The dogs were photographed in the summers of 2009 and 2010 in villages of the south Chinese provinces of Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan (Figure 1). The dogs were kept by the ethnic groups named black Miaos, small horned Miaos, and Gejia. These groups are linguistically related peoples in southwest China, the Miaos referred to in Chinese as “small horned” or “long-horned” Miaos depending on the length of the horns of their headpieces, or black, white, red, and so forth, depending on the most characteristic color of the women’s clothes.