Norwegian Elkhound

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Norwegian Elkhound, Preservation Breeding

Norwegian Elkhounds Endangered, Why?

What’s the reason why the Norwegian Elkhound is now endangered in North America? What is the status of the genetic pool and what happened? The gene pool for the Norwegian Elkhound in North America is very small right now, with very few lineages diverse. Diverse means simply that they are “not related” to each other,...

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Norwegian Elkhound

Preservation Breeding in Norwegian Elkhounds

At Kamia Kennels Preservation breeding of Norwegian Elkhounds focuses on maintaining the breed’s ancient, functional, and instinctive traits, particularly by utilizing diverse, historic bloodlines and minimizing inbreeding altogether, in direct response to declining Norwegian Elkhound breed numbers. Key efforts by Kamia Kennels is...

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Norwegian Elkhound, Preservation Breeding

Caesar – Norwegian Elkhound Preservation Male

Heather recently sent me this terrific update on Caesar, her Kamia Kennels Norwegian Elkhound male. She has been working him and training and developing this Rock Star into an incredible young male. He is one of the Famous Karu son’s and Willow was his famous mother. This is old world lineage Norwegian Elkhound and Heather …...

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