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Norwegian Buhund a Greatly Under Rated Dog Breed
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The Norwegian Buhund is a spitz type breed. It makes an excellent house-dog and although their warning bark will deter unwelcome visitors despite their relatively small size, they are never aggressive In Norwegian, hund means dog but refers to herding, and the breed is really good at its other tasks as well.
The Breed Standard calls for a height of 17¾" with the females slightly smaller, and although they are lightly built they are very solid. For centuries the Buhund was used as a watchdog on farms in Norway and as herding dog for the livestock and when breeding sheep became common, due to the changes in the climate in the 1400-years, especially in Western Norway, the farmers needed a sheep-dog. These dogs are just waiting for exercise, training and challenges on their intelligence every day. Give them that and you will have an enormously eager and friendly trainable dog for a pet.
The Norwegian Buhund makes an excellent house-dog and their warning bark will deter unwelcome visitors despite their relatively small size. Likewise, while a Buhund will be quite happy to live part of his day in a kennel and run, if he does not receive sufficient attention he will simply bark at anything and nothing.
The propensity for this breed to bark is a disadvantage to some with a house close to neighbours, but these dogs are so readily trainable that with suitable incentives this can be controlled. If you have already decided that the Norwegian Buhund is the dog for you, it may be because you know somebody who owns one, in which case you should already have a good idea of the type of dog you would be buying.
Cataracts can occur in this breed, however, in most cases the dog's sight is only minimally affected, if at all, but as it is possible that a dog with very small cataracts can produce puppies which are far more seriously affected, no Buhund with cataracts should ever be bred from.
During shearing the breed can and does work in the same way as the Kelpie. The name "buhund" simply means "cattle dog," as it was used for herding and guarding the cattle.
The Norwegian Buhund is an almost middle-sized typical Nordic Spitz dog. In newer time Buhunds, together with Norwegian Lundehunds, have been involved with the Why this breed is not more popular we don’t know but we certainly recommend it.
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