It took the Coast Salish peoples thousands of years of careful breeding to produce a dog with fur so thick it could be spun into yarn. And it took only a few decades for colonists settling in western Canada to push the Salish woolly dog to extinction.
Until recently, the only remnants of the beloved canine were believed to be a handful of woven blankets, a pelt hidden in a museum 3,000 miles away and generations of Salish oral history.
