History

The Finnish Spitz is probably out of a nordic breed that most likely originate from the russian breed Laika. It presumably came to Finland with the finnish-ugrish people that hunted for a living. The finnish-ugrish hunters used in an early era different types of ancient spitzes as hunting-dogs. Some close related breeds are Norrbottenspets and Norweigan elkhound.

As early as 1892 the Finnish Spitz was accepted as a breed (or Finnish Birddog as the breed was called until 1897) in Finland, and the Finnish Spitz was named as the National Dog of Finland in 1979. In 1967 Sweden accepted the breed. Before it was accepted, the Finnish Spitz and the Norrbottenspets was considered to be of the same breed; Nordic Spitz, becuse of the similarity in appearence and the way they hunted.