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The Karelo-Finnish Laika is a hunting dog breed from the Karelia area of Russia. It is sometimes referred to as a Finnish Spitz by the Finnish Kennel Club and by the Russian Kennel Federation. ==Origin== During the 1930s and 1940s a government kennel near Medvezhyergorsk raised pure Spitzes. Many of these dogs were lost during World War II and there were only twenty four of these registered dogs in Petrozavodsk at one time. The breed was revived in 1953 when Russian cynologists imported three Finnish Spitzes from Finland and bred these three dogs with some of the small red-coated Spitzes that were left in southern Karelia area and in the northern provinces of Russia. There were also dogs in Leningrad that were very good at hunting that looked a lot like the Finnish Spitzes. These dogs became the Karelo-Finnish Laika breed. While being a separate breed, the Karelo-Finnish Laika is very similar to its ancestor the Finnish Spitz, which was one of the main reasons people originally registered the breeds as one. Some of the minor differences between the breeds include different variations of the red coat color, the curving of the tail and the closeness of the body guard hair. There were about two hundred of these Karelo-Finnish Laikas in Moscow by 1970. They were the smallest of the Laika family and were used for hunting in Russia.〔Hunting Laika Breeds of Russia. N.p., 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2012. In 2006, the Finnish Kennel Club and Russian Kennel Federation decided to include the Karelo-Finnish Laika within the Finnish Spitz breed. This was due to improve the gene pools of both breeds: for example, the Finnish Spitz often suffered from epilepsy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karelo-Finnish Laika」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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