Historical Elkhound Material

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Heritage, origins, old lines, and archival comparisons.

Historical Elkhound Material, Norwegian Elkhound

Purebred or Full Blood What’s the Difference

In it’s simplest form, the answer is as follows: Purebred means to breed a selected and controlled group of genetics confined to a group. No breeding outside the confined group. Limited Genetics only to what is in the group. Full Blood means to use all known and previously utilized genetics from the broadest possible genetic...

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Historical Elkhound Material

Nonsense Articles About Bears and Dogs

Wow, there is so much nonsense written about bears and dogs that it blows my mind. If I had my way, I would remove 99% of the crap articles out there on this subject. Total idiots talking about bears and dogs is all I see. Not one of them is qualified in any way to …...

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Genetics and Lineage, Historical Elkhound Material

Original Elkhounds from 1924 to 2024

Somewhere in around the 1924 time frame the big greys, original Elghund hunting dogs, now known as Swedish Elkhounds or Jämthunds were starting to disappear. The breeders in certain areas had been keeping these strains alive and this was a purely working family dog at that time. They did not “Call them Swedish Elkhounds” nor...

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