ICELAND DOG
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COUNTRY: Iceland
WEIGHT: 20-30 pounds
HEIGHT: 12-16 inches
COAT: Thick and coarse
COLOR: Wheaten, black, wolf sable, "dirty"
OTHER NAMES: Icelandic Sheepdog, Iceland Spitz
REGISTRY: FCI
GROUP: Northern
WEIGHT: 20-30 pounds
HEIGHT: 12-16 inches
COAT: Thick and coarse
COLOR: Wheaten, black, wolf sable, "dirty"
OTHER NAMES: Icelandic Sheepdog, Iceland Spitz
REGISTRY: FCI
GROUP: Northern
The Icelandic Shepherd is the unique native dog of Iceland. He was taken to this place by the first vikincos colonists (between the years 874 and 930 D.C.)
This dog and its method to work adapted to the local land, the forms of culture and the hard fight by the survival of the Icelandic population during centuries, doing it essential in the collection of cattle in the farms.
The popularity of the Icelander has increased in the last decades and although the race continues being little in númer, no longer it is considered in extinction danger. It is very probable that the Icelander descends from dogs introduced by the Scandinavian colonists and probably is relative of the Norwegian Buhund.
