

Not all Xoloitzcuintle dogs are bald, and litters yield hairy and hairless pups. But it’s the hairless dogs that tend to attract more attention, Mestre says.

He sells most of his dogs and puppies to other breeders in Europe, and says the reactions he gets when he takes his dogs out onto the streets here in Mexico City are mixed. Some people compliment him, others shy away. Mestre’s client base does suggest that the unusual looking animals are an acquired taste and are more popular with foreign than domestic breeders.

But that doesn’t stop him from showing them off, and he’s a regular at national and international dog shows around the world. We went along with him and one of his dogs, 8-month-old Aztlan, to a recent show here in Mexico City.

Watch the video for more.

– Deborah Bonello in Mexico City for the Los Angeles Times

Video: Mexico’s hairless Xoloitzcuintle in competition. Credit: Deborah Bonello

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About the Author: MexicoReporter.com is the personal website of Deborah Bonello, a multi-media journalist based Mexico City. Deborah is a freelance journalist who spends the majority of her time working as a contract blogger, news assistant and video journalist for the Los Angeles Times Mexico City bureau. The views presented here do NOT represent those of the Los Angeles Times.

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  1. И мне понравилось…

  2. Leesa says:

    Gabriel Mestre is involved with this dog, but he is the only one that pronouces the name this way. In the Xolo world, of which I am a part of, the correct pronounciation is Xoloitzcuintle Show-low-eats-queent=lee

    L. Flynn

  3. Dylan Mahl says:

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