My Icelandic sheepdogs

Mine islandske fårehunder januar 2008.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Islandsk
• fårehund
• icelandic
• sheepdog
• íslenska
• fjárhundsins

[glorp896]

i kept looking for more about the icelandic sheep dogs while taking a bus tour around the whole country... they make a bigger deal about their short viking horses. they aren't as dog crazy as we americans... I saw only a few ice. dog things in gift shops... and one great poster with many of them on it, professional, we asked to get it or something like it, but nothing turned up... they are very nice looking dogs, i wish they were more dog proud over there... it was nice to see the few we did

[lappevennen]

Yes, it is sad that they dont care aboute one of their biggest kultur! To me they said that know one wanted that "barking maniace"! But they are so sweet, and my dogs bark almost never...

[Acchilles1987]

Are there many in the US? Are they registered with UKC? Do they do agility, obedience, herding? Thanks.

[lappevennen]

Im not sure how many there is in us, but i have seen many homepages about them in us, so i guess there are some. They are registered.

I use my dogs in agility, an they are good. Herding is their natural thing to do. In norway i have seen some dogs in obedience.

[IIAndersII]

0:20 I didn´t know that a dog can have eyes like a porno star X3

[chizzywoo]

oooh what lovelylooking dogs!

[ilovebuildabear16]

They are so cute.

[glorp896]

If Olafsen was correct, it is possible that the so-called Hunting Dogs & Dwarf Dogs, which it is stated resemble the ordinary Danish Dog, became extinct, or almost extinct during the terrible catastrophes of the last half of the 18th Century. There were eruptions and earthquakes with an aftermath of famine & disease which reduced the population very greatly, & there are records showing that many thousands of horses died. It is possible that only a Fiaarhundur (Sheepdog) was able to survive.

[glorp896]

It is stated by two authors only, Eggett Olsfsen in 1744 and Joseph Banks in 1772, that there were three types of dogs in Iceland. The famous naturalist, Count de Buffon, who mentioned the Iceland Dog several times in volume V of the first French edition of his "Histoire Naturelle" which was published in 1755, does not state that there were more than one type of dog in Iceland.

[glorp896]

watch out for the lava

[meatballmur]

i have a iclandic too i live in ny. also i love mine

[valor374]

Yeah I have a Icelandic too. We got him from a breader up in Maine. We live in Brooklyn, New York but we constantly take him out to the country weather it is upstate new york, tha catskills, new jersey, or staten island. When he was younger he did agility as well which he was very very good at. But eventually a mistake was made where someone was holding the seesaw and they drop it with him on it and he has been a little spooked about agility after that. I must say he is quite the mountain dog!