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Elkhound (Jamthund)

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN Finland

MOST SUITED AS Hunting dog for large game.

SIZE
The shoulder-height is 60 - 65cm (23 1/2 - 25 1/2in) for dogs and 55 - 60cm (21 1/2 - 23 1/2in) for bitches.

COAT
The Elkhound has a cream-coloured thick undercoat with thick, densely packed covering hair. The colour of the outer-coat is dark or light grey and there should be cream-coloured patches on the nose, cheeks, throat, stomach, front of the chest, legs, and underside of the tail.

CARE REQUIRED
The coat hardly needs any grooming. During moulting is best to use a comb with a double row of metal teeth to remove loose hairs from the under-layer of the coat. In common with other Arctic dogs, the hair of the Elkhound does not have the typical dog smell.

CHARACTER
This breed is equable, straight forward, intelligent and cunning, has a sense of humour, is sensitive to nuances in the voice, and is physically demanding of itself.

TRAINING
This dog needs a calm handler who exudes a natural authority. An equable and consistent manner of approach to their training is essential.

SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
The Elkhound gets on with other dogs even though its bark can have a frightening effect upon them. They are rather reserved with strangers and yet they are no watchdogs. Children and Elkhounds together do not usually cause any problems and the same applies to any animals present in and around the house.

EXERCISE
The Elkhound is a hunting dog through and through and is still used for this purpose to this day in its native country. Its task is to track large wild animals independently and bring them down. To do this, it searches large areas of terrain. This dog is really unsuitable as a pet in a busy urban environment. If it is allowed off the lead, the chance is that its hunting instincts will cause it to run away, with all the consequences that could follow. In wild countryside, the Elkhound will normally be constantly on the move. It verges on cruelty to animals to enclose such a dog and limit it to three short walks each day. From this it is clear that the Elkhound is only suitable for the few people who are able to hunt with it.

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The Anatolian is an ancient Turkish Livestock Guardian breed that originated some time before 2000 BC. The Anatolian Shepherd Dog is one of the most majestic and noble animals in the service of man; still being used in the rural districts of Turkey as the shepherds' indispensable companion and front line of defense of his livestock from predators. Without the aid of the Anatolian Shepherd Dog, the Turkish shepherd would be less able to defend his property and flock from wild animals. Such dogs are found from the Turkish Anatolian plateau right on through to Afghanistan. In Turkey today, the breed is known as Coban Kopegi (cho-bawn ko-pay) which translates to "Shepherd's Dog". He is a livestock guardian dog, living his life in constant association with his sheep or goats, and is accepted as a member of the flock. (He is NOT a herding dog). The extraordinary speed and agility of the Anatolian Shepherd Dog enable him to run down a predator with great efficiency. Turkish Shepherds equip some of their dogs with impressive iron-spiked collars as protection against attacking animals that grab for the throat. Historically, since Babylonian times, there is documented a breed of large strong dogs with a heavy head. Some spectacular depictions of the breed dating back to 2,000 BC can be seen on the well preserved bas-reliefs in the Assyrian Rooms of the British Museum in London. With the advent of the first domestic sheep, the dogs went from "hunter" to "protector". The book of Job, which dates back to at least 1,800 BC and is set in the region of Turkey, makes reference to the dogs with the flocks. Although Anatolians were brought to America as early as the 1950's, Anatolians were virtually unheard of in this country until the 1970s. That's when the Endangered Species Act triggered a search for a means of controlling predators without killing them. University and government agricultural researchers discovered primitive dogs like the Anatolian Shepherd Dog guarding flocks of sheep and goats in some of the world's oldest pastoral societies. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the dogs' mere presence was enough to keep carnivores away. Rarely is actual battle required, because even minor injuries can prove fatal for predators in the wild. That's fine with the Anatolians, who'd rather not fight - - it upsets their charges. An Anatolian's first defensive measure is visual deterrence. They simply stand and let themselves be seen. If that doesn't do the trick, intruders are greeted with a mild, throat-clearing sort of bark that will escalate, if necessary, to a bloodcurdling warning. That final warning is NOT an idle threat. With their legendary fearlessness, prodigious strength and cat-like agility they can drive off the largest of predators. Ironically, while the dogs protect livestock, they protect predators too by minimizing conflict with humans (as in the Cheetah Conservation Project in Nambibia, Africa). Today, several thousands of these dogs are defending America's pastures.
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