More side-registry project dogs will continue to be born and more will be evaluated for full registry status, but I want to emphasize how absolutely massive it is to have 3 new genetic sources in a breed where the entire population goes back to this:
The Lundehund outcross project is going strong, and the first 2nd generation Norrbotten-outcross was born last week! A perfect litter of two males and two females, all healthy and growing.
The project is being managed by the Norwegian Lundehund club in collaboration with NKK, N.University of Life Sciences, N. Genetic Resource center, and NordGen. It started in 2013.
The stud book was officially opened to project offspring in January '23 after a membership vote. To achieve registration, project dogs must pass an evaluation by a specialist judge proving that they have all of the characteristics of a Lundehund, and no faults foreign to the breed. So far, three 3rd generation dogs have cleared the hurdle - two with Buhund ancestry (different combinations) and one with Icelandic sheepdog. Two of these dogs have already sired 5 fully registered (and by all accounts purebred) litters of between 3 and 5 puppies - in a breed where litter average is 2.75 and 25% are singletons.
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The Lundehund outcross project is going strong, and the first 2nd generation Norrbotten-outcross was born last week! A perfect litter of two males and two females, all healthy and growing.
The project is being managed by the Norwegian Lundehund club in collaboration with NKK, N.University of Life Sciences, N. Genetic Resource center, and NordGen. It started in 2013.
The stud book was officially opened to project offspring in January '23 after a membership vote. To achieve registration, project dogs must pass an evaluation by a specialist judge proving that they have all of the characteristics of a Lundehund, and no faults foreign to the breed. So far, three 3rd generation dogs have cleared the hurdle - two with Buhund ancestry (different combinations) and one with Icelandic sheepdog. Two of these dogs have already sired 5 fully registered (and by all accounts purebred) litters of between 3 and 5 puppies - in a breed where litter average is 2.75 and 25% are singletons.
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I know you said awhile back that Luna was a little bit different after surgery. She’s always been my favorite of the gang (maybe because I started following you way back in 2016, when she was a puppy), do you still think it’s affected her? Your post about her coat brought it to mind
2020 was a really rough year for Luna. Between the initial slip that uncovered her PL issues and the 2nd surgery being pushed back due to covid, she spent most of the year under some form of pain management and rehab. I really can't find a better word for it than traumatization. Habits she picked up during this will reappear from time to time, she refuses and panics on a lot of types of flooring. I don't think she'll ever be completely rid of that. And it aged her - she went from being an active and cheerful youngster to a wary couch potato in just a few months.
You know what's really helped, though? This thing:
Since Melis came along, Luna has been doing much better. She communicates clearer, she's less hesitant, she's more active and runs (!) like she hasn't in years. I don't think she'll fully get over the floor issues, but between the Great Slip and Melis coming home, Luna had to be carried through the hallway to the bedroom - she wouldn't even set foot there. Now she puts herself to bed every night and walks out on her own every morning.
She's not 100% back to exactly how she was before, but she's a lot closer now to the dog she would've been if the knees hadn't caused problems. And although little sisters can be real pests sometimes, she's a very happy dog.
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Lunert had her first surgery in January 2020, second in June 2020, and I posted this in October of that year. It's now March 2024, and her recent sheds have been unproblematic. It took approx. ~3.5 years for all the hairs that had been cut to pass through their growth cycle and be replaced with unaltered, functional coat - but it eventually did, thankfully!
Again, I'm not pointing fingers and telling people how to groom their dogs, it's none of my business, not all coat is functional to begin with, etc. But it has been interesting to see Luna's progress and I think maybe it can shed* some light on what the regrowth process can look like on a spitz-type breed
on coat texture
Here I am! Back on my bullshit about coat texture and function and other things that are obvious to the average dog owner but still exceedingly interesting to me.
Because I, friends, I just brushed out the spitz and I now have an acute understanding of why people who start shaving their double-coated dogs keep shaving their double-coated dogs.
Luna had her leg shaved on June 28th, two and a half months ago now, and it’s growing out nicely. She no longer looks like she lost a fight with a lawnmower.
The texture, however, is a nightmare. Luna is normally low-maintenance for such a heavy coated dog, and requires a brushthrough about once a month in the non-shedding season and baths maybe twice a year (unless she rolls in deer poop which.. happens.)
This is the texture of her regular coat (right side loin):
And below is the texture of her recently shaved left thigh. Length is getting closer to what it was originally but it feels like steel wool, and left unattended it compacts to a point where I can’t get a regular comb through it. I spent as long brushing out that one thigh as the entire rest of the dog.
Both picures taken within minutes of putting down the brush.
Note that I’m not here for (another) shitstorm shaming those who shave a dog with dysfunctional coat, just noting how senselessly annoying it is to grow a good coat back out post-shave.
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parent hath returned from land of tulips... bearing trojgifts
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Anyone do clicker training with their dog? Looking for some resources to get started with that, I think Belle would benefit greatly from it.
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i’m bored and wanna hear people talk about their favorite dogs so..
Dogblr, what are the top 5 breeds you are currently most interested in owning? Doesn’t have to be in any particular order! I’ll go first:
1.) Boykin Spaniel
2.) Field Spaniel
3.) Bracco Italiano
4.) English Cocker Spaniel
5.) Working Clumber Spaniel
Bonus points if you add why these particular breeds appeal to you!
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what the hell is this.
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personally i dont want to know where people think i'm from because at some point someone said "wyoming" and i havent decided how i feel about it yet. this was years ago
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the girls are going to their respective dogsitters tomorrow afternoon and troj is going to my mum's which is great and sparty is going to their self-appointed dog walker who HAS CATS and im very jealous
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if i tried hard enough i think i could get her in front of around 14 but no one wants to see that
considering travelling in a different direction for a couple though. staying in the same region you kinda end up showing against the same dogs over and over - at this point there's two or three that we've gone against 7-8 times and it feels the judges are just shuffling us around :')
If everything goes to plan and the animal stays in coat when she needs to, i think we could get Troj in front of 8 judges this year. Maybe 9 if we keep going until september.
Not that we're going there to get results, but god its so exhausting and fun
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if you just squint really hard it kinda looks like spring
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torn between being emotional about the grey hairs on her head, or about the sunlight on her eartips
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for all of my dog keeping life, i've fed right before bedtime. i think it's a holdover from when sparty was a puppy, and it stuck because they're cuddly when they're full so we all curl up in bed and go mrrrrp
but at some point i started moving it up, and now they usually get food when we come in for the night, 8-9pm or so usually.
Troja finds this Upsetting. not that she doesn't eat, she loves her dinner, but now that there's a Dinner Meal there's not a Bedtime Meal and so according to Troj, she's -1 meal
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maxi midi mini
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Geranium sylvaticum
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when the dumbass with the camera is taking so long you start to worry you'll starve to death before the treat shows up
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