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Finnish Spitz Did You Know?


  • The Finnish Spitz is AKC's 130th breed.


  • Suomenpystrykorva, the Finnish Cock-Eared Dog, was known in earlier times as the Finnish Barking Birddog and is now called the Finnish Spitz.


  • The Finnish Spitz is, not surprisingly, the national dog of Finland.


  • The history of spitz-type dogs that make up the Finnish Spitz's ancestry traces back several thousand years.


  • By 1880, Finnish Spitzes had been so interbred that the original Finnish Spitz became nearly extinct.


  • The first English Spitzes arrived in England in 1927.


  • The Finnish Spitz Club of America was founded in 1975.
   
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