If you cross them, you don’t get a gray one.
The white one is a Swedish white elkhound (Jämthund) and the black one is a Norwegian black elkhound (Norsk elghund sort). These dogs were all one interbreeding landrace that has since split into separate breeds.
beautiful, beautiful dogs!
what is the prevalence of Jämthund in the US?
I can’t tell you where you can get Jämthund, gray or white, but I do know where you can get plenty of black Norwegian elkhounds. In my part of West Virginia, they are relatively common as hunting dogs.
These elkhounds have been bred to bark. That means they really will bark, and it is loud. And they will do it a lot.
This is the spitz breed I know the best. I grew up around them.
Id like to say that this is the first blog that I have ever attempted to participate in…..
I just lost my Norwegian Elkhound/German Shepard mix of 13yrs (She looked like a giant Black Norwegian Elkhound)
Some friends in WV got her years ago, but I cant seem to get into contact with them to see if they could find another.
If You Retrieverman, know of anyone I could possibly contact to find this type of dog, I’d owe you a great debt of gratitude.
Allen
Crayola school of color mixing. :c)
Nice looking dogs…
The Norwegian Elkhound is used for hunting moose. They basically herd them into position for the hunter to shoot… From what I know moose can be like cattle and walk toward a hunter while they are shooting seemingly oblivious to the gun.
The elkhound is also used to hunt bear. How is that done? Sounds like the elkhound has to be pretty tough to help hunt out a bear… got footage?
Very cool looking the black and white together…
Wow, I’ve never seen Black Elkhounds in the U. S., although I have seen several more typical grays being used as quite competent squirrel dogs. They are such super all-around dogs, I’m very suprised they haven’t gone through a “fad” phase in this country(and let’s hope it stays that way!).
In WV, they were THE squirrel and varmint dog. The black ones are still around, but they have been interbred with grays a lot.
I was raised by one that was half black-half gray.
I can believe it. My (I, think, mix) catches squirrels sometimes. After being a stray out in Retrieverman’s neck of the woods, he’s now a city slicker who does mostly leash walks (though runs around a local park off-leash with his buds) and is still not uninterested in fetching his own dinner. He caught a pigeon out of the air – when on a regular 6’ leash – once. Admittedly, urban wildlife might not be as fleet of foot as he was pretty skinny when I took him in.
Are these the type of dogs that are said to a part of the possible outcross for the Silver Labs?
The typical gray elkhounds supposedly are.