Besides, the larger canines can have trouble taking down a deer if they were in a pack, but tigers, the largest feline in the world that weighs about five hundred pounds, could easily take down a prey animal the size of a small moose. Although the head looks mostly canine, the shorter, feline snout betrays the look. Likewise, Arcanine s paws also look feline, without blunt extended claws. The form might suggest that Arcanine are neither tigers nor dogs but some combination of the two. The Yellow Pok dex entry calls Arcanine a legendary Pok mon in China.
Chinese tigers are highly endangered.
Food for thought. But Growlithe is called a puppy Pok mon. This is an editorial about Arcanine, not Growlithe. I agree the Growlithe is a dog, but I still think Arcanine is a tiger, still retaining some vestigial canine features from its Growlithe stage. But Canine is part of Arcanine s name.