Survivor Dogs- Kanosak

**Kanosak** is a black Northern Inuit Dog. She is very level-headed and barely ever snaps at others, due to her years as a wild dog, after losing her owners. She's an experienced hunter, dispite the fact that she now lives as a Leashed Dog. She likes cold weather and feeling independant, though she'd never leave her owner, who she calls Innugati, which means friend in Inuit.

## Past

**Kanosak** grew up most of her life with her former owners, who she remembered as being named Suka and Sesi, two oddly similar looking sister longpaws. She was always very loyal to them, and promised them that she would always protect them. One day, her owners were attacked by a bear while out hunting for seals, and **Kanosak** tried to protect them, but couldn't, and instead, the grizzly bear knocked her away like a tree branch, clawing long cuts across her back, which remained as scars after she healed. She tried to wake Suka and Sesi up, but the bear had wounded them to badly, and **Kanosak** spent a whole day to bring them both back to their home, and ran through the town to alert the other longpaws of their death. Because of **Kanosak**'s scars, nobody wanted her, and the longpaws who didn't care what she looked like already had enough dogs for hunting and sled-pulling, so she was left without a longpaw to care for her. A young longpaw would sometimes feed her when she saw her, but that longpaw cub soon fell ill and died, and the longpaws in the village blamed **Kanosak** for this, saying that she brought the disease to the cub to kill her, and the longpaws chased her away from the village, sending her out into the wild.

No dogs ever wanted to deal with **Kanosak** because from a distance, she looked like a younger wolf, so she lived alone, and had to learn to hunt jackrabbits and make dens to hide in, and how to defend herself against other animals without a pack. For two years she lived like this, fending for herself and wandering like a lone dog does, she came across a village, which she was wary of at first, in fear that the longpaws there would know of **Kanosak** being accused of bringing the disease to her old village that killed the young longpaw, but they seemed to know nothing of it. She was found by a young, almost fully grown longpaw, who lived by herself in the village too. She called herself Innugati, which took a while for **Kanosak** to understand because of the way longpaws speak, but eventually, she got it. The longpaw cub sometimes called **Kanosak** 'innugati' too. Innugati gave **Kanosak** a bear claw necklace after her elder noticed the scars on her back as bear claw markings, as a sign of her surviving the bear.

## Appearance

**Kanosak** has the same muscular build and appearance as any other Northern Inuit Dogs. Her eyes are lightened brown and her fur is jet black with a white fleck on her chest. Her fur is very thick and soft, and she has three bear claw marks on her back, as a result of her attempt to defend her first longpaws. She has a bear claw necklace from Innugati.

## Personality

**Kanosak** is very loyal, calm, and strong-minded. She is defensive of her owner as part of her loyalties to her. She's passive aggressive at time, but prefers to avoid battles and arguments. She is known to have an authorative auora by other dogs. She strongly dislikes pups because of their loudness and she finds them to be annoying and disrupting. She has a short attention span and often grows bored of what others are saying.

## Relationships

### **Innugati**

Innugati is **Kanosak**'s longpaw. She cares very much about Innugati and is very proud of her. She thinks of Innugati like a sister, and promises to protect her for as long as they both live, and to never leave her side.

### **Deniigi**

Dennigi is a lazy Canadian Inuit Dog that lives next door. **Kanosak** is friends with him mainly because of how relaxed he is, and his peaceful auora. They get along well since they both like quiet conversations. She thinks the name Deniigi is funny for him, since it means moose in Inuit, but he's lazy and only moves when is longpaw makes him.

### **Dusky**

**Kanosak** hates Dusky because of her loudness and enegertic personality, and also because she came from further south, and the longpaws and dogs of her village are wary of anyone who comes from the south. She'll deny it up and down, but **Kanosak** has a crush on her.

## Trivia

* The word 'kanosak' means 'gold' in Inuit.
* **Kanosak** lives in Nunavut, Canada, which is where her whole life has taken place.