NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS
I am sure you know that I like writing about things owners do with their Buhunds, I recently received the following from Jasmine Freeborn.
“Around mid-October, I saw a post on Instagram promoting the Samaritans campaign of ‘Walk 50 miles with your dog in November’, as someone who is not a fan of the darker and colder months, I thought this would be a great opportunity to force myself out of the house and get my Buhunds walking, as well as a chance to raise money for a well deserving charity. Tissy (Leggatts Voulez Vous) is even less of a fan of poor weather than I am, so had to be carried to the park on several occasions in order to complete a lap! I feel she needs to read up on the breed standard, as it says ‘fearless, brave, and energetic’ which are qualities she appears to be lacking certainly when it is raining! I walk Tissy and Noodle (Ch Leggaatts Jive Talkin) separately, as they like to encourage each other to misbehave, and I enjoy having a little one-on-one time with both of them. Our non Buhund is also taking part in the campaign, although as he is 15, his contributions are limited to 200m bursts! We have currently walked 15 miles and have raised £100! If you would like to sponsor us, please find us at @twobuhsandabear on Instagram.
Labradors are gundogs and I expect most of us think that they like swimming, probably because the breed was developed in the UK from St John’s water dogs imported from the Labrador region of Canada ,so I was amused to see a video on Face Book of Lucy Beatrice’s Zuki (Leggatts Fly Like An Eagle ) happily swimming around a very large pond with a Labrador paddling and just watching with obviously no intention of going in any further! I know not all Buhunds like swimming but all mine have loved water and swimming. In the US some Buhunds do Dock Diving a sport where the dogs compete by leaping off a dock into water aiming for distance or height.
Sarah Stonton was out and about competing in a L4 SWUK trial Pixie aka Wheatshade Dreamer on November 16th at Woofs & Whiffs Scent Club in Sutton Bedfordshire.
By the time you read these notes entries for the last Ch show of the year for the breed, LKA will have closed, so onto 2026 with Manchester being the first Ch show of the year for us held at its now established home of Stafford County Show Ground, Pastoral day is Sunday 12th January. Entries do close though on 16th December. Our judge is Richard Kinsey who will be giving CCs in the breed for the first time, he also gives CCs in 1 Hound breed ,1 Gundog 2 Utility 19 Working and 18 Pastoral breeds and has judged all over Europe and the Baltic Countries.
Margaret Deuchar margaretdeuchar@gmail.com
Any views expressed in Margaret’s Breed Notes are hers and hers alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Norwegian Buhund Club of the UK