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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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