- Pure white, always with well defined and well distributed patches with the ideal colour that is in all nuances of red and yellow.
- Patches on body should be fairly big.
- Colour should cover the sides of head and ears.
- Permissible: Patches in black, any nuance of fawn or agouti but the ideal colours are always to be
About the Norrbottenspitz
Origin: SwedenNorrbottenspitz
- FCI status
- Recognised by FCI
- FCI group
- Spitz and primitive types
- Origin
- Sweden
- Also called
- Spitz de Norrbotten
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What the breed standard says
- Bred for
- Hunting dog
- Behaviour and temperament
“In its capacity as hunting dog the breed should be attentive and bold. It is a keen, lively, self confident dog with a kind disposition. Although the breed is mainly used for hunting large forest grouse (caper-caillie and black grouse) it is still capable of hunting fur game as well as baying elk”
Quoted from FCI standard n°276. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Characteristics
- Size
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- Exercise needsRead from what the breed was bred to do, in the registry’s own words: “Hunting dog” That is a working purpose, not a measured exercise requirement — an individual dog’s needs depend on its age, health and household.
- 4 of 5
- Easy to train
- —
- Amount of shedding
- 4 of 5
- Grooming needs
- 2 of 5
- Good with children
- —
- Cost to keep
- —
- Tolerates being alone
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- Intelligence
- —
- Health of breed
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Pros & cons for the Norrbottenspitz
What you get with the Norrbottenspitz
- Purpose stated in the standard: “Hunting dog”
- The standard describes the breed as: “In its capacity as hunting dog the breed should be attentive and bold”
- Low grooming needs, fitting for a busy owner — the coat is “Undercoat fine and dense, guardhair hard, short and straight.”
What you are taking on
Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.
Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. FCI breed standard. One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.
Characteristics
FCI standard · Norrbottenspitz
Coat and colour
As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.
Coat
Double coat.
Undercoat fine and dense, guardhair hard, short and straight.
Topcoat rather close laying with different lengths
shortest on nose bridge, top of skull, ears and front of legs.
Longest on neck, backside of thighs and under side of tail
Colour
- Preferred
- Permissible
- Undesirable
- Disqualifying
Preferred, permissible, undesirable and disqualifying are FCI’s own words about the breed. They describe what the standard asks for — not an assessment of any individual dog, and not ours.
Shortened from FCI standard n°276 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.
What the standard penalises
What a judge marks the Norrbottenspitz down for, and what puts one out of the ring, in the registry’s own words. This describes the breed standard — it is not a checklist for the animal in front of you, and a pet with a disqualifying fault is an unshowable dog rather than an unhealthy one.
Severe faults
Marked heavily against a specimen in the ring.
- Flesh coloured or liver brown nose.
- Missing teeth, except P1.
- Tan-markings.
- Roaning or ticking
Disqualifying faults
Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.
- Stumpy tail
Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Norrbottenspitz in general; any individual animal can differ.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Norrbottenspitz
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Norrbottenspitz on this platform yet. That is a gap in our records, not a clean bill of health — ask the breeder which hereditary conditions their lines are tested for, and ask to see the results for both parents, dated and from a named laboratory.
Gallery
No photographs yet
This is where Norrbottenspitz owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.
A photograph in a pet profile stays private to its owner. We will not put one here unless they ask us to.
Puppies
No puppies listed right now
No Norrbottenspitz breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.