Icelandic Dogs
Below you will find all the dog breeds that originate from Iceland. Feel free to study the pictures, traits and history of the dogs of Iceland.
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Icelandic Dog, Islenskur Fjárhundur, Islandsk Farehond
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It was bred with some Icelandic dogs and possibly even a black and tan King Charles terrier to create the small herding dog we know today. Because of the scarceness of vegetation, the livestock was generally smaller on the Islands.
(Iceland Sheepdog) (Islandsk Farehond)(Friaar Dog) (Islenkur Fjárhundur) (Icelandic Dog) The Icelandic Sheepdog is a herding dog, with a confident bearing.
In most travel chronicles written about Iceland from this time until the 20th century, there are accounts of Icelandic dogs. The descriptions vary somewhat, but it is clear that a distict dog breed is being described.
" And finally in A Summer in Iceland, written by Sir Richard Burton in 1875, Burton wrote that he believed one of these Icelandic Dogs to be worth the same as a horse.
The purebred Icelandic sheepdog was again bordering extinction in the late 20th century and in 1969 the Icelandic Dog Breeder Association (HRFÍ) was established, which had among other aims to preserve the breed.
It's thought that invading Vikings brought the ancestors of this breed with them to Iceland in the ninth century. Thanks to the isolation of Iceland, today's Icelandic Sheepdogs--also called the Icelandic Spitz or Icelandic Dog--probably look a lot ...
The breed was almost wiped in the late 1880s, as dogs imported from abroad brought in canine distemper. The Icelandic dog Breeder Association was formed in 1969. This breed still exists in small numbers, but is gaining in popularity.
 See also: Icelandic Sheepdog, Spitz, Norwegian Buhund, Iceland Sheepdog, Distemper
  
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