Advantages of membership

 

The Spitz Club of Finland is a large club for Finnish hunting breeds. There are more than 7, 000 hunting and show members. The Club was founded in 1938, although show and trial competitions had already been held in the previous century. In 1889 the first Finnish Spitz shows were held, organised by the Finnish Kennel Club.

 

The Spitz Club of Finland (Suomen Pystykorvajärjestö - Finska Spetsklubben ry) is responsible for preserving, caring for and developing these, Finland's national treasures.

 

These national treasures, the Finnish Spitz, Karelian Bear Dog and Nordic Spitz are a rarity in that they have developed naturally without any human influence in their breeding or cross breeding.

 

The main board of the Spitz Breeds of Finland Club holds an AGM, which selects a Chairman annually and a board consisting of 8 members whose term of office is 3 years and who are drawn from the four areas of Finland as defined by the Club for its events. There are sub-committees dealing with different matters and as well as a sub-committee for each of the three breeds, dealing with improvement of the state of the breed. . This means an overall breeding advice (health, hunting properties, breed type, etc) breed advice and finding a puppy.

 

Finnish Spitz association dues for 2011 are:

 

Annual subscription	22 €
Family member	14 €	(does not include the Club magazine)
Group (Club) membership	29 €

 

Why join? What are the advantages of membership?

 

Advantages of membership include:

Puppy Membership
If a breeder proposes and pays for one of their puppy owners who is not already a Club member, they can join as an annual member at the ‘puppy owner price'. I year's subscription is 10 €. Puppy owners should be reported to the breed secretary by e-mail, 'phone or letter all at the same time.

 

Spitz newsletter
For their subscription, members receive Pystykorva magazine six times a year. The magazine's archives since 2002 are also available to browse on pdf. The magazine deals with all the important and topical issues of our three breeds, that is the Finnish Spitz, Karelian Bear Dog and Nordic Spitz.
The magazine contains information on Champions, a variety of statistics, articles and opinions and the most important Trials.

Puppy Enquiries
Members may, if they wish, give information on their new litters free of charge to the puppy advisors. The puppy advisors let it be known where there are puppies available for sale. Puppy enquiries may also been made by internet on the "pentupörssiin" pages.

 

Further puppy advice is in the Pystykorva and Metsästäjä magazines as well as on the respective web pages for karjalankarhukoira, suomenpystykorva and pohjanpystykorva.

 

Breeding Advice
Members may request a recommendation for a stud dog to use with their bitch and breeding advisors will suggest in writing a limited number of males, which they feel would suit that particular bitch.

These recommendations have already been calculated as regards breeding co-efficients and are also designed to take into account the possible elimination of inherited diseases.

 

Breeding

The breed committee puts information on the breeds, including health information and current data on to these pages. Learn more about karjalankarhukoiran- (Karelian Bear Dog) suomenpystykorvan- (Finnish Spitz) and pojanpystykorvan (Nordic Spitz) on their breed pages.

 

Internet Services
The Club has its own web site at www.spj.fi. The association also maintains a database koiratietokantoja (dog data base) for breeders. The Club's items for sale can be found at www.haukku.net.

 

The internet pages contain as much information as possible about our breeds from around the world both for devotees of the breed and for those with a more casual interest (with some pages also in Swedish and English).

 

Yearbooks containing Trial and Show Results
Yearbooks are published every spring giving all the previous year's bird and elk trial results as well as dog show results.

 

These can be ordered from the show tuotekaupasta.