Karelian Bear Dog

Karelian Bear Dogs have been known to hold an animal at bay for a very long time .

The Karelian Bear Dog are often naturally aggressive towards other dogs.

Some, like the Karelian Bear Dog, are impossible to train as companion dogs.

The Karelian Bear Dog was used mainly for hunting small fur-bearing animals, such as squirrels and marten.

Karelian Bear Dogs are very territorial and will alert their handler to the presence of any strangers or other animals nearby that they do not know.

It is believed that these dogs were the result of a cross between the Karelian Bear Dog and the reindeer dogs, and had short hair.

It is the common name for Tsarshadow's Rainbow Viking, a Karelian Bear Dog.

Although rare, bobtails do occur naturally, as in the Finnish Spitz and Karelian Bear Dog.

The breed was a few of the herding dogs crossed with black and white Karelian Bear Dogs, resulting in a short-coated dog.

Larger breeds such as the Karelian Bear Dog and the Norwegian Elkhound were used for hunting large animals like moose and elk.

The Karelian Bear Dog (KBD) is a Finnish or Karelian breed of dog.

Karelian Bear Dogs have been used for bear control at Yosemite and Glacier National Parks, and with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The larger and more powerful breeds such as the Karelian Bear Dog and the Norwegian Elkhound were used for game (food) hunting, helping humans kill moose and brown bear.

According to archeological records, dogs very similar to the modern Russo-European Laika and the Karelian Bear Dog existed in northeastern Europe and Scandinavia since Neolithic times.

Like the Norwegian Elkhound, the Karelian Bear Dog was also used in hunting moose, lynx, wolf and, as its name would suggest, hunting the Eurasian Brown Bear.

He works with the Wind Rivers Bear Institute, a Utah-based nonprofit organization that originated the use of Finnish-bred Karelian bear dogs as yelping teaching assistants in "averse conditioning" for grizzlies.

Purportedly, several attempts were made to catch Bruno alive, assisted by a team of Finnish bear hunters using five dogs (which were described in the press as either Karelian Bear Dogs or Elkhounds).

However, popularity did not die for the longer-haired breed, which was ranked the sixth most popular companion animal in Finland, ahead of the Finnish Spitz (ranked ten), and the Karelian Bear Dog (ranked 17).

The difference in size among the Scandinavian Hunting Breeds (Karelian Bear Dog, Finnish Spitz, and Norrbottenspets) promoted by the Finnish Spitz Club (SPJ) is distinct.